I own an Ipod that was given to me as a gift. It's the 8Gig nano. I like it for what it does, but I hate having to use Itunes to access your music. What I did is I have a CD backup of every album in a book, and a 500 gig external Hard drive with all my shit on there. I have bought a few songs from I tunes, but I always put it on a cd. I'll sound like a govt conspiracist, but I don't like Apple having control over my stuff.