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Download YouTube Videos to your iTunes library & iPod with TubeSock

ollie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:11:41 +0000

TubeSock grabs YouTube videos from the web and copies them to your video iPod, iPhone, appleTV, Mac, or even PlayStation Portable. TubeSock knows how to convert the video using the codecs and bitrates best for each device. It can even add the video to iTunes for you. TubeSock can also grab just the audio portion of a video and add it to iTunes, too. Find your favorite tracks, outtakes, and live recordings on YouTube, then click “Save” to copy them to your iPod. The conversion is quick and there’s no loss of audio fidelity.

Rip DVD movies to your ipod or iTunes library with freeware utility Handbreak

ollie — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:59:05 +0000

HandBrake is a GPL’d multi-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. It is designed to allow a user to Rip their DVD movies or TV shows to mp4 files playable by itunes and/or their ipod. There are many different presets to choose from for encoding, including ipod & itunes optimized ones as well ones for the apple TV and iPhone.

Copy files off your ipod onto your Mac or iTunes with freeware utility iPodDisk

ollie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:22:47 +0000

iPodDisk is an elegant little free utility that opens your iPod up in Finder just like it was a normal drive.

Unlike opening an iPod in Windows, iPodDisk turns all of the odd file structures into an easy-to-navigate layout that lets you sort down through your artists, albums, playlists, etc. — drag whatever you want off and put it in your iTunes.

It’ll even open a Windows-formatted iPod just fine — which makes this a rather convenient way to get from a Windows iPod to a Mac formatted one (drag all of the files out with iPodDisk, reinitialize the iPod with the Mac iPod Updater, load the files into iTunes and let it stick them back on your iPod.

iPodDisk is a Power PC program, but it works fine on Intel Macs (at least it does on mine), and it supports all current iPods

Basic iPod Management-Screencast

ollie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:01:37 +0000

This is a screencast video on how to manage your ipod with itunes.

iSquint

ollie — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:15:38 +0000

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It’s many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it’s infinitely free-er. It’s also really easy. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose “TV” or “iPod” size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime. Intel Macs are up to twice as fast, and can convert videos upwards of 5x realtime! Depending on a few factors, a 20 minute video will take up anywhere from 50-150MB of disk space.

Features:

* Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD.
* QuickTime Pro and DivX codec not required.
* DivX and XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.
* Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
* Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.
* Quality slider. Leave it as is to trust me, mess with it if you know better, or completely ignore it and play with the…
* Advanced settings drawer. Change every aspect of the conversion process.
* Multithreaded for multi-processor computers.
* Just a few of the supported formats: .mov .mp4 .avi .dv .mpg .vob .3gp .asf .wmv .flv .m4v

Senuti

ollie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:49:22 +0000

Senuti is a simple application for transfering songs from your iPod back to your computer.

~Description taken from developers site~
There are many good reasons that someone would have to transfer music from her iPod back to her computer. There are many good ways to do it, too. Senuti is the only alternative that will give you the power and convenience that you need, wrapped in an interface that is extremely easy to use, at a cost that you can’t complain about.

* Lightning fast There’s a little file on your iPod called the iTunesDB file. What does that mean to you? Nothing. What does that mean to me? Everything. Every bit of information on every song on your iPod is stored in this little file. Every bit of information on your playlists is stored in this file, too. It’s how iTunes knows what’s on your iPod. It’s how your iPod knows what’s there, too. There isn’t a much faster way to figure out what’s on your iPod.
* Finding Songs Senuti includes all of the built in options that one would expect to find songs. You can search and sort in any combination of ways that you want. That’s not quite enough sometimes, though. Sometimes you might want to know if you’re copying the right song. Know how it goes, but don’t know if that title is quite right? Play it! That’s right, Senuti will play songs directly off of your iPod. It can even double as a jukebox player for your Shuffle or any other iPod.
* Playlists Senuti not only reads the playlists that you made on your iPod, but it allows you to transfer them back to your computer as well. A simple drag and drop action within the application will not only copy songs to your computer and and add them to iTunes, but it will make a new playlist with the same name and add all of the songs to that list.
* Seamless Integration Adding songs to your computer, you’re probably going to add them to iTunes right after that, right? What if you didn’t have to, wouldn’t that be great? Well you don’t have to. Senuti will do all of the work for you. What work you want it to do is up to you. You can have songs added to iTunes if you want. You can have all of your music organized into folders by artist and album, too. The option’s yours.

Show more iPod storage details in iTunes graph

ollie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:18:30 +0000

When iTunes 7 came out, Apple competely redesigned the iPod section in iTunes. You can now look at all the different kinds of files on your iPod using the bar graph at the bottom of the page. This shows the total capacity of the iPod, and how much of that is being used up by Audio, Photos, Videos and Other files. To see this, plug in your iPod and open up iTunes. Click on your iPod in the Devices section in the left hand column. It gives you the details in terms of the iPods storage capacity, that is, in bytes. However, you can also use the graph to display a count of how many songs, photos and videos your iPod contains or how long it would take to listen to all the songs and watch all the videos. Change to this mode by clicking on the graph itself. Clicking once will cycle to the number count, clicking again will change it to the time count, and clicking one final time will change it back to the storage capacity.