drknstrmyknight
Addicted Member
I may be just lucky, but I've have two I-pods, a G3 my wife gave me when they first came out and a G4 I was given by a co-worker who dropped it and it quit working. Both have had battery transplants and the G4 got a new hard drive when I got it. Both work like a charm and see a lot of use. I use ITunes PC with the G4 and Winamp to manage the G3. The content is all ALAC, ripped from my CD's with EAC to FLAC, and transcoded to ALAC when I want something on move. We also have a Squeezebox that's used with the FLAC files and SqueezeCenter. All compare favorable with mid-end CD players IMO. Songs from I-Tunes store are pretty poor, as are MP3's no matter what bit rate. I've never had a problem with the libraries or the firmware on either unit. Tried RockBox - several versions, but it's never proved stable. The G4 sounds a bit better to my ear, more bottom end. In the car we run it into the factory head - no great shakes - but I can DJ round-trip Detroit-Chicago.