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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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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I normally just use YamiPod. I'm not complaining, $8 for PodWorks isn't that expensive, but free is cheaper.

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@ 1. Wakkawakka

As I understand it Senuti doesn't support the iPhone.

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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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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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I use ExPod, also free, on Mac and just browse the files on PC.

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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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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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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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Finally someone else with Vivaldi on their iPhone. I'm not alone anymore... and great app by the way.

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