Itunes Alternative?

[The Reepr]

I need to throw some recently acquired songs onto my iPod, but I need an app that won't sync like iTunes. I have just built my new PC finally and nothing is on it.







I also need a good app to download all my songs back onto my PC.


Two seperate apps are fine, just lemme know what you use.

[GooBacks]

to add songs manually to ur ipod this is what you do (done in iTunes)

1. Connect your iPod to your computer and open iTunes
2. Select your iPod in the iTunes Source list
3. Click the iPod Options button in the lower-right corner of the iTunes window
4. In the iPod preferences window, select the Manually manage songs and playlists option and then click OK

then basically you just drag and drop the songs that are in ur itunes...

Get the tunes off with a PC
On the PC side we picked like the full-featured (and free) ephPod. ephPod can download news, get Outlook contacts, edit your calendar, add songs and few dozen other useful things—but for us, the best feature is a simple file export to get your songs off your iPod. The PC does not need to be the authorized machine for your iPod.

Download and install ephPod.

Open the application, Start > Programs > ephPod.

Make sure your iPod is plugged in and select the drive in the pull down list that your iPod appears as.

Once the application has seen your iPod, double click "songs"—this will bring up a list of all the songs on your iPod.

When you see the song(s) you wish to copy off your iPod, select and "right click" and choose "Copy Songs to Directory" on the song or press Ctril+Alt+C. For our example we're taking our Engadget Podcast off of our iPod and putting it on another computer.

ephPod will ask where to save the file, we choose our desktop.

ephPod will then create a new folder along with the file you selected.

Click OK and that's it!

[The Reepr]

so just backup first just in case I guess?

[GooBacks]

i never backed up my friend's ipods and it works fine
but hey if ya wanna back it up by all means do so, i wouldn't want you to lose all ur music

[Carbon]

I have all of my music backed up on my friends ipods. They needed music and i have like 25 gigs of it so i just put it on. So if mine crashes i borrow theirs.

[GooBacks]

lol, very smart C4RBON
but damn that's a lot of music
i don't even own an ipod haha
i use the 2gigs i have on my sidekick for music

[The Reepr]

It says it may not work with new ipods, and I have an 80GB 5.5G black video...

[Rand245]

sounds cool i gotta try it

[sweetness_killz]

i think im also going to try this. iTunes wants you to buy stuff. thats why they have it and thats their primary goal. NOT GOONNA HAPPEN!