Itunes - is it essential?

Christy

Just had my daughters Christmas Nano delivered... I had a quick look at the instructions and the first one is to download ITunes to get it going. Is this necessary? and can I still use my existing Mp3 collection to load songs into it. I like Musicmatch jukebox - I tried ITunes and wasen't too keen on it... Can I do without it???

espresso

Yes you can do without iTunes, which is really a marketing tool to get you to buy music. There are many other applications that you can use like Yamipod.

Rikki

:hello: Hi expresso.

I too am going to have a simular problem over Christmas.

I will have no access to the internet over Christmas. What do I need to load onto my laptop to get the ipod up and running.
I have no music or anything on the laptop and have had no dealings with mp3 players.
I do have itunes on the main computer but its No1 sons who uses it.

woo

You get itunes on a cd with your iPod, so shouldn't be an issue.

Rikki

woo wrote:

You get itunes on a cd with your iPod, so shouldn't be an issue.

There is no CD with it.

espresso

Rikki wrote:

:hello: Hi expresso.

I too am going to have a similar problem over Christmas.

I will have no access to the internet over Christmas. What do I need to load onto my laptop to get the ipod up and running.
I have no music or anything on the laptop and have had no dealings with mp3 players.
I do have itunes on the main computer but its No1 sons who uses it.

Well I don't use iTunes but one of the other applications like Yamipod will allow you to transfer music tracks etc.

Rikki

espresso wrote:

Well I don't use iTunes but one of the other applications like Yamipod will allow you to transfer music tracks etc.

So do transfer some CDs onto my laptop, download and transfer Yamipod to the laptop and away I go. Is it that simple?

espresso

Yes that should work fine although you will need to rip the music to mp3 before transfering it using Yamipod

Christy

woo wrote:

You get itunes on a cd with your iPod, so shouldn't be an issue.

The new Nano does not come with an ITunes CD - you have to download it. I still dont want to use it!!!

amcluesent

>I still dont want to use it!!!<

Each to their own, of course, by iTunes is free. Plus, if you use manual synchronisation, you can just drag'n'drop mp3 files from the PC hard disk to be copied to the Nano without making any changes to your music collection on the PC. iTunes will rip CDs to mp3 format with no digital rights management applied.

wolfman

I'm not an iTunes fan either. Just found it a bit heavy and often too controlling.

I used Winamp with the ml_ipod plugin (in Windows) and Amarok (in Linux) before I Rockbox'd my iPod. And I've got the Database Builder for my Shuffle so don't need iTunes for that either.