Ugh, do I HAVE to use itunes for ipod shuffle?

[Cawchy87]

So my gf bought me a shuffle for when I go to the gym and I tried loading songs onto it like any normal flash mp3 player. She said I have to use itunes, but I use windows file structure to organize all my music and don't really want itunes screwing with that. Are there any third party programs that allow me to just drag and drop files onto the ipod?

Thanks ATOT

 

[frostedflakes]

There are number of alternatives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...rison_of_ipod_managers

 

[effowe]

Anapod and Ephpod if I remember correctly, I also believe Winamp has a plugin for this.

 

[oznerol]

Mediamonkey is excellent. And free.

 

[Cawchy87]

Sweet! There goes homework for the afternoon. I'm going to find the best one. Thanks!!!

 

[Flammable]

Originally posted by: ducci
Mediamonkey is excellent. And free.

itunes is free

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Flammable

Originally posted by: ducci
Mediamonkey is excellent. And free.

itunes is free

Yeah, but it's also a POS, unlike MediaMonkey.

KT

 

[DnetMHZ]

You can very easily tell iTunes not to reorganize your music with a simple check box.

 

[speg]

This drives me nuts. Why do you guys insist on maintain folder structure yourselves? iTunes uses something like Artist -> Album -> Songs

I don't see how you could do it much differently - or why you would want to?

 

[aceO07]

In linux, RhythmBox and Amarok should support Ipods too.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: Flammable

Originally posted by: ducci
Mediamonkey is excellent. And free.

itunes is free

No offense to the apple lovers but I think iTunes sucks ass...I am glad I found this thread so I don't have to waste time and energy using iTunes!

Thanks OP

 

[coldmeat]

Why do people hate iTunes so much? What are your reasons?

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
You can very easily tell iTunes not to reorganize your music with a simple check box.

i found that setting after it reorganized 1200 mp3s.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: leeland

Originally posted by: Flammable

Originally posted by: ducci
Mediamonkey is excellent. And free.

itunes is free

No offense to the apple lovers but I think iTunes sucks ass...I am glad I found this thread so I don't have to waste time and energy using iTunes!

Thanks OP

Uh you don't need to use iTunes as your media player. You use it to copy stuff. BAM. That's it. iTunes may suck compared to Foobar or even WMP but seriously, just use it to copy and that's IT.

 

[QueBert]

I BOUGHT a program that does it, as none of the free ones I found seem to support the Touch. I still find myself using iTunes, the only problem I have is when I change a ID3 tag and re-sync it will copy the song a 2nd time with the new tag. I almost never change tags so it's not even an issue to me. I also like how iTunes will tell me when there are updates to programs. I do hate how it syncs photos though

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: coldmeat
Why do people hate iTunes so much? What are your reasons?

itunes works really well on mac, but is slow and crap on pc

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: coldmeat
Why do people hate iTunes so much? What are your reasons?

itunes works really well on mac, but is slow and crap on pc

A mac is a pc.

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: coldmeat
Why do people hate iTunes so much? What are your reasons?

itunes works really well on mac, but is slow and crap on pc

A mac is a pc.

unfortunately look into video problems on itunes for pc. i cant use itunes for video playback of any type because its choppy as hell and simply doesnt work

people have been complaining about this problem since 2005 and theres no fix

thats an example

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: coldmeat
Why do people hate iTunes so much? What are your reasons?

itunes works really well on mac, but is slow and crap on pc

A mac is a pc.

unfortunately look into video problems on itunes for pc. i cant use itunes for video playback of any type because its choppy as hell and simply doesnt work

people have been complaining about this problem since 2005 and theres no fix

thats an example

What the fuck? A mac is a pc.

 

[frostedflakes]

I also don't like how iTunes makes you install Quicktime.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
I also don't like how iTunes makes you install Quicktime.

Yep, that is completely stupid.

KT

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
I also don't like how iTunes makes you install Quicktime.

And has like 3 programs running in the background at all times and autoupdates itself even though you've unchecked it.

I knew that I should have sold my $25 gift card and not used it. Stupid videos have DRM too so you can't watch with anything else.

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: coldmeat
Why do people hate iTunes so much? What are your reasons?

itunes works really well on mac, but is slow and crap on pc

A mac is a pc.

unfortunately look into video problems on itunes for pc. i cant use itunes for video playback of any type because its choppy as hell and simply doesnt work

people have been complaining about this problem since 2005 and theres no fix

thats an example

What the fuck? A mac is a pc.

different OS...

 

[ric1287]

I hate itunes with a firey passion. It crashes at least once every time i use it, i need to find an alternative way to sync with my iphone.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

different OS...

Macintosh branded pc's run windows, osx, linux, and probably more.

A mac is a pc.