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When I received my new iPod, I was impressed with the sound quality vs. the old 1st gen Nano I have. (The original iPods were very "middy" sounding.) But that is about all that is good with the unit. The new 5th generation is incompatible with everything I own. My car's radio has iPod integration which worked with my original iPod and my friends 4th generation unit, however, the newest iPods are incompatible. My home receiver also has an iPod dock which doesn't work with the new unit. You also cannot add music for playback under Linux (at the moment. It's being worked on.) Apple changed how they store music on the iPod, in what can only be described, as attempt to keep 3rd party applications form working. (Let's face it, iTunes has become a horrible, bloated and slow application.) If all this wasn't bad enough, the thing keeps locking up. When I'm listening to MP3s or the radio, it just automatically resets and the music library is erased. I then have to refill the unit with the songs from my PC. And after a few more minutes of listening, it resets again erasing everything. I have sent it back twice and I still have the problem. (A friend of mine bought a new Nano and he is also having the reset problem.) Apple, why would you make a product that is incompatible with the expansive collection of accessories that people have invested in? Is anybody there monitoring quality of your products anymore?