iPod Owner
Tara is flying to England for two weeks on Monday (don't ask how I will cope with the kids, I don't know yet) so I had a brief period of niceness and popped out and bought her a Video iPod yesterday.
I'm so done with the cheap MP3 players.
The iPod is nice, but the overall experience was strangely not as nice as I expected. I mean, like I said I won't ever buy another non-Apple MP3 player, but there is definitely some strangeness to get over - and I'm not sure time and familiarity will solve it.
It's not the iPod that's at fault; it's iTunes.
For example, in iTunes I miss the tree view in Media Player that allowed me to quickly find an Album. Sorting by columns and scrolling through a billion songs isn't the same. Searching for album name is better, but it's still, well, typing.
Yes, I could create a playlist for every album, but that's more setup time. Why not do that for me anyway?
And when I double click a playlist, why does it think I want to edit the name. I want to PLAY THE SONGS.
And when I minimize it there are no controls on the toolbar like Media player.
And there is no button to switch to Mini Player.
And it didn't convert the songs that I'd bought from MSN Music because it can't convert protected WMA's. Did I say how I hated DRM?
And do you know how long I wasted last night adding cover art to every song? Media Player just did that for me. It was easy, just time consuming.
Doesn't it show the pure beauty of the iPod design that I put up with iTunes?
P.S. Cucusoft DVD to iPod Converter rocks. For $29 it ripped my DVD into iPod compatible MP4 2-3 times faster than it would take to watch the movie, and gave me a 750mb file that works great on the iPod and PC too.
I can rip more than a dozen DVD's, add all our music and all our photo's to the 30gb iPod.
Love it.
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