I tried Floola Yesterday and It actually installs right on the ipod not the PC.. That is great it is what I wanted.
I really did not like SharePod I mean it does the job, but hardly... I could not organize my songs by rating is the worst part. I mean I have 3000 and more songs I dont want to go searching for my new favourite songs that I just rated on the ipod !! Floola on the other hand gives you an interface very much similar to that of itunes with the functionality of ordering songs by date, title, author, rating ...etc. so it is great.
On installation and running Sharepod worked much smoother and faster on my PC, especially the part that Floola asked me to setup my ipod since it was not set up correctly. I had no backup of my ipod anywhere so I just canceled that request since I did not know the consequences !! Sharepod runs faster yet the interface is very basic and sometimes disturbing.
Both softwares are freewares so there is no issue with price here.
Both show your playlists
Floola vs SharePod:
Floola Advantages:
1- itunes like interface
2- ability to sort songs by artist, title, rating, etc.
3- You can use Floola for a whole lot of things other than just playing songs.. I know you can transfer music from to ipod and pc with it.. ability to sync but I am not sure what that really means, but I will probably test this program and its potential and post another one about that.
Floola disadvantages:
1- a weired comment about iPod setup at installation and startup
2- a bit slower to start on a PC
SharePod Advantages:
1- Runs faster on a PC system
2- Installation is with no issues
Sharepod Disadvantages:
1- Very Basic interface
2- no ability (at least at my first trial) to sort lists by rating.
Summery:
I seriously will go with Floola eventhough it runs a bit slower... It is promising and I would guess it will improve in the feature years since it does more than just play music.. Will it always be free... I dont know.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I want to play the songs on my ipod wihout iTunes
So Today I found myself in a delema. I have my ipod with 3400 songs but it wont play on my Bose speakers for ipod. I guess this is due to a little fishing accedent in which the ipod ended up under water. Yet the Funny thing is the ipod works fine with the Fm car transmitter. Now I am in the middle of no where and I will be here for at least a week. No apple stores anywhere around to go and try to get my ipod fixed. oh yeah did i forget to say that i just installed a new harddrive on my laptop and dont have my itunes library :D. BUT I WANT TO LISTEN TO MY MUSIC.
I remmber having a program that you would install on your ipod and then enable the ipod as a hard disk and just run it off of the ipod and it will let you play any music on your ipod. So i googled 'listening to music from your ipod' and i got more than i asked for. I got ran into a website that listed couple of applications that can do what I wanted and more. Some of these application can actually do what I was doing in my last post, and they are cross platform, the one that I thought was worth mentioning is Floola I have not tried it yet but it looks quite promissing and I wounder which one will be better it or igadget that I have used before.
In any case the main problem with Floola with my problem is I wanted a the software that I install on my ipod not computer and it would run right off my ipod so I can easily play music on any pc around and not have to install the software on each PC i want to play the music on. So i Found the software I was looking for and it is called Sharepod.
1- you download the zip file
2- you unzip the file and you will endup with a folder called 'SharePod'
3- you move the folder to you mounted ipod
4- you double click on 'SharePod.exe' to run the software onto your.
***NOTE*** if you recieve an error it means you dont have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. so install it and you will be all good after that.
5- double click on any of the songs to play.
This is the only software I have found thatplays ipod music and instals right on the ipod itself. I can already see the limitations it has, such as not being able to search for music by rating etc.. I guess it just works as your ipod does. I will invistigate it more and post later about this along with Floola.
I remmber having a program that you would install on your ipod and then enable the ipod as a hard disk and just run it off of the ipod and it will let you play any music on your ipod. So i googled 'listening to music from your ipod' and i got more than i asked for. I got ran into a website that listed couple of applications that can do what I wanted and more. Some of these application can actually do what I was doing in my last post, and they are cross platform, the one that I thought was worth mentioning is Floola I have not tried it yet but it looks quite promissing and I wounder which one will be better it or igadget that I have used before.
In any case the main problem with Floola with my problem is I wanted a the software that I install on my ipod not computer and it would run right off my ipod so I can easily play music on any pc around and not have to install the software on each PC i want to play the music on. So i Found the software I was looking for and it is called Sharepod.
1- you download the zip file
2- you unzip the file and you will endup with a folder called 'SharePod'
3- you move the folder to you mounted ipod
4- you double click on 'SharePod.exe' to run the software onto your.
***NOTE*** if you recieve an error it means you dont have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. so install it and you will be all good after that.
5- double click on any of the songs to play.
This is the only software I have found thatplays ipod music and instals right on the ipod itself. I can already see the limitations it has, such as not being able to search for music by rating etc.. I guess it just works as your ipod does. I will invistigate it more and post later about this along with Floola.
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