Re: [tlug] [OT] MP3 Player usb support MACOS

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Jul 23, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> On 7/23/2007, "Niels Kobschätzki" <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>
> wrote:
>
> > <snip more ipod is great and you can even use it under linux, too>
> >
> > please&#65533;not again a "to ipod or not to ipod"-discussion&#65533;
>
> Pardon me if I've got this wrong, but wasn't the original question
> specifically whether to get an iPod or some other, un-named player?  
> And
> for use with a Mac, no less? Ummm, let me see. Why, yes, it was?

On Jul 23, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Pietro Zuco wrote:
> So before take an iPod I wonder if someone have experience with  
> some MP3 player that are _officially_ compatible only under Windows.

And because of that I understood the thread as "before using an iPod  
I would like to see if there are alternatives in cheaper MP3-players  
because those all say 'windows compatible'" and hence that I had  
problems with your mail (but maybe that related to some stressful  
days as well).

Back to what Jonathan Byrne wrote on Jul 23, 2007, at 7:24 PM:
> Strikes me that since I have an iPod and a Mac and am using them
> together, a response stating why an iPod may be the best choice is far
> more on-topic and apropos than your rude and uncalled-for response.

I have here a Mac-only household and we have here several iPods  - I  
love them, too (even though they break away under my hands like hell… 
I have my fifth now and three of them had a harddisk-crash not caused  
by me (one died because of human failure) -- my gf has still her  
first (4G)).
But I wouldn't suggest them on regularly basis because they far more  
expensive than those cheap USB-stick-mp3-players (you get 1GB here  
(Germany) for €20 - iPod Shuffle costs €80) and if you do not need  
the slick interface, the design and just wanna play some songs -  
there you go (and I just decided against the iPhone and went for a  
BlackBerry even though the iPhone would integrate far better (but is  
far more expensive and has several disadvantages from that what I  
have seen online, but I do not want to discuss this here right now).
In addition they (USB-stick MP3-players)  are far more easier to use  
as some kind of transportable storage medium because you do not have  
to format them first in iTunes on Windows as FAT-drives and do not  
need to carry around the USB-cable.

And I apologize, I didn't have seen my respond as rude but more as a  
general "usually after those mails I see long endless and senseless  
discussions or flame wars coming - let's try to stop it before it  
starts" and I wrote more about this in a previous mail.

Niels