My beautiful old iRiver died while i was travelling in Cambodia. It disappeared from my luggage on a bus. Device death by disappearance.

i was sad, i was disappointed.
But sooner or later i had to have another music player**.

So i chomped on the ammunition and stole an iPod classic from JB hifi. They took $325 from me but it felt like a steal anyway.

Heaven.

Glamor-tech.

Charming.

and no i don’t have to run iTunes.
So Relieved About That!!

Yes, Winamp manages an iPod just fine.

• No fuss,
• no silly synchronising,
• no locking the pod to only one computer.

Just drag the files across and there they are.

Yay Winamp.

PS: not perfect, this device.

• Sensitivity of wheel changes according to mood;
• iPod freezes, yes freezes;
• display by coverflow is dumb: every song is displayed with its album cover.

**Yes i have the iRiver e100, but that’s a kind of joke really. When you put the micro SD card in, all the screen writing reverses to mirror image. Fortunately i can read mirror writing just like da Vinci.

photo credit: Themis Chapsis