"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Mys Terry wrote:
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:52:30 -0500, Wayne.B

wrote:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:09:10 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

I was always an electronic gizmo and gadget nut, but for some reason
the whole appeal of Ipods and the like is lost on me.
I don't have an Ipod but sort of understand the appeal since I've been
collecting MP3s on my PCs for more years than I can remember. It's
sort of like having an on demand juke box of all of your favorite
tunes. If you get the sampling rate high enough the quality is not
all that bad and certainly a lot better than the gear that most of us
had back in the 50s and 60s.

The problem with these things is the time involved in loading them up
with all
the songs in the first place, and then the things are designed to fail
after
about a year and you get to buy a new one to start loading all over
again. Do
you really want to sit here like an idiot and load 100 albums into the
damned
thing? Get XM or Sirius and leave all that stuff behind.




I use two programs from Anapod to store all my tunes in proper categories
on a hard drive and to "manipulate" files in all manner of interesting
ways. Reloading songs from one hard drive to the hard drive on my iPod is
quite fast.


I got the Ipod today, downloaded my 1,467 Itunes songs and have been messing
around with it for the last hour. I looked at Anapod but am not convinced
it is a better program than Itunes.

What does my $30 buy for me with Anapod that the Itunes (free) cannot do?

TIA.

BTW: The FM transmitter (
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3661257 ) I got is OK
in my car but not so in my wife's SUV. I am thinking about a hardwire
connection for her car similar to this one:
http://peripheralelectronics.com/web/ipod2car.asp

Does anyone have any experience with this hardware?