TuneAid is an iPod content recovery tool. It will let you import your iPod’s content back into a Folder or iTunes in no effort.

* All iPods compatible, including iPhone V1, 3G, 3G S & iPod Touch V1 and V2
* One click Import in iTunes
* One click Copy to Folder
* Switching from PC to Mac, Mac to PC ? Doesn’t matter ! TuneAid is natively Cross-Platform
* Non-Geeky interface, TuneAid is dead simple to use without sacrificing powerful features
* Play music directly from the iPod
* High speed Incremental Backups
* Highly tuned Anti-dupe function
* Detailed Copy Stats lets you precisely know if something went wrong
* Many fields supported, such as Play Count, Skip Count, Rating, Last Skipped, Date Added etc.
* Recovers your Playlists with track order preserved
* Search and filtering a click away
* Auto detection feature, just plugin it in!
* Highly customizable preferences lets your transfer the fields your really need
* Special floating copy status window lets you minimize TuneAid and keep an eye on the copy process
* Recover songs from iPods with a corrupted database
* Support for all character sets (including Japanese)
* For iPhone and iPod Touch, no jailbreak needed
* Supports iTunes 8.21
* iPhone and iPod Touch supported OS versions : 1.1.1 to 3.0

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SharePod is easy to use and works! Heres some of the main features:

* Add & remove music and videos from your iPod
* Add, remove and edit playlists
* Add & remove album art
* View and backup photos
* Copy music, videos and playlists from your iPod to PC
* Import music/videos into your iTunes library, including playlists and ratings
* Tag editing
* Drag n’ drop to and from Explorer
* Simple, clean interface
* Quick to load and use with no unnessary complicated features
* Support for iPhone and iTouch

And whats more, SharePod is completely free! SharePod was designed from the start to be lightweight, quick and responsive, it has all (well hopefully most…!) of the features you need and none of the features you dont.

After downloading SharePod, if you have an older iPod (Shuffle, Mini, Nano, Classic), you can run SharePod right from your iPod drive. (The iPod appears in ‘My Computer’ when docked.)

If you see an error message like ‘Failed to initialize: 0xC0000135′, you need to download the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.

Avoid running SharePod and iTunes at the same time. Neither application will know about changes made by the other, and your iPod could get out of sync with both.

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.

Among the many features of Rhythmbox, you will find:

* Easy to use music browser
* Searching and sorting
* Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
* Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
* Playlists
* Display audio visualizations
* Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
* Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
* Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
* Automatically download audio podcasts
* Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo

iPodRobot iPod to Computer Transfer is a program that makes it easy to take batches of songs, videos, photos, and playlists from your iPod, and copy them to your computer folder, or import them to your iTunes library.

It is useful when you:

* Reinstall your system and your iTunes library, or just get your music, videos, and photos off your iPod, and save them to your computer
* Back up all of your music, playlists, videos, and photos from iPod to a new computer.
* Share your iPod contents with a friend.
* Restore your songs, movies, and photographs from your iPod if you’tve lost your iTunes music library during a system crash.

iPodRobot iPod to Computer Transfer is the quickest and easiest way to get music off your iPod and transfer songs, videos, photos and playlists from your iPod to computer.

Key features

* Protect your iPod against unwanted iTunes synchronizations.
* Easily get all the music, videos, and photos off your iPod and transfer them to your computer folder or iTunes.
* Easily transfer your playlist with its folder structure back to iTunes, and rebuild your iTunes library.
* All song ratings, comments, play counts, the songs’ order, and even volume adjustments will be preserved.
* Keep your output folder organized.
* Auto-reject duplicate files when importing music into your iTunes library.
* Only read data from your iPod. It’s totally safe, and risk-free to try.
* Extremely easy to use, skinable user interface.
* Supports all iPod models, even the newest iPod Touch and the iPhone.

How to use it?

1. Run iPodRobot iPod to Computer Transfer.
2. Connect your iPod / iPhone device to your computer.
3. Check the music, videos, photos and playlists that you want to copy.
4. Click “Copy To iTunes” or “Copy To Folder” button.

EphPod is a full-featured, easy-to-use Windows application that connects with Apple’s iPod. With a FireWire card and EphPod on a PC, it takes under 30 minutes to transfer 1,000 songs to an iPod.

In addition, EphPod supports standard WinAmp (.M3U) playlists, includes powerful playlist creation features, and will synchronize an entire music collection with one click. It imports Microsoft Outlook contacts, in addition to allowing users to create and edit their own contacts. EphPod can also download the latest news, weather, e-books, and movie listings to an iPod.