Nope, not true. I use Realplayer with my Ipod, very user friendly..especially compared to Itunes, which I can never get to work for me. In fact I have a library on both, and yesterday I messed around with Itunes for a long, long time trying to sync my DS9's new IPod Nano he got for his birthday. I switched over to Realyplayer and had his music on within a few seconds.
http://www.realplayer.com/