Filed under: iPod Family, Software, iPhone
PodWorks now works with your iPhone
PodWorks is one of those apps that you don't know you need... until you need it. This $8 app allows you to copy music from your iPod to your Mac. 'Wait', I hear you saying, 'isn't that what happens when I connect my iPod to my Mac anyway? You're dumb, this post is dumb, and so is this app.' Hold your horses, my impatient rhetorical device! PodWorks allows you to copy music from your iPod to any other Mac without having to sync it to iTunes.
I'm sure you're aware that Apple, and the major content producers, imagine the iPod/iTunes relationship thusly:
- Buy an iPod (or iPhone).
- Buy lots and lots of music and videos from iTunes
- Sync your iPod/iPhone with one iTunes library
- Reach nirvana
I have recommended PodWorks to scores of people, and I recommend it to you. It is well worth the $8 price tag.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WakkaWakka said 4:14PM on 9-04-2007
Why would you bother with spending $8 on this when you can just use Senuti for free? It does the exact same thing. This is barely news worthy, apps for copying from iPod to Mac have been around forever and iPhone implementation was inevitable.
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Scott McNulty said 4:22PM on 9-04-2007
Van Souza, I find that Vivaldi is great work out music (and very enjoyable most any time really).
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Michael said 4:26PM on 9-04-2007
Yes, Scott, I'd assume you're right. I think Apple must have hidden the iPod_Control directory, where the music is stored, to appease the record labels. And, presumably, so far as the record labels are concerned if your hard drive fails hard luck on you.
Of course, you don't need an application to do this: you can simply copy the songs back off the iPod onto the hard drive at the command line interface:
cp -R /Volumes//iPod_Control ~
And then use File > Add to Library from iTunes' menu.
However, I suppose the price for the app is low and, looking at the description on Version Tracker, it would probably do the operation more quickly for you -- and in an interactive way, if you needed that. The developer says:
"Many other standalone iPod song transfer utilities work by reading song data out of every song on the iPod--a slow process. PodWorks, by contrast, reads its data directly from the iPod's internal database, resulting in nearly instantaneous display of your song list."
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byaah said 5:13PM on 9-04-2007
I normally just use YamiPod. I'm not complaining, $8 for PodWorks isn't that expensive, but free is cheaper.
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A said 5:21PM on 9-04-2007
@ 1. Wakkawakka
As I understand it Senuti doesn't support the iPhone.
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Heli said 5:47PM on 9-04-2007
Scott, being that you love PodWorks so much, you should spend the 8 bucks and get yourself a registered copy :)
And please let's not forget Bach, and Beethoven, and Brahms, and the other greats. Having your music in someone's iPhone 300 years after you made it is better than topping any Billboard chart!
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djangoman said 7:05PM on 9-04-2007
The simplest I use and LOVE is iPodDisk. It's free and mounts your iPod just as if it's another drive. It's also super nice in that it is organized just like the iPod's menu system with Playlists, Artists, Albums, and Genre. A GREAT app.
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Dale said 8:49PM on 9-04-2007
I use ExPod, also free, on Mac and just browse the files on PC.
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HervéSainct said 8:01AM on 9-05-2007
You have the free, cross-platform, little app Floola that does this and much more*, its footprint is so small than I just keep both mac/PC/unix versions right on the Ipod from which I directly launch it, on *any* machine I can plug the iPod in...
(*) fully replaces iTunes just with no possibility to buy songs on the Music Store nor Airport straming; everything else is supported (song ratings, cover art... and cross-compatible with iTunes btw)
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Buzz Andersen said 5:06PM on 9-06-2007
I think a lot of you are missing the fact that those other iPod transfer apps you mention don't work with the iPhone. For example, Senuti, does not. As far as I know, PodWorks is the only Mac iPod transfer app that works with the iPhone.
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Jeff said 3:29AM on 10-30-2007
is there an application that will let my get my songs off my IPHONE not an ipod and put them on to my PC not a mac?
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Van Souza said 11:20AM on 11-24-2007
Finally someone else with Vivaldi on their iPhone. I'm not alone anymore... and great app by the way.
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