[elitiste]

Hi all, I have really had it with iTunes. As many have said, it really is just a front to sell music. I am really sick and tired of this piece of software from "Applesoft" who is always trying to strategically dominate how I play, store and buy my music.

I have a 160GB 6th Gen iPod Classic that I bought in October 2009. Because iTunes has been such a pain, I'm only using a small fraction of the storage space. Could anybody suggest a way to work around iTunes so that I can load music onto my iPod?

 

[krmathis]

Manage iPod - Google Search
Lots of third-party applications out there allowing you to manage the iPod without iTunes.

 

[elitiste]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Manage iPod - Google Search Lots of third-party applications out there allowing you to manage the iPod without iTunes.

Thanks. Any really good ones that people have recommended?

 

[Gbak]

If you use Windows, you can sync with both Winamp and foobar2000. For the first, you will need ml_ipod. It's a straight forward process - read the documentation before all - and it gives you the ability to also download songs from your ipod if needed. For the latter there is great info here.

This would be the players I would recommend, there are other option as well if you research.

If you use Gnu/Linux, there are not many options for QT: Amarok is the way for GTK: gtkpod or Banshee. Everything else is utterly useless - and I say that from experience.

 

[Marcus_C]

I'm planning on going back to an ipod and plan to use that foobar plugin "ipod manager". I havent got the ipod yet but from reading on the hydrogen audio forum it sounds simplicity itself. Give foobar a go if you havent already, it works really well and is much more user friendly than it used to be so it is useable as soon as you download it.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by elitiste /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks. Any really good ones that people have recommended?

YamiPod maybe, since it support both Mac OS X and MS Windows.

 

[james444]

If you're using Windows, look no further than Mediamonkey.

 

[ChromeJob]

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Originally Posted by elitiste /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks. Any really good ones that people have recommended?

Been using Media Monkey since the first week I had my first iPod (6.2G Classic, 12/25/09). I like it so much I've bought a lifetime warranty. It does more than sync, it is a robust application for managing a huge library of files.[1] It has a few faults and idiosyncracies, but for the most part, it's super-keen-o.

[1] I haven't taste-tested a lot of the alternatives, so others mentioned might be just as good. But after reading several reviews and blogs comparing 3rd party iPod-ware which called Media Monkey "the gold standard," I settled on it.

 

[tds101]

J.River Media Jukebox works w/the iPod as well.

 

[alamakazam]

I use sharepod

 

[tds101]

If you had a Zune, you'd be screwed. Seems the iPod isn't as "restricted" as most claim, huh? And yes, I own both.

 

[12thgear]

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Originally Posted by nywytboy68 /img/forum/go_quote.gif If you had a Zune, you'd be screwed. Seems the iPod isn't as "restricted" as most claim, huh? And yes, I own both.

The iPod's still pretty restricted. It's just so popular there's money in making alternatives to iTunes. I don't think the lack of third party Zune software solutions should be seen as an indictment of the quality of the Zune.

All that said, I like iTunes and find it to actually be pretty useful.

 

[labrat]

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[zenpunk]

What kind of macho are you? My girlfriend is an IT engineer and my mum a micro-biologist. Thank you. Go back to your cave..

 

[labrat]

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