[LINK] Microsoft is dead [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Carl Makin]

On 08/04/2007, at 11:05 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> software). i figured iTunes under windows would be a breeze. itunes
> downloaded and installed OK, then it spent almost an hour converting
> all their WMA-encoded files to AAC for no discernible good reason.  
> then

The iPod doesn't support WMA.  The default encoding format is AAC  
(this can be changed).  If you're going to use iTunes to manage an  
iPod (the most common situation I suspect) then the songs need to be  
converted into something that the iPod will play.  Now you either do  
that when copying files to the iPod or when you populate the  
library.  If the software does it when populating the library then it  
only has to worry about managing song metadata in the supported  
formats.  Seems like a better choice to me.

> it would NOT, however, recognise the ipod when it was plugged in.
> Windows detected the ipod and installed the USB driver for it. but
> iTunes wouldn't see it. so, i looked in "My Computer" and saw that
> Windows detected the IPOD as drive F: - so far, so good. double- 
> click on
> that, and Windows says "please insert a disk for drive F:". huh?  WTF?
> examine properties of drive F:, and it reckons the IPOD is a zero  
> sized
> disk drive.

Was it DOS formatted or HFS+ formatted?  A HFS+ formatted iPod will  
appear like that.  As far as I'm aware there is no specific Windows  
USB driver for the iPod, it just appears as a "USB Mass Storage  
Device", like a USB memory stick or USB hard disk.


Carl.