If you dislike the bloated iTunes application you've probably wondered what a good alternative is...
EphPod is a full-featured, easy-to-use Windows (and Linux) 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. You can also easily add songs to EphPod playlists from within it by having it pop open a file browser dialog so you're not forced to drag-n-drop files into it.
EphPod is compatible with all iPods, either Mac* or Windows formatted, through firewire and USB connectors.
I was looking for an iTunes alternative and stumbled across Songbird Media Player, which is a pretty nice app, but it currently requires weird hacks and plugins to make it import playlists and work with iPods. EphPod is less bloated and works better out of the box. EphPod doesn't have any ads and its playlist features are greater than iTunes. Some people like YamiPod and it would be nice if it actually worked, but it's super slow and didn't work for me at all when I tried to import a playlist it just stalled forever and when I tried to drag files to the playlist it somehow copied the wrong ones and then it pops up windows asking for donations. You could also use Winamp but it requires the 3rd party plugin ml_ipod but I prefer not to have Winamp installed because it's bloated and conflicts with my favorite audio player for Windows.
That all being said I still wouldn't rush to uninstall iTunes because the alternatives aren't perfect either and you may find you still need it once in a while.
http://www.ephpod.com/
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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Try Floola ,
Its a bit slow initially, but turn off the album art thumbs option and it becomes quite fast..
Its one of the "Complete" ipod managers available...
Hi,
Try Floola ,
Its one of the complete ipod managers available... ( http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/ )
This is my default application now, ( Put it my iPod, now just run the executable from the ipod from whichever pc, and add songs... the closest u can get those flash based players where u can actually drag 'n' drop the songs.. :) )
Hi
We love iPods/iPhone
thank you.
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The 2nd generation iPod Touch is an almost perfect device.
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