I have an Alpine car stereo deck, which supports the iPod interface with cable (the advantage being the iPod will charge while it’s plugged into the deck). I can’t for the life of me figure out how to navigate the thing via the alpine deck (nearly got in two accidents trying). I simply hit Random and let it play while driving.

This was the only reason I bought an iPod. I hate the iTunes interface, requiring you to use their software instead of simply copying over files on the iPod. The real kicker is that it duplicates all the songs you add to your iPod in it’s own folder, taking up twice the disk space.

I’ve heard that the Creative NOMAD Zen Xtra (up to 60gb drive for price of 20gb iPod), doesn’t require you to use their software (if anyone has one, please let me know if this is true). I’d rather just copy the albums over to the Zen rather than installing some lame software to do it for me.

The real necessity, keeping me from buying a Zen is that I know of zero car stereo decks which support it. I know I could get an FM Transmitter, but I like how the Alpine iPod/MP3 deck will charge it while it’s plugged in, as it does when plugged into your pc.