Filed under: iPod Family, Software
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
NitRam Den Gale said 4:46PM on 2-06-2007
UB version available shortly you say?! I have been waiting for a UB version for 3 months... (I have yet to try out another software I downloaded though, but check out Senuti anyways...)
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Ross said 4:52PM on 2-06-2007
There's also a free program called yamipod that does this, and I think it does it without the ipod being in disk mode.
http://www.yamipod.com
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wahoo scott said 4:55PM on 2-06-2007
i've used senuti in the past. dead simple. http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/
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nick ustinov said 5:01PM on 2-06-2007
here is universal binary version for this app
http://web.mac.com/kaicherry/iWeb/TheCabaal/Dark%20Ten/126F8796-349B-410B-B430-018B8AF1784E.html
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Leonard Nimrod said 5:07PM on 2-06-2007
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.
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Adrian said 6:30PM on 2-06-2007
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.
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brian said 7:03PM on 2-06-2007
Been using this for years...
not really, but its a good app
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Tj said 9:20PM on 2-06-2007
I'll stick with senuti. It is simple enough for me. Don't need to see my music in disk mode.
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Kai Cherry said 11:21PM on 2-06-2007
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
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Oliv said 2:15AM on 2-07-2007
Excellent app! Simple. Better than Senuti or Yamipod
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Robert Durnford said 1:35PM on 2-07-2007
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!
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Isaac Huang said 2:38PM on 3-01-2007
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/
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