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I own four iPods, well 'we' do. I have two 4G disk based iPods and our daughter has a 16Gb Nano. I bought this 32Gb Touch for my other half... but despite the super high ratings and our long history with Apple we are not happy with the Touch.
So what's the problem? iTunes. Neither of us has any like for the way iTunes organizes music. It took me years to fix the damage iTunes did to my music library, helpfulling filing all the collections by artist and thus scattering them across my hard drive. In retrospect I should have tossed all 60Gb and just started ripping the disks again.
So I use WinAmp which manages both my music and my iPods perfectly well. Our daughter has always used iTunes, she knows no better, so she's thoroughly happy with her Nano despite the awful user interface. She used to just keep everything in one huge directory anyway, but then she has a great deal less music than me, a mere 13Gb.
So what is the problem with the Touch? It does not support file transfer mechanisms. So despite having a 1TB network drive with an iTunes server on it the Touch can't see any of the music there. It needs the brain dead iTunes to access the library for it. But the Touch has a perfectly good 802.11 WiFi interface, it can even control the NAS drive through the web interface, but it can't touch the music there.
The Touch also does not support USB Mass Storage, so WinAmp and other 3rd party iPod wrangling software can't do anything with it. Apple tightly control access to their interface specification and are not helping others provide support for their toy.
Now the Touch can be hacked, unlocked and hijacked. There are third party tools that will get round Apple's decision to tie people to their software. I may try those options before I return this piece of high tech jewelry.Get more detail about Apple iPod touch 16 GB (2nd Generation) NEWEST MODEL.