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Undertoad · 09-03-2004, 01:02 PM

The smaller ones use ram, but every unit out there that's 5 gigs and up are hard drives.

It's fair to have an iPod but the current ads are for iTunes+iPod. The iPod, and all competition, play mp3 just fine. Most others also play WMA (debbil begone!) and one even plays OGG. Only iTunes and the iPod play the DRM-encoded iTunes files. What I will continue to do is rip everything to fairly high bit rate mp3, as it's a kind of universal format right now. That way I still buy the CD and so I get the full-quality "originals".

I have CNN/Fox News/MSNBC on as background filler all day.

09-03-2004, 01:02 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The smaller ones use ram, but every unit out there that's 5 gigs and up are hard drives. It's fair to have an iPod but the current ads are for iTunes+iPod. The iPod, and all competition, play mp3 just fine. Most others also play WMA (debbil begone!) and one even plays OGG. Only iTunes and the iPod play the DRM-encoded iTunes files. What I will continue to do is rip everything to fairly high bit rate mp3, as it's a kind of universal format right now. That way I still buy the CD and so I get the full-quality "originals". I have CNN/Fox News/MSNBC on as background filler all day.