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professorhat:

Fair enough. (never seen iTunes rename a file anything like this though. Confusingly, they're normally called the song title).

No you wont see that name, its done internally. I installed the Rockbox firmware on the iPod, and it enables you to see the files themselves, rather than the fields from the DB that iPods use.

If it was my iPod, I would have stuck with that firmware too. But as well as being more powerful, it's less easy to use, so my missus didn't like it... ho hum

OK - I have no real desire to drag and drop files to and from the player, so this isn't an issue - and since I can't find anything that will do accuraterip for Mac, I'm kind of stuck with ALAC - but I just think the user interface is really, really good, both in design and responsiveness (this from someone who's read all 700 pages of the MS windows interface design guidelines.....).

What we really need is for Apple to open up the iTunes architecture to enable plugins (for FLAC, for example), in the same way that they've done with Aperture.......