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Stuart · 11-04-2004, 17:05

Well, despite all my previous comments about the iPod (and in particular the battery problems), I finally got a 20 gig one. Battery life is fine, and it is nice being able to charge from firewire (although the iPod seems a bit picky about being charged from pc Firewire ports (powered or not). It seems perfectly happy to charge from the firewire port on the eMac at work though.

The only thing I still don't like is iTunes. Luckily, there are replacements.

For encoding, if you have Adobe Audition (will possibly work on Cool Edit 2000 as well) and Nero 6, there is a plug in that will enable you to use Audition to create an iPod compatible MP4 file. Nero can also do this out of the box, but you need the plug in and Audition if you want to convert multiple files. The plug in is at http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/files/cool_neromp4.zip
Apparently, dbPowerAmp will as well, but I had major problems using this (the iPod would not read the files).

For managing the iPod, there is Anapod Explorer which is quite good, but not free.

There is also Ephpod for a damn good freeware alternative.

11-04-2004, 17:05	#1
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	I got an iPod Well, despite all my previous comments about the iPod (and in particular the battery problems), I finally got a 20 gig one. Battery life is fine, and it is nice being able to charge from firewire (although the iPod seems a bit picky about being charged from pc Firewire ports (powered or not). It seems perfectly happy to charge from the firewire port on the eMac at work though. The only thing I still don't like is iTunes. Luckily, there are replacements. For encoding, if you have Adobe Audition (will possibly work on Cool Edit 2000 as well) and Nero 6, there is a plug in that will enable you to use Audition to create an iPod compatible MP4 file. Nero can also do this out of the box, but you need the plug in and Audition if you want to convert multiple files. The plug in is at http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/files/cool_neromp4.zip Apparently, dbPowerAmp will as well, but I had major problems using this (the iPod would not read the files). For managing the iPod, there is Anapod Explorer which is quite good, but not free. There is also Ephpod for a damn good freeware alternative.