Serious alternative to the Classic?

[Weerez935]

Originally Posted by Machentse

I reluctantly find myself in the position of looking for an alternative to my iPod Classic. I need an mp3 player that will allow bi directional transfer of contents. I made the dreadful mistake of loading all my music tracks to my iPod from my PC.

Then my PC died and had to be replaced, only then did I find out that I cannot retrieve the music from my iPod in a usable format. Apple have this almost fanatical mantra of "lock the customers in" then squeeze them.

Well Apple, this is one customer that you have pushed away, your lock in has pushed me away. What is worst, is that all the music is paid for.

Please Apple purists, no insults, if you cant offer a reasonable alternative, then don;t reply.

Synuti and phoneview are great apps for this. Phoneview obviously is for the newer devices and synuti for the classic. Synuti gives you 1000 free songs transferred before requiring a license.

But a way around that is to download the trial on multiple computers then burn CDs / upload to yours. However it's only 30$ for the full version I believe

[TheMTtakeover]

Originally Posted by MacRumorUser

Shoulda gone with iTunes Match . $25 and all your music stored away on cloud should you ever need to recover....

Also how could you not retrieve your music, on an iPod and a PC its fairly easy to recover music off an iPod.

I'm sure if he spent even a small amount of time trying he would be able to get the music off.

[ianwuk]

I do not think there is a replacement for this and is most likely why Apple still sells them. I just bought another new anyway, I love having my entire music collection in one place.