3rd Generation iPod Nano write support?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:35:22AM -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
>>   
>>> Not so fast! I recently read an article on PC magazine onlne about how 
>>> to close user accounts with many online services,. In the article they 
>>> claim that if you first burn those mp3's to CD as audio files [which 
>>> involves converting them to CD music file types] and then rip the 
>>> resulting CD back to mp3 format files, it legally removes the DRM from 
>>> them. They were specifically talking about Itunes at that point in the 
>>> article.
>>>     
>> There are several issues here. First, I've never seen mp3's from
>> iTunes. They are all m4a or somesuch format. If you burn those to cd,
>> they won't play. They have to be converted first. AFAIK, you can
>> convert the non-DRM (the newer stuff) to mp3's, but not the older DRM
>> stuff. 
>>
>>   
>     I have an old RCA iPOD that was cheap at Wal Mart. It says RCA on it 
> but it was made in China, surprise? 

I'm not sure how it directly relates to the topic, but at any rate if it 
says RCA it's not an iPod...just a generic MP3 player from the sounds of it.