iPodRip v2.4, "The definitive iPod companion application,"...

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[mainstreetmark]

I don't have an iPod, but it sure seemed like iTunes could do things like "copy tracks and play them". What is this offering that isn't in iTunes?

 

[P-Worm]

I think it means that you can 'Rip' the songs off of your iPod so to speak. iTunes won't let you do that.

P-Worm

 

[mainstreetmark]

Originally posted by P-Worm
I think it means that you can 'Rip' the songs off of your iPod so to speak. iTunes won't let you do that.

P-Worm

When a song is on an iPod, you can't get it into your iTunes?

 

[ckwm]

I think the point is that you can rip it onto your hard drive. In other words you copy all the songs off your friends iPod and then import them into iTunes. This gets around the copy protection and allows you to pirate away....

Or am I just cynical

 

[nickfit]

Itunes is designed to be a one way street, from your computer to your ipod, so people aren't running around plugging in their ipods into other people's machine and dumping music. It's not as bad as kazaa, but I think that Apple made a deal with record labels to make it so the ipod would not be another music swapping device. But of course, someone is going to figure out a hack.

 

[crap freakboy]

Originally posted by ckwm
Or am I just cynical

I'd say more of a realist

 

[Spock]

I used a program like this not to long ago when my Hard Disk crashed to get my iTunes playlist's and Library back on my HD even AAC files.

 

[mj_1903]

I designed it so people could keep their home library and work library in sync via their iPod. Many people seem to appreciate that.

Also, adding songs to your new computer or when a hard drive crashses...but there are a few more things in there that you can find.

 

[lawprof]

Is there a Windows version of a similar program?

 

[Panther Blue]

Originally posted by P-Worm
I think it means that you can 'Rip' the songs off of your iPod so to speak. iTunes won't let you do that.

P-Worm

Much easier fix to that is my friend TinkerTool.

 

[mj_1903]

Sure, you can let TinkerTool make your songs visible, but does it let you recover your playlists/ratings/play count? No it does not.

It's a convenience, not a necessity, but there are lots of features in there.

 

[m.r.m.]

if we were simply interested in smuggling songs, we could manually load the songs off another computer into a file on the ipod, manually load it to our computers and then sync, so the ipod would then play them. i´m sure not too many people are going to do that, just like most of us aren´t running around using the ipod to pirate music, right?

 

[yamabushi]

Why bother to pirate AAC with an iPod anyways? You could have grabbed a pirated mp3 in the first place if you really wanted to avoid the $.99. I think this program offers very useful additional functionality.