iPod classic alternative?

[Tim.]

I want to store all my music in a single, portable location so I can dispense with the multiple towers of CDs cluttering up the house.

Are there any credible alternatives to the iPod classic?

 

[Christopher]

There are, but they're crap.

A large Classic will do the job.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Are you selling or binning your CDs or just putting them in the loft ?



There are others, but the world is set up for iPods now. Why bother with anything else ?

 

[Tom]

How about an external harddrive?

Or itunes match and an ATV2

 

[Goodj]

I can't fault my 80gb classic, plugs into all my stereo sets and the car.

THey're hardly expensive anymore either

 

[Revels]

You're going to need to rip it all to a computer anyway.

So buy an ExtHD and put it all on there. Then just buy whatever size iPod you think you need for carrying around day-to-day.

 

[Goodj]

Well, yes, but if you only need 120gb (or whatever the big ones are these days) you can junt mount the iPod as a drive.

Have done for years, always worked fine

 

[Revels]

Then what happens if you lose it?

I don't think you really want to be ripping all that music again.

 

[Grandpa Munster]

I was looking for a large storage device to copy all my cds to, and the 160gig ipod classic appears to have enough capacity.

Then I read that Apple are going to phase out the ipod classic, so I started looking at the ipod touch. Problem is this does not come with enough storage at the moment. As soon as Apple release a 128gig touch, which is rumoured, then I will consider this option.

As I'm a bit behind times can someone tell me what is involved to get the contents of a cd onto an ipod touch?

Sorry for the hijack.