ipod without itunes? (1 Viewer)

[theoootini]

getting a new 120 gigawatt ipod in the next couple days. am not too enamoured of using itunes. anyone have any experience of using the foobar ipod mananger? any use? anything else out there?

also, id it possible to keep an ipod synched between two computers, i.e., work and home. is this possible? some extra bit of firmware perhaps?

 

[Lili Marlene]

I used a few alternatives to itunes but it led to some messups with the database and songs not appearing or not disappearing on the ipod and the like

Winamp is really good and should do most, if not all, of the things you want.

yeah, this messed things up a bit for me


In regards to synching just don't. You don't want to use it, it's only there for people who can't find google or the anykey

 

[the strange guy]

Winamp is really good and should do most, if not all, of the things you want.

 

[theoootini]

In regards to synching just don't. You don't want to use it, it's only there for people who can't find google or the anykey

not sure i follow you here. is it totally undoable to set up two computers for 1 ipod?

Winamp is really good and should do most, if not all, of the things you want.

really don't like wimamp. was hoping someone may have had experience with foobar...

 

[Lili Marlene]

not sure i follow you here. is it totally undoable to set up two computers for 1 ipod?

not at all, just turn off auto-synching for both of them. Possibly I misunderstood you here

 

[Anthony]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1202

 

[Space]

Isn't it rockbox people use? I'll check and get back to ya. It's linux based mediaplayer

 

[tommytrousers]

getting a new 120 gigawatt ipod in the next couple days. am not too enamoured of using itunes. anyone have any experience of using the foobar ipod mananger? any use? anything else out there?

also, id it possible to keep an ipod synched between two computers, i.e., work and home. is this possible? some extra bit of firmware perhaps?

The missus and I got one cheap and a tech nerd of ours set it up to use floola-it's impossible for us to understand and anytime he's in the house he spends 2-3 hours flutin' around with it trying to get it to work properly, copies songs twice or only half a song etc. I have given up on it, never buying anything apple again. I don't have the time to be learning how all that shite works.

 

[ernesto]

The missus and I got one cheap and a tech nerd of ours set it up to use floola-it's impossible for us to understand and anytime he's in the house he spends 2-3 hours flutin' around with it trying to get it to work properly, copies songs twice or only half a song etc. I have given up on it, never buying anything apple again. I don't have the time to be learning how all that shite works.

yeah it must be apples's fault that the software it wasn't designed for it keeps fucking up

 

[tommytrousers]

yeah it must be apples's fault that the software it wasn't designed for it keeps fucking up

Exactly, I've learned my lesson, don't buy a proprietiory gadget if you don't want to spend months IT upskilling.

 

[Space]

What's wrong with itunes?

 

[ernesto]

What's wrong with itunes?

nada, works great for me!

 

[Space]

Likewise. Anyways here's the wkipedia entry for rockbox. I've heard nothing but good stuff about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox

 

[Anthony]

The missus and I got one cheap and a tech nerd of ours set it up to use floola-it's impossible for us to understand and anytime he's in the house he spends 2-3 hours flutin' around with it trying to get it to work properly, copies songs twice or only half a song etc. I have given up on it, never buying anything apple again. I don't have the time to be learning how all that shite works.

i don't understand this tommy. itunes is probably the simplist programme i use.

 

[theoootini]

erm, i'll probably just end up using itunes for uploading an ting. i prefer foobar for playing stuff on me 'pooter tho...

 

[Froog]

just get a drag-and-drop player with no software like sansa. no messing. for playing direct from your computer, just use windows media player.

 

[tommytrousers]

i don't understand this tommy. itunes is probably the simplist programme i use.

never even knew itunes could be used unless you were purchasing everything to upload from the itunes store I'm a complete rookie and presumed it wouldn't allow you to upload files from ,erm, other locations

 

[nEiLo]

Likewise. Anyways here's the wkipedia entry for rockbox. I've heard nothing but good stuff about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox

rockbox doesn't work on the new ipods, which is a pity. have it on my iriver and it is brilliant.

 

[Space]

In that case, get itunes back on it. Get itunes on your puter and get music onto your ipod from your computer. Alternatively get someone else to do this for ya.

edit: that was in reply to Tommy not Neilo

 

[Jerry Twig]

upskilling.

What?!