iPod and Home Stereo

[macky]

As far as mp3 players go... I own 2 ipods, a Dell mp3 player and an Archos mp3 player. I personally hate itunes (required to put music on an ipod) and love the fact that with the 2 players I can just drag and drop file onto it. But, despite that con (itunes) the ipods sound way better that the other 2 players, even with the same exact files. I would recommend the ipod.

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by macky

As far as mp3 players go... I own 2 ipods, a Dell mp3 player and an Archos mp3 player. I personally hate itunes (required to put music on an ipod) and love the fact that with the 2 players I can just drag and drop file onto it. But, despite that con (itunes) the ipods sound way better that the other 2 players, even with the same exact files. I would recommend the ipod.

What do think is the reason for different sound quality?

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by macky

I personally hate itunes (required to put music on an ipod) and love the fact that with the 2 players I can just drag and drop file onto it.

So an iPod will not let me rip from a current store bought CD and drop the file into the iPod? Only music bought from iTunes will play on an iPod???

[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by Oscar

So an iPod will not let me rip from a current store bought CD and drop the file into the iPod? Only music bought from iTunes will play on an iPod???

No, you can rip a store bought cd. I have never downloaded a song from Itunes. Just rip through Media player, then install song on Itunes.

One feature I like of Itunes is the Genius feature. Once you regester online(Takes a CC, Which I hate) But then pick any song in your library, click genius and it makes a playlist up to 100 songs with music similar to the one you selected. Great fro making playlists.

[Aleks]

Originally Posted by macky

As far as mp3 players go... I own 2 ipods, a Dell mp3 player and an Archos mp3 player. I personally hate itunes (required to put music on an ipod) and love the fact that with the 2 players I can just drag and drop file onto it. But, despite that con (itunes) the ipods sound way better that the other 2 players, even with the same exact files. I would recommend the ipod.

Itunes is not a requirement unless you want to be able to update your ipod's firmware.....There are a number of 3rd party apps that will interface the ipod without any problems. One was mentioned earlier in the thread....