Here you go. This is a rather low quality photo of my Treo 650 screen. I am playing Om Malik's first pod cast. Cool, huh? I bought AeroPlayer yesterday with AAC and MP3 capability.
You can download a lot of free skins, one of which was this one! One major advantage to listening to podcasts or audio books on a Treo is that you have a built-in speaker. I can set the Treo down and listen to it or play it for myself and anyone else in my vicinity. This is a major convenience.
Besides not being able to do an iTunes-driven sync, you can't playback iTunes store AAC music. This is exactly the music I most want to play. There is a way to remove the iTunes DRM using a 3rd-party app which I haven't yet tried but probably will -- knowing me. AeroPlayer has more info if you want it.
In the mean time, yesterday I burned 17 of my favorite iTunes-DRM songs to a CD. Then I imported them back into iTunes as AAC 256. Then I dragged those songs to my Treo SD card and they played fine. Since I don't have a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter, I can't listen to these songs with a high-quality headset but, I have one on order so I can check that out.
Truth is, I'll be listening with my phone/music headset that's on order, so the signal degradation of going from DRM-AAC to CD and then AAC probably won't matter for my purposes.
I knew this, so I didn't spend a lot of time looking for a way to rid my songs of their DRM. I have mixed feelings about doing that and this method still works for my purposes.
Couldn't resist showing you how close one can get to running iTunes on a Treo 650.
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