Info on Ipods?

Apple sux. There are many non-Apple branded music players that do not have the heavy-hand of big daddy Steve Jobs keeping you from enjoying your music. I recommend a Creative player as an alternative to Apple's iPod.

mp3 players work either on flash memory (no moving parts, but less capacity,) or disk drives (moving parts, but more space.) You'll get about 17 hours of music per gigabyte on the player, if you want CD quality. For pricing just check the net. There are companies selling music through commercial sites for around $1 per song, there are portals for indie and charitable groups that give away their music, and there is illegal piracy through Peer to Peer. This last is unbelieveably popular, but you'll go to Hell if you do it, so it's not worth it.

There might be a way to get music on an iPod without a computer, but I wouldn't begin to know. My Verizon phone is mp3 enabled, and if I felt like spending money, I could buy music from them and get it on my phone - no computer required - but that is because it is a cell phone, not an iPod.

My Creative player and my Verizon phone each have a 1 gb flash drive, and I refresh them regularly from my comp's hard disk, where I have almost 9000 songs that I've ripped from CDs, copied from records and tapes, and downloaded for free (legally) from the internet through the indie portal sites I mentioned.

srw985 gave some great info. I would add a couple things to it, though. Any CD's you own can legally be ripped to play on an iPod, as well. All you do is open iTunes, put the CD in your computer and you can choose to rip the entire CD or just choose which songs you want to put into iTunes.

iPods are dead simple to use, as well. The controls are very intuitive and they beat any other player on the market hands down when it comes to ease of use.

There are other players on the market like the Creative Zen and Microsoft Zune, but there's a very good reason that iPod has the lion's share of the market. They work, they're easy to use, there are zillions of accessories available, and they sound good.

I never go anywhere without my 30GB iPod. I've got over 2400 songs on it, about a dozen movies, 50 or so photographs, and a few very important files that I keep as a backup to the important files on my computer's hard drive.

If you love music, you'll want one. I have two. A larger 20 gig one and a Nano.

It does cost money to get music legally. People do download stuff illegally on the net, but I won't point you that way. If you want to get all your music on an iPod, you'll need one of iPod videos (if you're buying new). If it is more important to have your music super portable for walking, workouts, etc, the Nano is a good bet.

There are other music players out there. Some people like the Zune. I happen to be a big fan of Apple's design on computers as well as with iPods.

I've had both of mine for a while. It is hard to imagine not having them now.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A...

The 8gb nano is better simply because you can hold twice the amount of songs that you can on the 4gb. No you cannot watch videos on these particular ipods. You would have to get the more expensive video ipods.

They do work with PCs, and you can get the Video (30GB or 80GB) Nano (2,4,8 GB) and shuffle (1GB).

It costs money to download songs from the iTunes Music Store, but it will work with any MP3 track from Limewire etc, even though I dont reccomend using them.

i made a brochure on this for a project not that long ago, and if you give me your email, i will attach it to the email and send it to you.

it has alot of really helpfull information.