My new ten GB iPod arrived from Amazon yesterday. This is my first portable MP3 player and I am very impressed.

After instaling the apple software, I quickly uninstalled Music Match and the iPod Music Match plug-in and fired up Ephpod. It worked great, allowing me to transfer my music to the iPod at a quick pase. An album took about 15 seconds to transfer.

After loading some music on the iPod, I unmounted it and started listening. The sound quality is great, and it is verry easy to navigate around my music colection.

Other than the crappy Music Match software, my complaints with the ipod are miner. I would rather have mechanical buttons, since the touch buttons are extremely sensitive, requiring me to constantly use the hold switch. The earphones that come with it sound good but tend to fall out when moving around. This is no problem since I already have very good stereo headphones. There is also a small gap in between songs. This is only noticeable if you are listening to an album like Linkin Park's "Meteora" where the songs flow seemlessly between one another on the CD. It is also annoying that the ten GB model does not come with the dock. I plan to use my iPod a lot while it's connected to my home stereo system, so I'm going to have to buy the dock separately.

Overall, I'm very happy with my iPod and would recomend it to anyone who wants a good high capacity MP3 player.