Yesterday, I spent almost all day trying to locate open source software which would bypass iTunes for my touch iPod.
When a young lady from England requested some of the Spanish-learning MP3s which I had to be put on her iPod, I couldn’t do it because Apple’s iTunes said that her iPod was synced to iTunes on another computer and if i wanted to change anything, I had to delete everything and start again.
POed at Apple’s need to control everything through iTunes, I went surfing for an open source program which would directly access the mp3s on my iPod, bypassing Apple’s iTunes solution.
After many false starts and freeware downloads which were crippled software unless I purchased an upgraded version, I came across the following open source software which did exactly what I wanted — added songs directly to the iPod, exported selected songs and backed up all the songs onto the computer. If it sounds good to you, you can obtain SharePod, too. It solved my problems and I am extremely happy with it.
While searching for the solution, I inadvertently downloaded a program which spontaneously booted my system and prevented me from going into ’safe’ mode to fix the problem. Solution?
I spent most of today restoring my Fujitsu laptop back to it’s October 16th backup. I lost a few things, but I kept all my email because I put my email on a non-system partition.
