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[vansmack]

Originally posted by Deepak Chopra:
  i)You can't drag and drop music
 
 Why would you want to? Actually it is as simple as drag and drop in itunes if you want it to be
 

Wow.  I'm shocked.  You have to use an Apple service (iTunes) to get full advantage of an Apple product (iPod)?  It will spell the doom someday no matter how many gizmos they add to the iPod...but will it be the iPod or iTunes that goes down?
 
 I have three Mp3 players, all different brands, only one of which is a hard drive based unit (the others are flash), and all three sync up with varying music stores/rippers/library software, and all three act as a hard drive so I can add/drop/copy to any computer using a standard USB 2.0 cable.
 
 Why can't the iPod just play along?  The market will kill one or the other.  Could you imagine having to buy a Tower Records player to play CD's you buy from Tower, but then not being able to play CD's you buy from Virgin?  It would never happen.  Why this idea has lasted as long as it has, I will never know, but I'm going to go with Marketing right now.  That is something Apple has been great at, despite it's continuous poor business plans.

[godsshoeshine]

so...don't lose shit. not too hard

[markie]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Why can't the iPod just play along?  

I imagine its mostly due to the itunes store.
 
 Beside your point is somewhat dull as you can rip whatever CDs you want. And if you have a track as an MP3 or AAC you can pretty easily import it into itunes.
 
 If you naysayers had actually enjoyed the beauty of sex, I mean the ipod/itunes/store integration first hand you would realise that all of these problems you are imagining, have no bearing.
 
 This debate is so dull.

[godsshoeshine]

not wanting to use itunes is just crazy, anyway

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Deepak Chopra:
  Beside your point is somewhat dull as you can rip whatever CDs you want. And if you have a track as an MP3 or AAC you can pretty easily import it into itunes.
 
 

So what if I'm not at home, I see a legal downloadable song on the net while I'm at my buddy's house or at my folks house, who don't have iTunes installed.  Why can't I just download the song and drag it onto the iPod as if it were a hard drive and listen to the song on my commute back?  I shouldn't be dependent on having itunes installed to add a song to my iPod.  I shouldn't have to have a special cable - anybody with a digital camera or any type of Mp3 player or USB device has a USB cable I can use.
 
 The argument is not dull, you just don't have any answers so you mock instead.

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Why can't I just download the song and drag it onto the iPod as if it were a hard drive and listen to the song on my commute back?  

riaa?

[markie]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 

So what if I'm not at home, I see a legal downloadable song on the net while I'm at my buddy's house or at my folks house, who don't have iTunes installed.  Why can't I just download the song and drag it onto the iPod as if it were a hard drive and listen to the song on my commute back?  I shouldn't be dependent on having itunes installed to add a song to my iPod.  I shouldn't have to have a special cable - anybody with a digital camera or any type of Mp3 player or USB device has a USB cable I can use.
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 I dont have any buddys so that situation has never arisen.
 
 This is a different argument and better than the other ones. It is at least legitimate.
 
 Still how often is this a real issue? If it is often clearly you are better off with a different player. But I bet for most people the ease of the i world is more of an advantage.
 
 I have no reason why the ipod will not let you do that, I guess it is preventing it is the easiest way of stopping the ipod being used as a music distribution device. Which would clearly not go down well with the itunes store.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Why can't I just download the song and drag it onto the iPod as if it were a hard drive and listen to the song on my commute back?  

riaa? [/b]

Not all downloads are illegal.  
 
 There are plenty of free songs available from artists site.  There are plenty of downloads from other music stores that I purchase that I would have to have iTunes for to transfer on my iPod, despite the fact that I purchased them from another music store.

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[godsshoeshine]

true, not all downloads are illegal, but cmon. if i'm giving my buddy a song, i'm illegally giving him the whole album. and everyone i know uses itunes anyway

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Deepak Chopra:
  Still how often is this a real issue?

More often then you think, especially if you are a frequent traveler or live in a big city and frequent coffee shops, where you can get a lot of cool legal stuff from people.
 
 This happened twice on my recent 5 day trip to DC, and fortunately for my buddy who's iPod wasn't able to copy a movie that my friend had made, my Napster player was, even though I didn't bring my cable.  I ended up having to burn him a copy when we returned, as well as three demo tracks from my friends band.  How 1990's that was...

[godsshoeshine]

so...if you want to copy movies, you should get something other than a ipod. i already have a portable harddrive and a laptop, i want a mp3 player

[vansmack]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  so...if you want to copy movies, you should get something other than a ipod. i already have a portable harddrive and a laptop, i want a mp3 player

You carry that portable HD around with you often?  I'm guessing no.  So when you have a 20GB hard drive on you that you do carry around, why can't it be flexible?  I should be able to use a 20Gb device to do both, if I so choose.  You may choose not to do that, and a lot of people do, but I should at least have the option, because, after all, I am the consumer and I spent the money on the product.
 
 Why do I need to carry around a mini-hard drive and an MP3 player, when I have 8 GB of free space on my Mp3 player?  I shouldn't, and the iPod is the only HD based player I have seen with these limitations.  And the reason is iTunes.

[godsshoeshine]

if i'm going to the coffee shop with wifi i bring the laptop. if i have an mp3 player its filled to the max

[godsshoeshine]

and can't you store a .mov file on an ipod if you select 'use ipod as a storage device'?