I've been using MediaMonkey with my Gigabeat, and I find it to be one of the most efficient music managers out there. Definitely check it out.
I'm new to Ipods and want to have more control over organizing my music and transfer possibilities than iTunes seems to allow.
There's a lot of 3rd party apps available for this (anapod, ephpod, mediamonkey, idump, etc., etc., but reviews, etc., of these apps seem scant.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

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