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Summary: This is it!!! It's worth the exra bucks!
Review: ...I've been jogging with this everyday for a week - no problems. I got the 20gb model and it JUST WORKS! The menu is intuituve, it works smoothly, and it's very light for a 20gb mp3 player. I think I agree that perhaps the Musicmatch Jukebox software (which comes with it) might not be the EASIEST to learn, but if you bother to spend 30 minutes playing with it, and if you use the Help menu, you can use everything you need. As software goes, it does EVERYTHING. If you still don't like it - you can buy other software - such as EphPod or XPlay. I also bought a great carrying case, with an armband from Marware Inc. (Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't sell it, but you can visit their own website). I had other mp3 players, and they just do not compare. Just do it!
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Summary: The Fix For MusicMatch - Ephpod
Review: ...Instead, take the disk that comes with it and put it away. Never, ever install it. Instead go do a search for Epdpod. Download and install that. Its basically everything MusicMatch was supposed to be but wasn't. Pretty much every problem you will have with MusicMatch does not exist with this software. Even better, its free. Repeat, do not ever install MusicMatch, install Ephpod.
Ephpod and iPod, a wonderful match.
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Summary: The Future is Now!
Review: 400 CD's or about 4000 songs on a little machine the size of a deck of cards. The ipod is what they meant when they say technology will make things more conveinent for us in the future. I put all my CD's, about 200 and a bunch of my dad's music as well. That took up 8.5GB so I still have about 10GB left! The functional capacity of the 20GB Ipod is 18.5GB.About the whole MusicMatch vs. Xplay vs. Ephpod debate, I downloaded all three. I have been using MM with the new Dell I got, so it made sense for me to keep on using it. I reccommend to future buyers that they give MM a chance and not spend the money on Xplay right away. Yes, xplay isn't free any longer, just the trial version was free a while ago. MM is kind of weird though, sometimes changes you make to the tags in MM won't make it to the songs in your music library. The sound the Ipod produces is great, just as good or better than music from a CD player. I don't like ear-bud style headphones, they sound fine, but I prefer my $90 over the ear Sony's. The Ipod sound just as good with those huge headphone as with the ear-buds. The touch-pad is very cool, a little tricky at first, but you get the hang of it soon enough.
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Summary: Ipod is awesome- MusicMatch isn't
Review: After installing the software that comes with the 20G Win-Ipod...I ripped 300+ CD's and tried to syncronize with my PC (Compaq 1.4G P4 with 1G of RAM running XP pro, FYI). No dice. Took three different firewire cards before I found one that works. Belkin, BTW. Even after various emails (48 hours for a reply) with MusicMatch support team, and deleting Easy CD Creator and some other software, it takes 12-14 hours to syncronize! Glad Firewire is so fast! I finally bought XPlay and can syncronize in 15 mins. Once that was dealt with, I've found the Ipod to be awesome. Easy to use, 10 hours on a battery charge, it's worth every penny. If you are afraid to experiment with your system, line up a freind who is tech-freindly...you'll need him/her.
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Summary: Works Great
Review: After spending many many hours copying my CDs to my computer, I decided that I needed a gadget to bring my tunes with me. After downloading a free version of ephpod from the internet, I was able to copy my songs to my Ipod. Now I am able to take 20gigs of my songs with me to work everyday. I use Tivoli's PAL radio to play my Ipod at work. After a couple of months of use, I am completely happy with my purchase.
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Summary: Works fine with IBM ThinkPad & WinXP
Review: Although I read the reviews saying that the iPod won't work with IBM Thinkpad laptops, under WinXP, I couldn't resist buying it, & luckily found that it works just fine. My T30 thinkpad connects perfectly to the iPod using an Adaptec Fire400 card, & transfers audio & data files in incredible speed (CD in 10 seconds or less). So, if you have a Thinkpad, my advise is to give it a try, this product is worth everything!
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Summary: Piece of cake, amazing capacity
Review: Amazing capacity, gorgeous design, true ease of use. What you'd expect from Apple, from the case to the packaging. Could not be easier to use, even on Windows.
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Summary: Chere, but dear
Review: Apple takes your money out-the-wazoo, but in this case, it's well worth it. I honestly don't see a point in paying [a lot of money]for a 64MB or 128MB mp3 player, when one could go all-out and own the best on the market, with well-over enough space to hold hours upon hours upon hours...of music. This simply is the best available, and although I'm not a Mac user (just because theirs are the fastest, most reliable, and most user-friendly does not make the computers better than Windows-based PCs!) I must say that this is a beautiful, simple, fun machine to use, with easy controls and menus through which to scroll. It's easy. But the main fact that sold me was not the ease of using it, but the storage capacity... 20GB. That's twice the amount my current PC hardrive has got, giving me the ability to carry every song in my library with me, wherever I go. However, although not bad, the software that comes with the Windows iPod is a bit cumbersome, not bad, just could be a bit better, but this being a review for the iPod itself, no points were docked, nor do any deserve to be. The iPod is the music-lover's dream-come-true.
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Summary: Head & Shoulders Above the Rest
Review: As a "MacAddict", in my opinion the iPod is undoubtedly the best of it's kind. j.nomograms
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Summary: The MP3 Player that only Apple could make!
Review: As a long time PC/Windows user, I've always been impressed with Apple's equipment, but also always at a distance. After purchasing my new iPod, I'm wondering why I don't have more equipment from them. This product is one of the first I've purchased in some time that delivers exactly on its promises, worked immediately out of the box as expected, and was just too fun and easy to use. In fact, it took longer to install the FireWire card on my PC, then it did to install, configure and start loading songs onto my iPod. I'm sure you can read the features this iPod offers elsewhere, but let me tell you that all of those features are indeed included and this device performs extremely well and plays songs as well or better than any other device I've owned. In fact, if you're anything like me, once you start using an iPod, you'll wonder what you did before. Playing music from CDs, even my personal mixes, now seems so antiquated. Assuming you decide to purchase this, here are a few tips: 1) consider the 40GB model. Now that I have this, I wonder if more might be even better (I'm nowhere near my 20GB limit, but more is always better, right?!), 2) consider adding an auto power kit for recharging from the lighter for long trips, and 3) very seriously consider getting the FM transmitter to play iPod tunes over any FM radio (Belkin makes a great model for about $30). After that, the hardest decision is which songs to load up and play first. Enjoy!
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