New iPod

On Saturday I bought the new 30gb iPod I was very excited since my last mp3 player went kaput.

Saturday night I plugged it into my dell laptop and followed the directions. I was up until 2am trying to get the iPod to be recognized by Windows. I ended up downloading ephpod to use instead of music match (which is terrible.)

I went to bed at 2am, angry that I couldn't get this simple thing to work. In the morning I ignored the direction and what I'd read on the newsgroups and formatted the iPod with Windows Explorer. Then I used ephpod to create directories and could then start copying music over.

I bet that the iPod works seamlessly with Apples, but with Windows it sucked. None of the software that came with the iPod worked and I had to use some 3rd party programs. It's okay now, but what a hassle.