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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 1194252" data-attributes="member: 527">Some ramblings about my experiences with the whole iPod v. Windows thing; hopefully they'll be helpful to someone out there:  ;-)My situation was this: I bought an iPod and I had a collection of MP3s on a 933MHz Win2000 machine.  Now, the iPod wants to dock to your computer via Firewire, which is not very common on the PC side of things, so I immediately formatted my iPod as a Mac device and then hooked it to my wife's G4.  It was sorta painful, but I could transfer my MP3 collection on to her machine via our LAN and then DL it to the iPod.  But I craved independence.  I looked into a couple of those utilities that recognize Mac-formatted drives; this would allow me to run the Mac-formatted iPod on both her machine and on my machine.  (Except for the Firewire issue.  I bought a iPod connector at the Apple store with both USB 2.0 and Firewire.  Sadly the 933 MHz is so old it has only USB 1.0.  Definitely something to be aware of if you have older windows machines.)  Just as I was about to DL some mac-drive software, my wife sent me a note saying Apple had released iTunes for Windows.  Hmm, intruiguing.  I had installed Music Match, but not really liked it, so I tried out iTunes.  I liked it, but of course, now my iPod was mac-formatted and would have to be re-formatted to run on the Win2K machine.  I decided to do the reformat and then migrate all of my stuff to another Win2K machine that had USB2.0 ports.  The re-format went fine, and I've been using Win2K, USB2.0, iPod and iTunes happily for about two weeks now.  The point of all of this really is that the area of PC-compatibility is still a bit rougher for the iPod than is mac-compatibility.  It works fine in the end, but make sure you understand the journey before you start.  ;-)</blockquote>

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