iPod Software

So I assume the iPods come with software that helps you manage your playlists, and songs? To anybody that's used it...how manageable is it? Can you create playlists/categories/genre's directly on your PC, and transfer them over to you iPod? Is it really easy to use?

Can anybody provide screenshots?

Thanks!

have you heard of iTunes? iTunes is from Apple and is what you use with your iPod. in fact, you can go download iTunes for free at iTunes.com.

it's a shitty program and can barely do anything that winamp or windows media player can do, although it DOES rip audio to mp3 or aac format. you can edit tag information, which autocreates playlists on the iPod based on genre, artist, album, and composer.

if I were you I'd use mp3-tag studio (free) to manage your tags, and you can use iTunes to upload if you want. you can also use Ephod (free) or anapod ($25).

Thanks for the response shif. Yeah, I've heard of iTunes...but have had no reason to d/l it because WinAmp does everything I want it to. Also, I have a plugin that import the current playing song to my website, which I really like.

I figured the iPod comes with software that handles categorization, and ID3 tags...but it sounds like the categorization automagically happens based on the stored tag details?

Anyway...I'll certainly check out mp3-tag studio. Good tip, thanks!

iPod comes with iTunes and it does everything the average user needs to import music and have it automatically sync with the iPod. What is it with Windows users and the need to make everything so complicated?????

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MusicMan Yes, the organization by artist/genre/etc is done on the fly by the iPod (or maybe via the iTunes DB?).

And I give iTunes a "decent". Right now I use iTunes to rip stuff to Apple Lossless (since I don't have a choice) and ephpod for transferring music to the iPod.

Another question - when using your Ipod in "disk mode" can it actually play the mp3s, stored on it? Or it can play music, when it's in its regular mode?

I use ml_iPod[=http//www.harrison-fisher.co.uk/mlipod/index.php?page=home]ml_iPod an iPod plugin for Winamp.