When my Dad was down this time, he brought along his iPod Nano. I already have an iPod 30Gb and so didn’t want to use his iPod Nano with iTunes. I searched around for some software that would let me manage the iPod.
I stumbled upon EphPod, which is an iPod managing application for Windows.
Their summary just about says everything!
EphPod is a full-featured, easy-to-use Windows application that connects with Apple’s iPod. With a FireWire card and EphPod on a PC, it takes under 30 minutes to transfer 1,000 songs to an iPod. In addition, EphPod supports standard WinAmp (.M3U) playlists, includes powerful playlist creation features, and will synchronize an entire music collection with one click. It imports Microsoft Outlook contacts, in addition to allowing users to create and edit their own contacts. EphPod can also download the latest news, weather, e-books, and movie listings to an iPod.
What I really liked about EphPod was the speed at which I was able to load the program and perform the tasks in it. I wanted to transfer some music off my Dads iPod and the software allowed me to easily transfer them into their respective folders and named in the desire I chose it. It saved me a lot of time into going through the copied files and renaming them myself.
The program is compatible with Windows 98, Me, NT, 2K and XP. You need to download seperate versions for 98/Me and NT/2K/XP.
The only thing is that the software doesn’t autodetect your iPod. You need to manually select the iPod drive. I was able to select my actual harddrive even when the iPod was not connected. Though not needed, an autodetect feature would be good.
It also needs the iPod to be formatted in Windows as it doesn’t recognize the structure otherwise.
I have the beta version running and it didn’t understand that my directory structure already exists and asked me to build again.
These may be tiny bugs. It is a good thing that they don’t cause any major problem or effect operation of the software.
This one comes highly recommended if you don’t want to use the bulky iTunes.
- Download EphPod 2.77 for Windows NT/XP
- Other downloads
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December 24th, 2006 at 5:05 am
You could have used Libra Tunes
December 24th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Will give that a shot as well. I found yet another program.
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