I-pod touch

[spiffykyle]

Dude, before you start converting all of your music...

ipods play MP3's. The only music I have in AAC format on my computer is what I've bought through itunes.

spiffy

[bigwhiteash]

Yeah, I have all my CD's ripped in WMA format, not Apple compatible

[cigar no baka]

Dude, before you start converting all of your music...

ipods play MP3's. The only music I have in AAC format on my computer is what I've bought through itunes.

spiffy

Oh, so I don't have to put them into Itunes before I load them into the Ipod? That's great to know. They don't put any instruction manuals into Ipods so I will go online and look up how to load songs w/o using Itunes. Thanks for the tip. Gonna save me tons of time.

[heftysmokes]

You can keep your mp3 formatted music and still play it in itunes. It should give you the choice after installing itunes whether or not you'd like to convert to the aac format.
One thing to keep in mind: after itunes is installed, when you put a new cd into your computer to import into itunes, it will automatically import it in the aac format. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but if in the future, you ever decide to switch to a different brand of music player, they will more than likely not play when in aac format.

[cigar no baka]

You can keep your mp3 formatted music and still play it in itunes. It should give you the choice after installing itunes whether or not you'd like to convert to the aac format.
One thing to keep in mind: after itunes is installed, when you put a new cd into your computer to import into itunes, it will automatically import it in the aac format. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but if in the future, you ever decide to switch to a different brand of music player, they will more than likely not play when in aac format.

Well, I have chosen Windows Media Player as my default, and when I insert a CD into my PC, it still comes up with WMP evenafter I installed itunes. I think I chose the right option when installing itunes to make sure it was not the default player.

[spiffykyle]

You need them in itunes before you can sync your ipod, however itunes plays more than jus AAC. It plays MP3, WAV, etc. No WMA/WMV since that's a microsoft format.

If you have all of that music on your computer, you can just point itunes to where it is located and it will all show up in your itunes library. Basically just File -> "Add folder to library"

Then itunes will take care of the rest, and everything will stay in MP3 format.

Personally I like itunes for organizing my music and whatnot. I was using it before I got my ipod a few years ago.

spiffy

[cigar no baka]

You need them in itunes before you can sync your ipod, however itunes plays more than jus AAC. It plays MP3, WAV, etc. No WMA/WMV since that's a microsoft format.

If you have all of that music on your computer, you can just point itunes to where it is located and it will all show up in your itunes library. Basically just File -> "Add folder to library"

Then itunes will take care of the rest, and everything will stay in MP3 format.

Personally I like itunes for organizing my music and whatnot. I was using it before I got my ipod a few years ago.

spiffy

Ok so itunes will still play songs in other formats even when add them to your itunes library? That's good to know, thanks.

[rollurown]

Agree with the others. Though the features of the iPod Touch seem to have some "wow", not sure they're worth the steep price the end. The whole proprietary format thing is also pretty unappealing. Interested to hear your experiences, and hope you like it.

[JFellows]

I bought my 30 gig Zune from woot.com brand new for $130 and I've never regretted it. I think Woot now has them for as little as $100.

[str8edg]

I don't have a Touch but I have played with a couple. My students have them and wanted me to import some music into them, the coolest was ripping movies for them. A whole movie was about 450ish MB I could not believe it.

As for importing songs I have used MediaMonkey in the past, it is not compatible with these newest generations of iPods but for the older ones it is great, no conversting at AAC, just drag MP3's.

The fact that Apple forces you to use itunes with the Touch is the reason that I have not bought one yet. I have seen generic MP3 players that look and feel the same as the Touch, they do look great.