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Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte
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LOL. That link says 68% of people voted iTunes was "garbage". Which was what I voted too - stopped using it to manage toons a good while ago. iTunes sucks equidae unmentionables...
And, after several years of grudging respect for 'Doze Media Player (versions 6-9, IIRC), issues with it's library scanning and/or file/tag parsing notwithstanding, I finally concluded that the version you get with Win 7 sucks very, very, badly...
I use Clementine now (mostly on Linux, but there's a 'Doze port) - and I'm a lot, lot, happier... I was briefly happy with MediaMonkey - until I realised it only works on Windows.
I still have my generation 5.5 video iPod with a 240GB Tosh drive and some 30,000 songs - e.g. every CD I ever bought - and the iPods do integrate beautifully with my Alpine digital media head unit for the car.
But if you can prune the collection below 20,000 songs, just use Google music in the car/any web browser...
For working out or general walking around music, I'm quite taken with the Sansa/SanDisk Zip Clip. ARM9E chipset with a high-quality DAC (sound quality is good - especially with Grados or my Shure 201's), tiny, cheap enough (even with a 32 or 64GB microSD card) not to care overmuch if you lose it - I bought mine for $30, manufacturer refurb.
Oh, and as far as sound quality is concerned - I'm not an audiophile, but I use the iPod video because I can hear the difference in the DAC between that and the iPod Classic (generation 6) - later iPods don't have the sound quality of the earlier ones....
Loading songs on the Zip Clip is trivial - as it should be. You just copy them to built-in storage on the unit itself or the SD card, using the file manager of your choice.... It reads the ID3 tags/displays embedded art, supports playlists & list/album/song shuffle. You can even flash Rockbox - but the stock firmware natively supports almost all audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA, and DRM-free AAC.
I don't really care that it supports audiobooks, podcasts, RDS radio, voice recording and has a stopwatch - but someone might
