Use an iPod as a USB drive ?

[J. Scott Saults]

Maybe late and off-topic - so I apologize (and do NOT mean to start a 
discussion here about this) - but just thought Alex might want to know that 
it is possible, with some iPods, to just drag and drop mp3 files (and Ogg 
Vorbis, Musepack, FLAC, AAC, ALAC, AC3 and WavPack) on your player and play 
them. And you can use (some) iPods as a standard UMS device, without 
iTunes, but not with the stock firmware. Look into 'rockbox': 
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox (Maybe iPodLinux, 
too, but don't know much about that)
>I came across a reference that said "I wish iPod could do this like
>other MP3 players and let you just copy files over like you do to any
>USB drive", which left me unsure that it could work that way.
>her