What is a good, simple, small app for loading music & video files onto IPOD (without iTunes)?
Question by Kosh: What is a good, simple, small app for loading music & video files onto IPOD (without iTunes)?
Sadly, the iPod doesn’t allow drag & drop to load music files on it. You need software. I know there are a few alternatives to the cumbersome, limiting iTunes, so I wanted to try a couple.
I have done a few searches for these applications – yet there were myriad different ones and I had a hard time finding a good recommendation. Seems everyone had many to suggest.
Worse, it seems most of these programs were actually larger programs and the iPod functionality only one part of it.
Right now, I don’t need media management and library manipulation. I just want to load some files on the iPod on demand. I would like the simplest, smallest, most hassle-free utility to allow this.
Any suggestions based on these criteria?
Hi, yes, I know there are non-hack apps available; just a matter of selecting the right one.
“None”, are you referring to dragging and dropping IN iTunes? My goal is to avoid iTunes. My only need is just to drag my existing files to the ipod for playing (I don’t know why most other mp3 players allow this, natively, but the ipod requires special software)
Thanks for the the suggestions.
However I’m far less concerned with conversion as just loading the files onto the ipod so I may play them. I already have conversion utilities; I just need to put files on the pod.
Best answer:
Answer by NONE
You’re mistaken. Connect your iPod and check Manually Manage Music and Videos on the Summary Pane, then drag and drop. Learn more in your user guide from Apple.com/support.
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