blob: de00034a6ad9248dee500119de8aaffc47282a2c (
plain)
1
|
Next up in our series on ways to get songs off your iPod is Podworks, another Mac-only program, Podworks (I'll be focusing on Windows and Linux options later in the week). Podworks is a PowerPC app, which means it will be running under Rosetta on Intel Macs.
Podworks has a number of ways to recover your music from an iPod, the easiest of which is to simply click "Copy All," which copies everything on your iPod to whatever location you select. Alternately you can select a range of songs and only copy those songs.
Podworks can also send the songs straight into iTunes by using the "Send All to iTunes" or "Send Selected to iTunes" options.
Podworks lacks the drag and drop features of Senuti, but makes up for it by being smarter about duplicate songs. Podworks still doesn't warn or ask about duplicates, instead it just silently skips them (or overwrites them depending on your settings.
Like others, Podworks can play songs on your iPod though when I say play I mean literally play, not skip or fast-forward and changing views will stop playback.
Podworks is shareware and costs $8. There is 30 day trail version which is limited to 250 song transfers.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Doesn't duplicate tracks when transfering songs
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Easy to use
**Bad**
* Lack of Universal binary makes it a bit slower than others
* No way to view your iTunes Library along side your iPod
* No drag-and-drop transfers.
[1]: http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/ "Podworks"
|
