Copy Files (And Everything Else) Off of An iPod
March 5, 2008
I got all of this from the end of MacBreak Weekly episode 79, at the end of the program when they give out their web picks, a Twit.tv program.
Apparently there are tons of programs out there that will take the files off of your ipod if your hard drive crashes, and you haven’t backed up your itunes collection, but according to the Mac Break guys this is the best one.
“This is a great little program. You know there are a lot of programs for copying files and music off of your iPod, and of course Apple continually changes the iPod and iTunes to make that hard…(but) Podworks is fantastic, it works with the iPhone even, will bring over play lists, will bring in Meta data, in fact you can even just get the Meta Data, so if you have the files but you just want the ratings you can copy them over…” -Leo Laporte
He goes on to say it will copy over such things as the last played date, that it’s an “amazing program, the Ultimate iPod copy tool.” Merlin Mann questioned why the product was only 8 bucks, and went on to say that he had personally saved two friends whose hard drives had crashed when they couldn’t get their files from their iPod. Another guest said that the other utilities like it seemed like they were designed to use only once but that this program “was designed like a slick, really professional looking piece of software, not like something just to be used once…” He went on to say that this program was useful to him when his hard drive crashed not because he hadn’t backed up but because you can’t back up play lists in iTunes, but that this program grabbed them from the iPod and copied them back in.
http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/
You can try before you buy, but it is only $8. “The easiest 8 bucks you’ll ever spend,” according to one guest.
