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Rip CDs Directly to Your iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-ready-for-someone-to-toss-a-lawsuit dept.

Kevin writes "A company out of Taiwan has released a device that rips audio cds directly to your iPod. It converts them to MP3 and even does all the tagging for you." Zettabyte, the company producing the units, hopes to hit market within the year and while it could work for any MP3 player, it is being marketed exclusively for the iPod right now.

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  1. One thing by Mille+Mots · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why buy something to do something that you already have a computer to do it? This is not something that is completely portable either. Honestly I just don't see much use for it - "oh no, I don't want to have to use iTunes or [insert CDripper software] to make mp3s!

    Well, what if you're at a friend's house and (s)he, uh, sells you an old CD. Yeah, sells it to you. But, you don't want to take the actual CD with you, because you're afraid your car will get broken in to. So, you, you know, agree to leave the actual, physical CD at your friend's house, for, you know, safe keeping. You'll probably get it later, anyway. But, you'd really like to have those tracks on your iPod, like, now. So, you whip out your iUpload device, plug it into your iPod and blam!, now you have your newly purchased, perfectly legal music in your iPod.

    So, there you go, one reason why you would buy something to do something you already have a computer to do. And it's perfectly legal!

    Maybe.

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  2. Re:Small market... by FFON · · Score: 3, Funny

    computer? i'm typing this from my ipod right now!

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  3. Re:Automatic playlists? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can Winamp sell me a poor-quality rip of an album for $10? No? How about a sub-NTSC rip of last night's Leno monologue for $2? No? BZZT! NOT USING IT!

    </pretentious-fanboy>

  4. Whooosh! by 93,000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, dude. Had to.

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