Yeah, Ogg support would certainly be nice, although I also have a hardware MP3 player in my living room so I have to maintain my collection in MP3 format for that as well. If I could have gone completely Ogg, though, I would have.
The iPod, to be fair to it, is significantly less unhelpful when used as an iPod rather than as a back end for a car stereo. I don't think it was really designed for the latter, so I can't blame it for not being well adapted to that environment. Instead I have to blame all the stereo manufacturers who decided it was the Right Thing.
(That's another positive point I didn't list above, of course: the Dension hard disk was just a hard disk cartridge, but the Alpine's iPod can be taken out and used as an iPod. But I don't generally seem to have much use for a walking-around music player, so it didn't strike me as enough of a plus point to bother listing.)
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The iPod, to be fair to it, is significantly less unhelpful when used as an iPod rather than as a back end for a car stereo. I don't think it was really designed for the latter, so I can't blame it for not being well adapted to that environment. Instead I have to blame all the stereo manufacturers who decided it was the Right Thing.
(That's another positive point I didn't list above, of course: the Dension hard disk was just a hard disk cartridge, but the Alpine's iPod can be taken out and used as an iPod. But I don't generally seem to have much use for a walking-around music player, so it didn't strike me as enough of a plus point to bother listing.)