I can imagine my life without my 80 gb ipod (state prison, siberia, ...) albeit, it's definitely enhances life.
regarding codecs, Apple's implementation of it's aac codec reproduces sound
significanlty better than windows media wma lossless.
All Software music players do just about the same thing, excepting each vendor will tweak published algorithms or write their own using playback code using industry guidlines
I guess what I'm getting at is I play alot of music played at home is from my computer using itunes and many movies are played from disk to home theater using Cyberlink UltaDVD10. Windows implementation of codecs don't sound as rich and ppowerful to mee.
that is comparing windows media player 11 + wma codecs
with itunes + apples version of aac
I dislike being strapped to Apple's
