Manage your iPod sans iTunes with Floola

Adam Pash over at lifehacker has a great post up on managing your iPod without iTunes. The post focuses on cross-platform tools for adding music and video to your iPod from practically any computer, the most interesting of which is Floola. Floola has a bunch of features, allowing you to copy music (in both directions), manage playlists, podcasts, etc. Best of all, Floola can be installed on your iPod (you must enable disk usage to run Floola), so you can run it on any computer you happen to have access to (including, if you are rather unfortunate, a Windows PC) directly from the iPod. In addition to Floola, Adam also mentions running myPodder, again directly from your iPod, to manage your podcast subscriptions, as well as some Windows specific tools. I'm not quite ready to give up iTunes just yet, but if you carry an iPod back and forth between two computers, as I do, Adam definitely has some good suggestions.

Floola is a free download, but donations are requested. myPodder is also a free download, but you must register with podcastready in order to use it.

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Goobimama

Yamipod is buggy. Screws up every time...

February 21 2007 at 5:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

It doesn't make any difference. Norway's complaint doesn't involve the end-user software itself.

The Norwegian Ombudsman's complaint involves three things that have to do with the store, the first is the lock-in, second is that the terms say that terms are coverned by English law, not Norwegian law like a transaction in Norway should be handled, and the third is that Apple can change your rights regarding a purchase after you've made the purchase. Most of the discussions ignore the last two problems.

This is far from the first third-party iPod music management software, and apparently at least the second one for OS X. There is even an iPod plug-in for that old WinAMP software.

February 21 2007 at 6:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

shawnpetriw

You can, buy why would you?

None the less, did Norway see this?

February 21 2007 at 2:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

poweruser

There is YamiPod ( http://www.yamipod.com/ ) too.

February 21 2007 at 2:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply