If Brasky were so inclined, he could simply turn the iPod into a disk, use WinAmp's media library and drag and drop his stuff on there. It'll work, if you hate iTunes that much. I know it can be done, but I don't use Windows, and I like iTunes just fine for my iPod usage. Anyway, just Google the How To on that...
Nah. I have the iTunes set up properly. Now that I deleted everything and did it right. Did it the same day, in fact. Its just that it took me three hours to un-fuck the thing and do it right, from scratch. And its unlikely anyone here woulda done it much faster, maybe you woulda wiped-hands-on-pants in
two hours.
Figure 45 sec per album, 70 albums onto the iTunes, then onto the player. How long would that take you? I did 'em one at a time because I was checking each file for faults. Plus the factory default re-set.
I didn't want to put 400+ albums into iTunes, because she would get the brilliant idea to start fuckin' with it again. So everything thats in iTunes is whats on the player, no more no less. And she's not allowed to charge it in the USB either, wall jack. It will never touch another computer again, until I change some fresh albums.
The only thing that I'm not satisfied with is the album art, aside from my general annoyance.
Its a shame, cause its a really nice player. Slick. You can argue to the contrary til you're blue int he face, but you really can't convince me you'd prefer the proprietary iTunes interface to it being optional. If you chose to utilize it, fine. Thats how it should be. I'm not wacky about it chattering away with the mothership behind my back, especially in a few years when albums are embedded with serial numbers.