gHacks technology news » apple ipod http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Pod To PC Transfers Data From iPods And iPhone To PC http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/10/pod-to-pc-transfers-data-from-ipods-and-iphone-to-pc/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/10/pod-to-pc-transfers-data-from-ipods-and-iphone-to-pc/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:38:46 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/10/pod-to-pc-transfers-data-from-ipods-and-iphone-to-pc/ Pod To PC is a free software program to transfer data from any kind of iPod or iPhone to a computer. It supports all generations of the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPod Video, iPod Nano, iPod and iPod Shuffle making it an universal tool to transfer data from those mobile devices to a PC.

The software will run on any PC with Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista installed. The only other requirement is an installation of Apple’s iTunes software. Pod To PC can copy music, videos and playlists from a supported device to the computer. Music and videos can be previewed and filtered on the iPod or iPhone prior to transferring them.

One interesting option is to automatically transfer all music and video files to the computer that are not already available in the local installation of iTunes. This makes it ideal to sync music and video collections. Could also be handy if you had to reinstall the operating system or iTunes on a computer after a crash to transfer all the music and videos back to the computer from the iPod or iPhone.

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Duplicate tracks will not be copied. It is furthermore possible to copy full or partial playlists. All the related meta information such as ratings will also be transferred and preserved.

Pod To PC is an interesting software program for Windows users looking for a software to transfer data from an iPod or iPhone to the PC.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/10/pod-to-pc-transfers-data-from-ipods-and-iphone-to-pc/feed/ 8 Free iTunes Alternative Froddle Pod http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/17/free-itunes-alternative-froddle-pod/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/17/free-itunes-alternative-froddle-pod/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:03:37 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6222 Most users would probably agree that Apple’s iTunes software is not a lightweight application. To the contrary. The application is huge and some will see it as an overkill if you only want to transfer music from and to an iPod. That’s where iTunes software alternatives come into play.

Froddle Pod is such an iTunes alternative. It certainly is not as feature rich as iTunes but it provides access to the main features that iPod owners need: It can copy music and videos from and to an iPod which is definitely the main feature that any iTunes alternative should support.

The software can also backup and restore all data that is stored on an iPod. Another feature is music normalization for all or selected music on the iPod. It is currently unclear if it supports album art.

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Supported are the following iPod models currently: iPod Nano (all), iPod Mini (all), iPod Classic (3rd to 6th generation). No support for the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch yet.

The software did check for and download the Microsoft Visual J# Distributable which takes up 80 Megabytes of space on the hard drive.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/17/free-itunes-alternative-froddle-pod/feed/ 28 Put Wikipedia on your iPod http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/put-wikipedia-on-your-ipod/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/put-wikipedia-on-your-ipod/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:40:18 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/put-wikipedia-on-your-ipod/ If you have one of the newer iPods with 8GB+ you might want to consider putting all the information of Wikipedia on it for fast reference. I personally think that this is an excellent idea if you regularly visit Wikipedia to research information but do not have Internet connection all the time. This could also be useful on your holiday trip if you want to quickly lookup information about a place, location or historical fact.

Encyclopodia, which I discovered at the Make Use Of website, is a easy to use Windows installer that adds Wikipedia to your iPod if your iPod has enough space free. You should also note that the Wikipedia file that is being used is approximately updated every six months which means that you will not have the latest information available but it should be sufficient for most research terms.

Just plugin your iPod into your computer and start the installation of Encyclopedia which will install a multi-boot configuration of Encyclopodia and the original Apple firmware. You will be asked if you want to start Encyclopodia by default, I suggest to say no to this.

The installation will only take a few moments because the 1.7 Gigabyte file will not be downloaded this way. After the installation has been finished plug off your iPod from the computer. You need to reboot your iPod by pressing the menu and play buttons together for ten seconds (on newer iPods, it’s the menu and action buttons).

The Apple logo should appear. Press Down and Rewind for 10 seconds which should load the Wikipedia application on your iPod.

When you see the Apple logo, press down the re-wind button for 5 seconds and this kicks in the new Wikipedia section of your iPod. This is the process that you have to do whenever you want to load Wikipedia.

Now download the 1.7 Gigabyte Wikipedia file and place it in data\encyclopodia\library\ on your iPod.

You need to reboot the iPod once again if you want to access your music instead of Wikipedia. I wish there would be a solution to access both at the same time.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/put-wikipedia-on-your-ipod/feed/ 2 Copy Music from iPod to a Computer http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/07/copy-music-from-ipod-to-a-computer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/07/copy-music-from-ipod-to-a-computer/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:30:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/07/copy-music-from-ipod-to-a-computer/ If you are looking for a quick way to copy music from your Apple iPod to a computer you might find the software iPod Folder which is available for Windows and Mac more than suitable. Users can start the transfer of the music with just three clicks. The first click selects the iPod that is connected to the computer, the second click selects the destination folder on the computer and the third finally starts the transfer of the music.

The tool can be configured to copy only mp3 files, retain the mp3 folder structure of the iPod and to overwrite existing files. The size of the music collection on your Apple iPod is shown as soon as you select the correct drive letter of the iPod. The space on the hard drive is however not listed in the application which makes it a bit of a guessing game if the music will fit on the hard drive.

The biggest advantage of iPod Folder is in my opinion that is it a portable application. This means that you could copy the software to your iPod and use it on another computer without having to download it before you can start copying the music from the iPod.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/07/copy-music-from-ipod-to-a-computer/feed/ 7 iTunes Folder Watch http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/06/itunes-folder-watch/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/06/itunes-folder-watch/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:58:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/06/itunes-folder-watch/ Apple iTunes has no way of detecting new music additions to your music folders which means that you have to add them from within iTunes manually to be able to play them in the software or sync them with your iPod music player.

A software with the name iTunes folder watch comes to the rescue. Folders that contain music can be added to iTunes folder watch. Those folders are then scanned automatically – or if preferred manually – and music that has not been added to iTunes yet is listed under the New Tracks tab.

Those tracks can be imported to iTunes again with the choice to sync the music automatically or manually. It is possible to explicitly exclude folders from being scanned. This might be useful if you don’t want to add the music of a subfolder to iTunes.

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The program can run as a background process as well which is something that I would not advise to do. This would be in my opinion only useful if you move new music into those folders regularly throughout the day.

I think it should be enough for most users to start the application manually. The decision to automatically scan the folders and sync new songs with iTunes can still be made in the options of iTunes folder watch.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/06/itunes-folder-watch/feed/ 1 Mp3 to iPod Audio Book Converter http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/19/mp3-to-ipod-audio-book-converter/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/19/mp3-to-ipod-audio-book-converter/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:58:29 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/19/mp3-to-ipod-audio-book-converter/ Did you know that the iPod is supporting two additional audiobook features ? Audiobooks in the m4b format support the adjustment of the reading speed and pointers to the last reading position of the audiobook. Those features are not available if your audiobooks have the extension mp3.

It is however possible to convert your mp3 audiobooks into the m4b format to enable those two features. Another advantage is that audiobooks are normally available as many small mp3 files which will be merged into one big m4b file in the process. You can use the Open Source program MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter to make as many conversions as you like.

Once installed you simply add all parts of the same audiobook to the list of mp3’s that will be converted. Make sure they are in the correct order, it would not be that nice if the playback would jump around in the chapters because of this. It took about eight minutes to convert the mp3 files of one audiobook CD into one m4b format.

The output size was a little bit astonishing. The original mp3 files had a size of nearly 100 megabytes while the new m4b file had a third of that file size. 34 Megabytes instead of 100 Megabytes was an incredible reduction without noticeable loss of quality.

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