Skip to Content

iPodDisk

In honor of His Steveness' disdain for DRM, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight a little app that makes getting music off of your iPod easy as pie. Sure, there are a number of ways of accessing the music that resides on your iPod but iPodDisk combines two killer features: free and easy.

That's right, if you have your iPod set to disk mode, iPodDisk allows you to browse, and copy, all the music that is on it (for backup purposes only, of course). It even offers Spotlight support, which is pretty awesome.

iPodDisk is free, but it is a PPC app at the moment, a Universal Binary is on the way shortly.

[via one digital life]


Categories

iPod Family Software

In honor of His Steveness' disdain for DRM, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight a little app that makes getting music off of...
 

Add a Comment

*0 / 3000 Character Maximum

12 Comments

Filter by:
Isaac Huang

Latest iPodDisk updates:
1. universal binary is available, finally.
2. it's now ported to MacFUSE.

See:
http://ipoddisk.ourbiti.com/index.php/2007/03/02/new-ipoddisk-experimental-build/

March 01 2007 at 2:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rob.durnford

Undercover from rixstep
http://rixstep.com/4/0/undercover/
a newer product offers a newer format for acess to hidden info and its file management system Xfile has offered access to all of the files on iPods and your computer since its first introduction for OSX. They also offer Clix which is a great replacment for the command line terminal app. A happy user!

February 07 2007 at 12:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oliv

Excellent app! Simple. Better than Senuti or Yamipod

February 07 2007 at 2:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kai Cherry

I actually need to get with the guy that did this on doing another universal build, or at minimum, modify the one i did before so that it runs on current OS version(s). Its a bit of inflexible detection code that prevents it from launching.

I'll see what i can do in the next 2-3 days

-K

February 06 2007 at 10:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tj

I'll stick with senuti. It is simple enough for me. Don't need to see my music in disk mode.

February 06 2007 at 9:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

Been using this for years...

not really, but its a good app

February 06 2007 at 7:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adrian

This a application seems to be a couple of shell script and a WebDAV server to make it visible as "filesystem" in OSX. Clever approach... :)

Since Google released MacFUSE, there's now a better way to provide a versatile access to the iPod's database through a filesystem.
Actually, there is a FUSE filesystem that does just that:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fusepod

However, OSX packages, even patches or building instructions for the lesser adept amongst us of FUSE filesystem for OSX are still rare. I hope this will change as development continues. I just played a bit with MacFUSE and it can provide a really cool approach to a lot of things.

February 06 2007 at 6:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

A nice feature of this software is that it shows you the metadata info as the file and folder instead of the iPod's unintelligible file system.

I am curious to know how this was achieved.

February 06 2007 at 5:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nick ustinov

here is universal binary version for this app

http://web.mac.com/kaicherry/iWeb/TheCabaal/Dark%20Ten/126F8796-349B-410B-B430-018B8AF1784E.html

February 06 2007 at 5:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wahoo scott

i've used senuti in the past. dead simple. http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/

February 06 2007 at 4:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Buy an ad here

Hot Apps on TUAW

Tweets

© 2012 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved.