[Tfug] iPods

[Bexley Hall]

> In the end, you will fall to the dark side...

No, I'll just keep living with the Shuffle!  ;-)
(won't be a problem as I can't ever imagine walking
5 or 6 hours at a time!  :-/ )

> Give in, and save your self the pain.
> 
> Will
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using an iPod shuffle (?) for my daily walks.
> It's nice and tiny.  No display to deal with (I'm
> *walking*, not "picking out musical selections!).
> Lightweight so I can just set it on my shoulder under 
> my shirt (in case I don't have a shirt pocket).
> 
> *And*, its easy to manage:  copy files onto it
> as a disk drive, etc.  I think it holds about 5 or
> 10 albums (depending on bit rate) which is fine
> as an album (start to finish) tends to take just about
> as much time as one of my walks (30 - 40 minutes).
> As such, I can listen to everything on the device
> in about a week (two walks per day) without feeling
> like I am listening to the same music over and over 
> again...
> 
> I've now got an old iPod "mini" that I'm considering
> using (though it is considerably larger and heavier so
> it might not fit the bill... I guess the new nano's
> are probably a better choice).
> 
> But, I despise iTunes (== evil).  And, the mini is
> so much larger than the shuffle (capacity wise) that I
> will need a more sophisticated way of managing the music
> on it.
> 
> So, I was going to hack together a little application
> to reside *on* the iPod that I can "run from DOS" to
> massage my music collection.  A mini-iTunes, so to
> speak (though in a few dozen KB instead of a few dozen
> MB!).
> 
> (whew)  With all that as background, does anyone know
> if
> the larger iPods (larger than the shuffle, that is) can
> be made to look like a dumb disk ("mass storage device")?
> Or, is this something that just works with the shuffle's?
> 
> 
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