Re: Is ephpod still necessary?

You are 1/2 correct.  With a Firewire card, all you have to is plug in the
Ipod and it will be recognized as a removable drive and will be assigned a
drive letter.  You could drag or copy files to it.

However, the Ipod as a music player depends on its own database system.  It
will only recognize songs or other music files based on their ID3 tags.  It
does not look at file name or directory structure.  Therefore, you need
software that's designed to work with Ipod's storage system.

You need to assign ID3 tags to your music files.  There are are a number of
software programs that will do so based on your file name.

It may take a bit of getting used to, but the Ipod system has proved very
functional, since you are able to browse and retrieve your files by artist,
composer, song, or album, in addition to playlist.

A further piece of advice.  When you get your Ipod, do not use the included
CD or install any software.  Apple packages the Ipod with totally
unnecessary Musicmatch Jukebox and a plugin.  Not only do you not need any
of this, installing it will actually impede correct operation of the Ipod.


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My current MP3 player is failing due to a faulty power connector so I'm
considering an iPod as a replacement, but I don't want to give up the
perfect user interface of my Neo2200. Although software was required on
older computers, it isn't anymore.

I can plug my Neo2200 into any modern computer (via a, admittedly slow, USB
cable) and as far as the comupter is concerned it is simply a USB hard
drive. There's no software needed on the computer other than a modern
operating system (in my case, Windows 2000 Pro).

The hard drive is FAT formatted and when the USB cable is unplugged the
player scans all the directories and subdirectories for .mp3 and .m3u
files. The Neo2200 simply presents a hierarchical filesystem view of any
directories containing .mp3 and .m3u files.

With a Windows iPod, why isn't it just a FireWire hard drive? What exactly
does EphPod do? Can a Windows iPod work without software if the OS supports
FireWire hard drives? If not, why not?


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