. . .had the chance to use the retail version of Mediafour Windows based IPOD software?
A friend of mine got a reconditioned iPod from an Apple employee for cheap. He tried EphPod along with Xplay (even registered them both). He said EphPod was the better of the two.
As a side story, he was having some problems with his firewire card, so brought it over to my place to try (my PC sound card came with a firewire port). I installed EphPod (the free version) and dumped a 1.5G directory of music {Paul Oakenfold} into the iPod as a test. Software worked well, and quickly--no learning curve.
On his PC, his firewire card was able to talk to his iPod, download music, etc, but somehow ultimately corrupted the iPod directory structure to the point making it unusable. I don't know how this could possibly be, but supposedly it is a known issue with some firewire chipsets. So, to make a boring story shorter, apparently not every firewire card on a PC will result in easy iPod usage (no matter how good the music sync software is).
The good news to me, though, is that at least I can borrow his iPod and use it for long plane trips. :)
Steve |
