Format support gets tricky, thanks to iTunes. And while we're on that ... and why it might just replace my iPod. But a dedicated music player has only one real job — and that’s playing music ...

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout. Breakout was published in 1976 by Atari ...

Martin Fielder did most of the hard work when it comes to using the iPod Shuffle without iTunes. All you have to do is copy the music over to your Shuffle like a normal mass storage device.

The history of iTunes is full of excitement ... Now at that time, the iPod didn’t exist and playing music from CDs was standard. There were MP3 players, but the industry was still in its ...

The iPod once reigned supreme in the realm of portable music. Hackers are now working on preserving one of its less lauded functions — gaming. [via Ars Technica] The run of 54 titles from 2006 ...

and games no longer appear in iTunes’ search results. In 2010, the iPod classic was the 5th most popular MP3 player in the United States.

The iPod wasn't the only portable MP3 player of its time, it wasn't the cheapest and it wasn't always the biggest capacity. What it did was provide a simple way to organize your music (in iTunes ...

Exactly what Apple was looking for. Apple's new media player was now possible. The first iPod was announced on October 23, 2001. More from Tech ...

Me, with a blue Walkman CD player (a second-grade Christmas ... “The unbeatable combination of iTunes and the market-leading iPod offers music fans a seamless experience for discovering, buying ...