Floola is a multi-platform freeware replacement for iTunes which adds some much needed features that iTunes does not offer. Before you can use Floola you need to prepare your iPod and enable it to work as a portable hard drive. A good walkthrough of the different steps can be found at the official Apple website. When that is done you need to configure iTunes to manages songs and playlists manually.
Floola has some major advantages over iTunes – it is faster and more responsive, can copy music to and from the iPod to your computer, can be run right from the iPod to use it everywhere, has methods to fix the iPod and is able to search for files and duplicates.
The major disadvantage is of course the missing link to the iTunes music store, if you never use it – like I do – you won’t miss it. If you have troubles using Floola download the user guide which explains the basic features thoroughly.
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The only thing that iTunes doesn’t have it an instant playlist generator – or thematic shuffle and I find that The Filter works really well for that.
If I was going to swap media players it would be to Songbird.
Thanks sully_milly – that looks very interesting indeed =)
will be trying that out this week!
silly_milly*
Looks really promising but when I try to run it my PC hangs. It’s hogging 75% of my CPU (p4 3.0) and about 250MB of RAM.
I’ll try it on my home PC instead and see what happens.
Couldn’t get used to Floola…
but on my travels i did come across a tool quite handy for any MAC & PC owners out there!
http://desktopecho.com/tsclientx/
Terminal Services Client for MAC so you can remote to Windows based PC. Quite useful i think :P
Floola 5 is cool. I can completely manage every aspect of my ipod better, and quicker than iTunes. It even automatically converts my videos that I drag and drop into it to mp4.
Songbird 1.1.1 + Floola 5 = iTunes replacement.
can you download your music from your computer to your ipod as well?
As one of the thousands who found itunes horrible to use, Floola was a godsend. Bottom line is, Apple designed itunes/ipods to get them more money without caring about ease of use for their customers. Floola brilliantly fixes this allowing multiple ipods (with different owners) to be used on the same computer with ease.
Floola destroys itunes IMHO.