itunes is free

you dont understand when i talk about the KBPS, yes it can play it, but it cant store as much high quality rips due to them taking up alot of space

once again, im not fighting you if i bought an mp3 player now, it wouldent be an ipod.

I got Mine LONG AGO before ANYONE heard of ipod, back when its competitors were 50 megabyte flash mp3 players. IPOD was the best 4 or however many years ago when i bought it, i forget