OT: iPod info needed

[kjbrosha at gmail.com (Kevin Brosha)]

What's the benefit of this over the stock firmware?

I know my iriver can't play AAC, but is pretty good at most other things,
except that it needs to be attached to the computer to change anything.  If
it will let me move things around while on the iriver, that'd be cool.


On 4/25/06, Matt Gregory <vdub.grego@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You might be interested in this: http://www.rockbox.org/
>
> IIRC, it's replacement firmware for multiple digital music players,
> including the iPod, which makes the iPod act more like others in the fact
> that it will basically play whatever tracks are copied to it.
>
> matt.
>
> On 4/25/06, Jim Ruffi <sciroccos@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'm considering buying an iPod, even though I had previously found
> > iTunes to be a major resource hog on Windows.  I'm also considering
> using
> > winamp or another (lighter) client to sync it with, instead of the
> dreaded
> > iTunes.  Any suggestions/thoughts?
> >
> > I searched Apple.com and was unable to find an answer to this simple
> > question:
> >
> > Can you set up the system so you sync tunes to the iPod but they don't
> > remain on your PC's hard drive?  My little laptop only has a 40 gig HDD
> > and
> > I'll have more tunes than space on my PC.  If so, can you still manage
> the
> > tags, playlists, etc. from your PC?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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