Shoutbox

Hello all

i just bought an ipod classic 120GB and am very happy with it.

Question is: i need a good free video converter....one that could convert video at very high quality.

And....maybe a good music manager than itunes? i kinda find it hard to edit tags of my music files on it.

Recommendations are very much appreciated

iTunes is really the best software for managing music for the ipod.  It can take a while to get used to, but I'd stick with it.

As for a converter, try the videora ipod converter.

I'd avoid converting them at very high quality.....you don't need high quality for a screen that is only 2 inches square....you'll just be wasting your memory if you do that.  I download videos straight from YouTube in mp4 format using keepvid for my iPod Touch and they are a perfect quality, at no higher filesize than an equivalent MP3 (with audio only)

For your tagging problems, I find that it's actually better to rip my stuff using EAC and tag them with that. I also prefer it to iTunes for ripping, because it can use any external encoder you like - LAME is widely recommended, using the -v0 setting gives you pretty much the highest quality.

As for high quality, I like high quality too. But I don't watch videos on my iPod. I've used the Videora convertor with PSP Video 9 for PSP before, it was an okay tool.

If you have the same file size as an MP3 Danny, then you must've seriously sacrificed video and audio quality...