My OperaThe Secret Storage Device Known as iPod
Friday, March 2, 2007 8:53:57 PM
Author's Note: This article is primarily aimed for Windows users however this guise can also apply to Linux users. Mac users, this most likely won't apply to you unless you have access to a Windows/Linux computer on a regular basis or have one as a back up or you use Bootcamp.
Having an iPod is simply great. You can store your music on it, videos and even photos. Simplicity at its finest. Or is it?
At the beginning users could easily create plugins for Apple's iTunes and one of these would allow you to not only sync your iPod with the computer it's on, but also rip any music, videos or phoots off of it for safe keeping. Apple, however, didn't like this and quickly released a new version of iTunes that disabled any plugin like this. Now, many rippers were outraged. They couldn't rip their music anymore! In fact, rippers weren't actually a problem, and sadly Apple failed to realize this.
As well all know, hardrives don't last, they'll eventually break. Therefore, your computer that you're on with all of your music, videos and photos can just as easily blow up one day as boot up. This would mean that you'd loose all of those files that you spent literally hours categorizing into libraries, saving, making, ripping off your CDs, buying from iTunes Music Store, etc. Now with the aforementioned plugin above you wouldn't entirely fret about this, but now that it's gone, what do you do?
Well, you could try to find an old copy of iTunes that works on your Windows/Linux system (via Wine for Linux) and then try to find the plugin. But this process would in and of itself probably take several hours as this is a rather old plugin. So what is the other option?
The answer is simple, a program called "EphPod."
This program allows you to either add or remove music, videos, photos, whatever from your iPod right into a folder on your computer of your choosing. Best of all is that it's 100% free!
You can find the program here.
The owners claim that EphPod can save 1000 songs from your iPod in about 30 minutes give or take a few minutes which isn't all that bad since you can literally have your main files back in under two hours and back on your feet pretty soon thereafter. I myself have used this program several times since my computer has needed to have Wiudows reinstalled about four or five times in the past year due to Windows' poor quality when it comes to system management.
(Linux users can also use Wine to run this program.)
Now for the Linux users. As we all know iTunes on Linux is somewhat hard/expensive to do. But since Wine is an openGL and can easily use EphPod you're in luck. EphPod lets you write files to your iPod as an alternative to iTunes, so now if you have been having iPod envy without owning a compatible operating system, you can now do this easily though I'd get familiar with the program first and try it out on a friends iPod or something.
So there you have it, a way to easily transfer files from one computer to another or to use the iPod as a means of being a portable hardrive. Have fun!
Having an iPod is simply great. You can store your music on it, videos and even photos. Simplicity at its finest. Or is it?
At the beginning users could easily create plugins for Apple's iTunes and one of these would allow you to not only sync your iPod with the computer it's on, but also rip any music, videos or phoots off of it for safe keeping. Apple, however, didn't like this and quickly released a new version of iTunes that disabled any plugin like this. Now, many rippers were outraged. They couldn't rip their music anymore! In fact, rippers weren't actually a problem, and sadly Apple failed to realize this.As well all know, hardrives don't last, they'll eventually break. Therefore, your computer that you're on with all of your music, videos and photos can just as easily blow up one day as boot up. This would mean that you'd loose all of those files that you spent literally hours categorizing into libraries, saving, making, ripping off your CDs, buying from iTunes Music Store, etc. Now with the aforementioned plugin above you wouldn't entirely fret about this, but now that it's gone, what do you do?
Well, you could try to find an old copy of iTunes that works on your Windows/Linux system (via Wine for Linux) and then try to find the plugin. But this process would in and of itself probably take several hours as this is a rather old plugin. So what is the other option?
The answer is simple, a program called "EphPod."
This program allows you to either add or remove music, videos, photos, whatever from your iPod right into a folder on your computer of your choosing. Best of all is that it's 100% free!
You can find the program here.
The owners claim that EphPod can save 1000 songs from your iPod in about 30 minutes give or take a few minutes which isn't all that bad since you can literally have your main files back in under two hours and back on your feet pretty soon thereafter. I myself have used this program several times since my computer has needed to have Wiudows reinstalled about four or five times in the past year due to Windows' poor quality when it comes to system management.
(Linux users can also use Wine to run this program.)
Now for the Linux users. As we all know iTunes on Linux is somewhat hard/expensive to do. But since Wine is an openGL and can easily use EphPod you're in luck. EphPod lets you write files to your iPod as an alternative to iTunes, so now if you have been having iPod envy without owning a compatible operating system, you can now do this easily though I'd get familiar with the program first and try it out on a friends iPod or something.
So there you have it, a way to easily transfer files from one computer to another or to use the iPod as a means of being a portable hardrive. Have fun!
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