When you buy electronics, many times you fall prey to the marketing hype. Other times you have a real need and desire for the features of a particular device. Even then, those needs may shift over time.

I am a big fan of Apple products. I over time have accumulated a couple of iPods, laptops and other Apple accessories. These days I don’t use iTunes all that much though. The only reason I was using it was to rotate music on my old 20GB iPod.

Since I didn’t really need iTunes for much, I thought I would experiment a little. I chose a program called Rockbox to replace the software on my iPod. Let me tell you, it is super easy to install and works really well.
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