On 8/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Dayley</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:alandd@consultpros.com">alandd@consultpros.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don&#39;t buy DRM music.</blockquote><div><br>Good plan Alan.&nbsp; I regret having bought some music off the iTunes site in the past due to the vendor lockin.&nbsp; Another problem I had was that &quot;I used to could&quot; convert mp4 music videos over&nbsp; to MP3&#39;s in iTunes for my 3rd gen (aka no video) iPod.&nbsp; Since the subsequent release of video iPods, I could no longer convert these files since it was a good format for iTunes and newer iPod&#39;s, but did not realize I wanted the audio converted for my older iPod.
<br><br>Due to this and other issues with the Apple/OSX/iPod platform, I run Debian on my old G4.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Aside: Yes I own an iPod.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a gift nearly two years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;It has<br>never had an iTunes song on it, only MP3s from my ripped CDs or from<br>non-DRM download sources.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of these days I&#39;m going to put<br><a href="http://www.rockbox.org">
http://www.rockbox.org</a> firmware on it and have some real fun!<br></blockquote></div><br>One issue I read about with rockbox is that if you have an HFS+ formatted iPod, you can&#39;t load rockbox until you reformat it in FAT on Windows.&nbsp; Anyone found a workaround?
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