The fact that files are renamed as numbers is really annoying considering that some songs have messed up ID3 tags but file information in the file which disappears when it's renamed obviously

And if you lose your files, as happens once in a while

PRO'S-30gb is a lot of room, most movies take up about 500-650 meg's a piece, thats nearly 50 movies if you don't have any songs on there!-Beautiful-Feel's pretty solid.-Standard headphone size jack.-EQ settings-Nicely organized song's and folder's etc (if you have them labeled properly)-Sound quality is as good as the files you put on it!Now some issues that people have with the iPod that I think are morons.

I'm looking for non-proprietary file formats and good sound quality

I dont think that enough people are aware of the importance of compatible file diversity in a player, and that too many people are caught up in the "apple craze".

That's good because buying music from iTunes is (in my opinion) not practical because the file has a thousand restrictions on it.

You CANNOT drag & drop stuff to your ipod, the system ignored all the files I copied there, in fact it behaves like an external hard disk - EVERYTHING HAS TO GO THROUGH ITUNES and only from one PC at that.

so I didn't know that they had a difficult file system in place to make it harder for people to put music on the iPod and take it off and to encourage you to make all your music aiff and to use iTunes so that if you needed a new player, you'd have to convert it all if it wasn't an iPod

However, it is important to note that the ipod does not support many different files, and that many other mp3 players do

It also reads a lot of different files so theres not problems with unsupported files like through iTunes

It's platform is capable of versatile file types and music services

WMA is the best file format out there.

I wanted something I could use that was more like a flash drive, or a normal file system, where I can just drag and drop any ol file in a logical to me fashion.

You CANNOT drag & drop stuff to your ipod, the system ignored all the files I copied there, in fact it behaves like an external hard disk - EVERYTHING HAS TO GO THROUGH ITUNES and only from one PC at that.

Sadly enough, my iPod rejected the file, saying it was the wrong format.

I've seen a lot of my friends with ipods suffer the consequences of having the single computer attachment problem and proprietary file format issues

[I ended up buying the RCY Lyra 512 meg and LOVE the drag and drop file

Keep in mind that this is my opinion and you know as well as I if you were thinking about getting one of these (or not

First the positives--I have the 30GB version and have found the transfer time from windows to be insignficant, sound quality is terrific and the slim design a nice plus

you know as well as I thats a stupid reason not to get one of these

I first received an i-pod that didn't work properly, but the vendor quickly replaced it for

Trust me on this one i hav a black i pod and its awesome