A Few More Useful iPod Utilities
Further to my earlier post on how to access your iPod music directly, here are a few more useful bits of free software for iPod owners…
Pod Player 
Pod Player is a freeware application that allows you to play music from your iPod while it is connected to your PC and with with no requirement for iTunes or any of the restrictions that places on accessing your iPod from different PCs.
You'll then be able to views your songs in a similar way as in iTunes (by artist, genre, album, playlist, etc) and you can also extract songs from it. There are a few little extra features such as iPod Hacks, checking for duplicates etc.
Similar utilities worth checking out are Yamipod, Floola, MediaChest
and gtkpod with Floola probably being the best of the bunch and still undergoing continuous development. You might also find it worth keeping an eye on development of Songbird , as it can also access your iPod files. It's based on Firefox and is really a web browser, player and digital jukebox all rolled into one and looks very promising.
vPod
vPod is a program for transferring music to your iPod from Windows. It presents a unified view of all of your music and lets you see what is and what is not already on your iPod.
Similar utilities worth checking out are Ollie's iPod Extractor and Podview.
Wikipedia has a decent comparison table of iPod managers and there's a review of free iPod managers here as well.
CDex
CDex is a CD/Ripper music encoder. CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder and it supports loads of these.
The thing most in its favour is the fact that you can install it on your iPod and run it directly from there so you can use your iPod as a portable CD ripping tool. If used in conjunction with one of the iPod managers above, it'll allow you to transfer the ripped tracks into your iPod music database or you could just copy them onto your PC once back at base and then import them into your music player.
Related Posts: Access Your iPod!, Handbrake Lives Again
Pod Player Pod Player is a freeware application that allows you to play music from your iPod while it is connected to your PC and with with no requirement for iTunes or any of the restrictions that places on accessing your iPod from different PCs.
You'll then be able to views your songs in a similar way as in iTunes (by artist, genre, album, playlist, etc) and you can also extract songs from it. There are a few little extra features such as iPod Hacks, checking for duplicates etc.
Similar utilities worth checking out are Yamipod, Floola, MediaChest
and gtkpod with Floola probably being the best of the bunch and still undergoing continuous development. You might also find it worth keeping an eye on development of Songbird , as it can also access your iPod files. It's based on Firefox and is really a web browser, player and digital jukebox all rolled into one and looks very promising.vPod vPod is a program for transferring music to your iPod from Windows. It presents a unified view of all of your music and lets you see what is and what is not already on your iPod.
Similar utilities worth checking out are Ollie's iPod Extractor and Podview
.Wikipedia has a decent comparison table of iPod managers and there's a review of free iPod managers here as well.
CDex
CDex is a CD/Ripper music encoder. CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder and it supports loads of these.The thing most in its favour is the fact that you can install it on your iPod and run it directly from there so you can use your iPod as a portable CD ripping tool. If used in conjunction with one of the iPod managers above, it'll allow you to transfer the ripped tracks into your iPod music database or you could just copy them onto your PC once back at base and then import them into your music player.
Related Posts: Access Your iPod!, Handbrake Lives Again
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