Sunday, December 10th, 2006 at 10:56 PM
iPodDisk is a clever and more intuitive take on the “get music off your iPod” application, which works by creating a virtual disk “containing” your iPod’s music. While the music is already fairly accessible by browsing through hidden folders, iPodDisk attaches a new volume filled with folders arranged like those of the iPod’s own nested menus:
iPodDisk → Artist → Album → Songs.
Copying a song or album off your iPod is as easy as opening the folders in the Finder (or Terminal), locating what you want, and dragging it to your Desktop. iPodDisk invisibly retrieves the file from it’s hidden location on the iPod, and hands it over as if nothing out of the ordinary is going on.
Best of all, there’s no search function when using iPodDisk. How is this beneficial? When the virtual disk is mounted, Spotlight indexes the volume and readies it for live searching, making finding your desired music effortless.
I’ve written about applications like this before (such as PodWorks), but this solution seems just a tad easier, and it’s free (donationware).
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Great review. I downloaded it immediately to fix my problem: I have a PC formatted ipod and just got my shiny new Macbook Pro. I want to import my music into iTunes, but don’t have a simple way to do it. Hopefully ipoddisk will do it, though the only problem is that it’s a PPC application, and there isn’t a Universal binary of the latest version.