Well, I’ve had my little iPod for a few months now. So naturally, I’m sick of it and I want a new mp3 player. The nano is great player, taken by itself; throw in iTunes, however, and it really causes me headaches. For one thing, all my media is stored on a Windows Media Center 2005 PC, so synchronizing involved making a second music library just for the iPod so iTunes wouldn’t frag my current library. Additionally, the iTunes interface really blows compared to WMP10, in my humble opinion. It’s a pain to cusomtize tags, make playlists, and organize music. It’s the Playskool effect - Apple tries to make things too easy by taking away control.
Anyway, check back over the next week or so for a report on the new Zen Vision:M, and we’ll see if I like it any better than I liked my last Zen.
I told you iTunes was the work of Satan, but noooo…. you wouldn’t beleive me.
If it wasn’t for the fact that you won your iPod I would have had to kill you.
RockBox Rules!!!
WHOA PONY… Let’s simmer down for just a second.
I have to agree that iTunes is kind of a pain in the ass… using 3rd party open source software could be used to allow more control, but it’s still a pain in the ass.
I have all of my music organized neatly on my external hard drive and haven’t had a problem with either iTunes or WMP accessing it. iTunes knows who’s boss, so it doesn’t eff my files.
I wouldn’t go as far as saying that iTunes was the work of Satan. Mike told me that the ipod was the work of satan once… I don’t believe that. I think the iPod and iTunes are the work of Satan’s 3rd cousin, Craig.
Even so… Craig is still EVIL!!!!
And how do you figure that RockBox (3rd party open source software) is a pain in the ass? Have you used it yet?
I just flashed the good old iRiver iHP-140 with the latest RockBox build and it works like a champ. Install was a breeze and it’s tons better than the crappy iRiver firmware.
In fact… I’ll write a post/review outlining the many advantages soon.
So there!
i have the creative zen vision:m and i totally love it. if you are wanting to copy your dvds(unprotected) to your zen i would highly suggest AutoGK it is a great program. So easy to use and it only took me a few hours to have the whole movie on my zen…plus it rips the movies in XviD or DivX. Can;t get better than that. i got the green one. i am not a huge ipod fan.