What a relief. Perhaps its just me but does iTunes really suck? Does it suck on MACs too? I bet it really does; but its a coolness and status thing for them. After all, they run that cool BSD’ish OS for a reason. To spend more money on the OS? Is it a silo itself? Don’t know; don’t care. I’m good with the AMD64 stuff myself. To replace iTunes and its clumsy, quirky interface, I submit that an iPod 80g Video does not need to call the mothership at all. I can Rockbox it. Then I can MediaMonkey it on my Windows systems or use whatever I want on Linux to hit my NFS server, samba server, whatever. Here’s an added extra. I point my install of whatever at the mounted file system of the Ipod and I can play all the music files through the laptop. Nice touch. Can I do that with iTunes? It means that the little drive in it that the Ipod has becomes a truly portable music center for me and it also means that the iPod and my other player are backups.
My advice? Ditch the iTunes. If you need downloads; get thee to amazonmp3.
