Portable audio player (hands down the best one ever)

[Christopher Chisholm]

Travis Roy wrote:
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>> Mac/Linux compatible (it shows up as a normal USB drive, SOO MUCH 
>> BETTER than some crappy sync software, imho, *cough* itunes)
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> I just wanted to comment on this quickly.. As an avid podcast 
> listener, I must say the way iTunes/iPod deals with this is awesome 
> (and in some respects, audiobooks).
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> You can setup iTunes to download your podcasts and either keep them 
> all, or automatically delete the ones you've listened to. When you 
> sync you can sync them all, or only unplayed ones. This means you can 
> keep your podcast archive and not take up tones of room or have to 
> manually manage your portable player.
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> The other nice thing is that when it syncs it remembers your place. 
> This means I can be 1/3rd of the way through a podcast on my way to 
> work, sync my iPod with iTunes and when I click play on that podcast 
> in iTunes it will be right where I left off in the car.. Listen to say 
> another 1/3rd and sync again before I leave and then when I jump in 
> the car it's right where I left off.
>
> I -LOVE- this feature.

actually I never even thought about pod(shout?)casts with recording and 
an mp3 player.  i'm not sure if the iAudio line has any software to deal 
with that or not, i considered the greatest benefit to be that it didn't 
need any special software at all.  I assume there are some applications 
out there that could sync media to an arbitrary location, but i'm really 
not sure.  for all i know it even came with one ;)

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> Also, the ability to do rankings while in the car and have them 
> translate over to iTunes is good for sorting. I actually have an 
> unrated playlist I listen to in order to weed out stuff I don't like 
> that I haven't had a chance to get to yet, or just acquired.
>
> There are some very good advantages to having some good quality media 
> management software that ties in well with your portable player. 
> iTunes isn't the only one, but some of the other software's names 
> escape me at the moment.
i'm not sure how it handles rankings, i've never really used rankings 
myself.  my guess is it's probably not going to be able to propagate 
ranking back to some sync software.  not sure on that one either, though.


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