Freebie Wednesday: iPodDisk
It's a shame Apple cripples its otherwise excellent iTunes and iPod by making it difficult to copy songs from one machine to another. Yes, I know Apple must play ball with the music industry, but the truth is, locking up hardware and embedding DRM into music doesn't prevent piracy. Anyone can buy a CD, rip it to MP3 and upload it to a filesharing network, rendering all that expensive and inconvenience-causing DRM useless.
I buy a lot of Macintoshes and iPods, and every time I get a new machine, I run into trouble transferring the songs. I'll plug my iPod into a new computer and a window in iTunes pops up that gives me the choice of either not being able to connect to iTunes or zapping every song on my iPod. What a lousy choice! And if you've ever tried to copy a song from iPod to iTunes, you will discover that you can't.
Thank goodness for iPodDisk, a free OS X utility that fixes what iTunes broke by letting you copy music from any iPod to any Mac. When you launch it, it opens a Finder window with all your music on it. You are free to copy it onto your Mac. Hurray! Free
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Is there a PC version?
My personal favorite is Senuti it features a iTunes-esque navigation and you just simply click the songs you'd like to copy and then amazingly click copy and the dirty deed is done. Senuti also reads the playlists that you made on your iPod, but it allows you to transfer them back to your computer as well. Also free.