Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Don
Pearce
wrote:


My main wish for an iPod is that it should have no associated pc
software - just appear as a hard drive, so I can do my own managing.

Are there no portable music replay devices that do that? I might be
interested in one I could load standard LPCM files onto as a USB HD. But I
am averse to both 'data reduced' formats and to the operating systems
implied by the 'management' software which something like an iPod seems to
demand.

I have wondered also about devices like the Olympus and Zoom recorders on
this basis...

Slainte,

Jim


I have a TomTom sat nav that appears as a drive on my PC, and has a
directory called MP3, in which I can put music files, but that is
obviously for the car only. It can't play lpcm or anything but mp3.

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