Yes, here at walki-talki.com, we emphasize how easy our tours are to use with iPods, but we are committed to making tours that work with any music player. That’s why we record and distribute our tours in standard mp3 format so that they are playable just about everywhere. One thing is for certain, however: iTunes sure does make the process of transferring files to the iPod very easy.
Then, the question that may come up is this one: can I use my generic mp3 player with iTunes? The answer is “yes”! Enter iTunes Agent. This is but one of the many wonderful free, open source software titles we will mention in this blog. iTunes Agent is a completely free program that synchronizes your iTunes library with any mp3 player. As you can see in the graphic, you can synchronize your iTunes library with mobile phones, too.
So, if you like the simplicity of iTunes, but you are not impressed by the hype around the iPod, get iTunes Agent, and take your music with you. Better yet, take our self-guided mp3 audio walking tours of your favorite European cities with you.
iTunes agent is for Windows only, so we Apple users will have to wait. 
Payam
Payam’s Place » Blog Archive » Apple’s Ace in the Hole: Music Industry Stupidity | 18-Sep-07 at 5:13 am | Permalink
[...] In other words, the recording industry has elected to challenge Apple’s service–which is functional and portable on Mac and Windows platforms–with a service that is functional only on the Windows platform and portable on no platform: the songs cannot be transported even on Microsoft’s Zune player. Spiralfrog.com seeks to challenge Apple by offering none of the features for which iTunes users are willing to spend hundreds of dollars (on an iPod, iPhone or other media player), and then charging the users by taxing their time in front of the computer. [...]
Dan | 01-Oct-07 at 2:36 am | Permalink
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