i dream of this mp3-player, that basically is an ipod because i love the design and many of its functions and how its a neat package together with itunes, BUT on the other hand it irritates me in a lot of fundamental areas. first of all its the price and then its the plus-prices that you have to pay for the accesories that in many other products would be included. and i hate things that restrict you to using only that brand products because of compabilities. really really hate 
. yeah fuck that 
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so i want a product that would be just as neat as an ipod, but that would also be an opensource product, because that would really keep it open and inovative. like right now i have a creative player and using it i often get ideas while wishing for some functionality that would just make it sooo much easier in that particullar situation. and if this company making these players would have this forum where users could write suggestions and other users then could feedback and at the same time the company employees would watch all this and they could try it out. OH YEAh and you could even as a user just lay down the money and have the company make the software you want and have it your way. wouldnt that just be cool.
This player would of course play all your filetypes and NOT be restricted to only fucking itunes and mp3. it would of course promote the best and preferrably opensource types because thats just what i would love, but in the end it would just be the best type because things would always get debated on the website.
and then about the store. i think something like a mixture of your online musicstore and youtube kind of thing would be really cool. but the cool thing would be that you ‘d only have to pay for your file once and you would always have access to that song. you could always download it or you could always listen to it anyplace with a connection, which will be everywhere in 5 years i guess, because you will just log on the database and stream all the music you already payed for from the main server. that would also make it possible to allow you even cd-quality streaming when the bandwidth gets to that point. i think that even the player should have a connection so that you could just listen to what you wanted and you could even shop for more music, audiobooks or whatever, OR you could create your own radiostation in the likes of www.pandora.com. yeah!
and because this place would such and open place it would have made agreements with all kind of places where artist make their stuff available for free or are in public domain like http://librivox.org. So you could always get exploring the richness thats available outthere.
I am really looking forward to this
