was HW: Vinyl, t-shirts, etc. now "iPods"

[Colin Allen]

I have one of those rather cute Sony ones (it was the smooth curves that made me buy it!); it also can charge via the USB port as well as via mains.

Keith Henderson <khenders64 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:  Paul wrote...

Paul Mather 
wrote: >If you are going to buy an actual iPod, you charge it via the USB 
>port of the computer on which you run iTunes (which is how you load 
>tunes onto the iPod). So, there is no charger issue.

Well, that's interesting. Tells you how much I know. Do all brands work this way? That would sure make things a lot more simple in one sense (worldwide universal), although I don't own a ("modern") computer let alone one that I would carry around in a backpack, so is that the *only* way they can be charged?

>Of course, by "iPod" you could have meant a generic high-capacity 
portable music player. There are lots of those about. For example, 
I hear the ones by Creative are well recommended.

Yeah, I was using the term in a "generic" sense, which probably pisses off Apple, as I know that trademarks can become invalid if terms become accepted as generic.

Anyway, my interest in buying one would be entirely to load up music that I own myself (or is freely available online)...I have no interest in purchasing music files online. So to me it will be entirely a portable device - I don't want to buy music via Apple. So how might that change what brand I would prefer?

I'll look into Creative anyway.

Thanks...feel free to take offline is you think this is too much offtopic here.

Grakkl


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