iTunes is klunky and slow. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to download your music to your iPod without being aggravated with iTunes? You might be shocked to find there are several options. Here are the top selections for iTunes alternatives.
1. CopyTrans Suite – Manage playlists, rate songs, transfer album artwork and copy songs to iPod. All this in a download that’s under 1MB. This is my preferred software for my new Nano.
2. Banshee – The top choice for Linux users. Mange your music, make CD’s and sync with your music player. Sorry Windows and Mac owners, there is no version for you.
3. Songbird – Built around the Mozilla web browser. Has iPod support with a third-party extension. Many more extensions are available as well as themes, so it can do almost anything you want it to. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
These are the 3 that I am familiar with. There are other options that are a bit outdated. Floola seems popular, but you have to run iTunes once and copy a file to your iPod. That seems to defeat the purpose. I remember GKTPOD worked with my old iPod, but the open-source project seems inactive leaving me to believe that it won’t work with many newer devices. Yamipod looks promising, but I haven’t tried it yet. Enjoy any of these. Anything prevent iTunes and QuickTime from bogging down your system right?
Last modified May 25, 2011
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does it work with the newer ipod touchs?and windows?
Yup! Thanks a lot, CopyTrans Manager (if you want the free thing) worked just great with my iPhone 3G latest OS version!
Not sure you can completey replace iTunes but hey, for managing iPhone at work, it’s more then enough. Who knows, I might êven prove myself wrong.
Andres
Another program that I use to sync my iPod is MediaMonkey.
Works great and I use it as my music player on my laptop as well.
OK, if iTunes is slow and klunky what’s fast?!
get real, itunes is so far the best option out there, unless you’re a nerd.
Ashley, you need the plugin to use it with the iPod.
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/12
I tried songbird, and it downloaded fine and everything but once everything was done, i had no clue how to transfer my songs from Songbird music library to my ipod nano. I have been trieng to find a way for hours now, so if someone could help me i’d greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Ashley.
CopyTrans rocks!!!
Thanks dude!!