Wadia 170i transport experience?

Dumb question, but I really do not understand something.I have been an Audiophile for my whole life , but computers are a new thing for me.

My daughter bought me for Fathers day a Minin Ipod Shuffle, (the type that clips on to a shirt) to play my tunes while cutting the 13 Acres of grass.

Anyway, I downloaded about 500 songs to I tunes and the Ipod shuffle works great!

But, to go further, and say I buy a I POD Classic 120 and the Wadia Docking station.
Wouldnt I have to store thousands of my songs onto my computer before down loading them into the new Ipod Classic 120 ?

Wouldnt that take up a large portion of my Computers hard drive to do this?

Wouldnt I have to store thousands of my songs onto my computer before down loading them into the new Ipod Classic 120 ?

Wouldnt that take up a large portion of my Computers hard drive to do this?

Yes and yes.

That said, another option is to purchase an external hard drive and process all your iTunes on that.

Brianmgrarcom , Thank you for the help.
I guess I need to get in touch with the Computer generation.

i've been using the 170i > musical fidelity tri vista 21 DAC for a week. I don't know if the run in period is still not passed yet or the 170i is passing too much information to my DAC. I found it sound pretty harsh and the lower notes are not as noticible compares to using a traditional CDP (I'm using musical fidelity A3.2 cdp as transport)I hope it can sound the way i want it to in another week or i'll return it.

I would say something else is going on as I doubt there is much break-in needed with it; I find it interesting and odd all the varying results people have as all mine have been positive, and that while comparing a couple other setups. Do you know if the MF DAC reclocks the signal?