Is this true about iPod??

[cbmeeks]

I heard that iPod ONLY plays music downloaded from iTunes. Is this true?

I mean, I just recently started getting music legally (yes, I know). I have purchased about 20 songs maybe but have 4,000 in my collection.

I started downloading MP3's back in the mid-late 90s before we knew it was "wrong".

Anyway, I am hinting at the iPod nano for xmas but if it will only play the 20 songs I have purchased, then I am screwed. I mean, out of the 4000 songs I have, I personally only listen to about 100-500 of them (the rest are TV shows, comedy shows, music downloaded by other people, etc).

Thanks!

cbmeeks

[kainjow]

The iPod plays any MP3, but if you have DRM'd WMA's purchased from Rhapsody, Napster, etc, iTunes won't load them onto your iPod. You'd have to find a way to convert them (not easy...) to AAC or MP3.

[cbmeeks]

Oh, ok. Since I have NEVER bought music from anyone but iTunes, I should be ok?

I mean, I downloaded hard for like 4 years until about 2001. Then, I just stopped for a long time, then, got into iTunes recently.

So, I guess I am good.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Oh, ok. Since I have NEVER bought music from anyone but iTunes, I should be ok?

Yep -- if your collection consists of regular MP3 files and files purchased from the iTunes Music Store, then the iPod will play all of them.

[cbmeeks]

Groovy...now my wife has no excuse! lol

Oh, btw, what do you guys think about Dell's DJ Ditty?

[kainjow]

Dell's players will never compete with Apple. Not sure why they're wasting their time really...

[cbmeeks]

Yeah, have you ever notice that everyone out there is labeled the next "iPod Killer".

I mean, when's the last time you heard the phrase: "the next DJ Ditty Killer"....LMAO

Face it Dell (and everyone else), Apple has style.

cbmeeks

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Dell's DJ is extremely popular (behind the iPod still, of course) at my university. I had a fellow student ask me which one I would recommend to a strictly PC-person -- either the DJ or the iPod. He ended up getting a 30GB iPod photo upon my recommendation and has never been happier with it...

...now if I could just turn him on to GOOD music instead of the crap he puts on there...