Not a Mac person as in you just don't own one (in which case, I don't think you'd have a problem, as I believe iTunes for Windows works reasonably well and my iPod owning friends who use PCs have never complained to me about compatibility), or not a Mac person as in you dislike Apple products/Mac computers? In which case I'd be considering a non-iPod music player, as iPods feel just as Apple-y in design to me as other Apple products.
Mostly, I think it depends what you store your music in on your computer. For me an iPod was a logical choice because my computers were Macs and so I was already using iTunes to store, sort and play all my digital music, therefore the least fussiest music player was the one made to integrate with iTunes software. My housemate has grown up with an anti-Mac techy father, and so she never used iTunes when the rest of us started using it, and so a Windows Media Player compatible player made more sense for her. 'Friad I can't give advice on non-iPods and the easiest music library software to use as I went for the laziest and most logical combination, but I think your choice of library software probably has a lot more bearing than whether you use a Mac or a PC.
One other potential point of interest, just from personal experience in comparing myself and my anti-Mac housemate, is that I've only ever had my video iPod and I've seen her go through practically a bazillion different players in the same time frame. Can't remark on the brands/make/quality of the actual players she's used, but for whatever reason her choices seem to wear out on her while my iPod just keeps chugging along. Not to mention, changing between new players/brands means a new player seems to require her to sit there and swear at her screen while trying to get the hang of the new syncing/playlist system if it doesn't accept Windows Media Player playlists and whatever else. Just one comparative experience though, and disclaimered by my love of my Apple products.
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Mostly, I think it depends what you store your music in on your computer. For me an iPod was a logical choice because my computers were Macs and so I was already using iTunes to store, sort and play all my digital music, therefore the least fussiest music player was the one made to integrate with iTunes software. My housemate has grown up with an anti-Mac techy father, and so she never used iTunes when the rest of us started using it, and so a Windows Media Player compatible player made more sense for her. 'Friad I can't give advice on non-iPods and the easiest music library software to use as I went for the laziest and most logical combination, but I think your choice of library software probably has a lot more bearing than whether you use a Mac or a PC.
One other potential point of interest, just from personal experience in comparing myself and my anti-Mac housemate, is that I've only ever had my video iPod and I've seen her go through practically a bazillion different players in the same time frame. Can't remark on the brands/make/quality of the actual players she's used, but for whatever reason her choices seem to wear out on her while my iPod just keeps chugging along. Not to mention, changing between new players/brands means a new player seems to require her to sit there and swear at her screen while trying to get the hang of the new syncing/playlist system if it doesn't accept Windows Media Player playlists and whatever else. Just one comparative experience though, and disclaimered by my love of my Apple products.