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I'm about ready to toss mine in the lake. If you get a new computer why can't you plug the sonsofbitches in and synch it right up? Stupid device. I own the rights to all my music and I have to resort to a crack or hack to place them where I want to listen to them?



I guess it has to do with rights management, and making sure people who buy licenses to music only use it as intended (according to the anal rightsholders). They also get to do some nicer tricks with the database they use to store the file data, rather than relying on files and folders as provided by the user alone.

There are lots of good (non-iTunes) programs that can get songs on and off iPods; most of em aren't even hacks or hard to use. Let me know if you need some recommendations.