Turn your Walkman phone into an iTunes phone

So the iTunes Motorola ROKR phone doohickey isn't aimed at my demographic. Boo hoo. Besides, I grew up in the age of the Walkman. I think we all (over here in MacLand) agree Sony dropped the ball something fierce with their attempts to revive the Walkman brand though, right? Do you call them WalkCasts? And I can't be the only one to find humor in the fact that ATRAC rhymes with another audio tech failure...

But for those of you who couldn't keep your mitts off Sony's Walkman series phones (and I'll admit they're kinda cool), but still use iTunes, here's some good news. It's only been tested on the W800 (Engadget review here), but iTuneMyWalkman is a little script that'll put selected AAC and MP3 files on your Sony phone, lickety-split. Obviously it won't work with iTMS purchased songs, or Apple Lossless, or AIFF, but why split hairs?

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So the iTunes Motorola ROKR phone doohickey isn't aimed at my demographic. Boo hoo. Besides, I grew up in the age of the Walkman. I think...

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Po0py

I'm currently giving this a whirl with my k750i + 512mb card. Seems to be working but I advise you to clean your card of any mp3's for your first attempt as it doesn't seem to like mp3's that haven't got there by anything other than iTuneMyWalkman. But since this seems to be working just fine I see no reason to import mp3s using any other method.

September 21 2005 at 8:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

phi

there are 2 other solutions for the mac: SyncTunes (freeware) http://www.nesfield.co.uk/synctunes/ Dreamsicle (shareware) http://kaisakura.com/dreamsicle.html

September 21 2005 at 9:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cyberwhore

I always wished that SE had of teamed up with Apple for the iTunes phone instead of Motorola. There was probably no chance of that ever happening but you can dream. SE will have my money for one of these soon but I wonder if Apple will break this hack with a future update of iTunes?

September 21 2005 at 7:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Carniphage

The K750i and the W800i are essentially the same phone. It is an astonishing phone, much better than the Motorola effort. It has the fastest Java execution of almost any handheld device. 2MP camera. 3D engine. Lots of software available including Opera Mini - and Instant messaging clients. Carni

September 21 2005 at 5:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wheels

Do ATRAC files stop in the middle to switch tracks? God, 8 track tapes - more proof of the whacky drugs people were doing back in the 70s. If we were doing those kind of drugs now, we all would want digital cameras and MP3 players in our cell phones. Oh wait...

September 20 2005 at 11:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ed Kapuscinski

Thats a great point, but here's another one, there's a program called jhymn that will strip out the "features" that won't let you play the file on your phone.

September 20 2005 at 10:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jack

I'm going to just velcro an iPod nano to my cellphone and call it a day.

September 20 2005 at 10:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply