Pretty much sums it up. If you were going out to buy one right now, which would you get and why? And keep in mind a couple of facts, the person using this is NOT tech savvy (which means it is clearly not me! ). Also, I would be loading the unit up with about 3000 songs from my comp and then it will be used on their computer, I've never done this and don't want to risk deleting all the tracks when it syncs to the new computer. Guy wants to stay around 30-40GB in size. any advice?

12/27/2005 10:48:51 AM

well ipods cant transfer songs unless you turn the harddrive function and simply use it to store the songs (not listen to)...on the otherhand iPod is the most ergonomic/user friendly

12/27/2005 10:51:33 AM

so here is a question, if I had a brand new ipod, set it up to act as a harddrive initially, loaded it up, took it to the other computer, downloaded all the songs onto the other computer, then switched the ipod back to normal mode, could it then be synced up with itunes and have all of that music loaded up like normal?

12/27/2005 10:54:43 AM

Phillip iRivers

12/27/2005 11:02:28 AM

^^Yes.

12/27/2005 11:17:41 AM

seach on the internet...

There are programs that allow you to copy from your IPOD back to your computer in case your computer crashes

12/27/2005 12:50:31 PM

^O RLY?

12/27/2005 1:30:09 PM

iPods are for losers and fags. only cool people buy iRivers

12/27/2005 1:32:41 PM

^^^those programs also have the chance of crashing your ipod, and they void your warranty(friend had one and did that and somehow the knew what he did) so it should be used as a last resort only

[Edited on December 27, 2005 at 1:34 PM. Reason : adf]

12/27/2005 1:34:00 PM

well, this is only a one-time thing. basically once the music is moved the first time, it will never be done that way again. So if I can move it from comp to comp with the ipod set to manual (or HDD mode) then I am good.

12/27/2005 2:05:33 PM

yea...i would go with HD mode

12/27/2005 2:12:14 PM

iPods are for cool people. only losers and fags buy iRivers. Also, only losers and fags obsess about what other people buy on some message board

12/27/2005 6:21:41 PM

Quote :

"^^^those programs also have the chance of crashing your ipod, and they void your warranty(friend had one and did that and somehow the knew what he did) so it should be used as a last resort only "

Your friend is a fucking idiot then.

You realize you can physically Copy and Paste the music from your IPod to your PC without iTunes right?

Plug it in, copy to new folder, import with itunes and you have all your music.

12/27/2005 7:06:38 PM