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Comments on: Sync any MP3 player with iTunes

You can make any non-iPod, even a USB drive, play nice with iTunes with these apps.

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by Pon666 June 7, 2009 4:21 AM PDT: Now this is cool. Thank you Tom I-do-it-on-the-first-take.; Like this Reply to this comment

by make_or_break June 7, 2009 4:50 AM PDT

Even a Zune? Geez, that would make Redmond froth...

As an aside: this only goes so far since iTunes only understands its own supported formats. Anyone running any amount of WMA content is SOL, at least with continuing with that material. Better to use a third party app like MediaMonkey or Winamp...unless of course you have the aforementioned, poor, pitiful, and proprietary Zune...

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by make_or_break June 7, 2009 6:17 AM PDT: I couldn't resist, so I installed the current release of iTunes Agent, which btw CNET's download page DOESN'T link to. Turns out I had already installed a far earlier release some time ago and then promptly forgot about it. I suppose that shows how much of an impression it made THEN.

Regarding MSFT's proprietary eco-system: of course it was too good to be true. Without first hacking a Zune device to change how Windows views it, iTunes Agent doesn't recognize it since it needs to have Windows assign a drive letter to the place...something that Windoze doesn't do with any unmolested Zune. End of discussion with iTunes Agent and Zune...

Other devices: even with my File Manager, drag-n-drop capable Sony Walkman NWZ-A816 that I was willing to use as a proverbial Guinea Pig for the sake of testing this software, iTunes Agent decides to auto-assign drive letter C:\ (!) to it (again, another device that Windows itself doesn't assign a drive letter to) with no means of manually CHANGING the drive designation. Frankly that's pretty scary stuff. So if I were to attempt a device synch with the Sony, will iTunes Agent choose to WIPE OUT my actual BOOT DRIVE instead?

IF I happened to have a spare Windows box and IF I didn't mind losing the boot drive and IF it was just lying around doing nothing (a LOT of qualifiers there)....MAYBE I'd try it, but since I don't...I WON'T.

So maybe it works fine with a flash drive. That's some ways from an actual, ACTIVELY POWERED MP3 player. Try it again, iTunes Agent...and CNET for recommending this questionable piece of software. MediaMonkey, Songbird or WInamp is still the better (and safer) bet than trying to use iTunes with iTunes Agent to manage "any" old MP3 device.; Like this


by monkeymind400 July 29, 2009 11:42 AM PDT: make_or_break: Didn't quite understand all that you said about about this download (". . . iTunes Agent decides to auto-assign drive letter C:\ (!) to it (again, another device that Windows itself doesn't assign a drive letter to) with no means of manually CHANGING the drive designation. Frankly that's pretty scary stuff. So if I were to attempt a device synch with the Sony, will iTunes Agent choose to WIPE OUT my actual BOOT DRIVE instead?")

But I just bought a new Insignia Pilot. This download could screw it up?

I would love to be able to sync it with iTunes, but I don't want to take any chances on breaking it.; Like this


by mgheff June 7, 2009 7:23 AM PDT: cool. if i put a microSD card in my phone, then hook it to my computer, can I sink my music to that? BTW I have a Mac.; Like this Reply to this comment


by rohit2.menon June 7, 2009 9:14 AM PDT: There's Salling Media Sync for Windows that does the same thing for your phone.
I have my 5800 hooked up to iTunes :)

http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/Windows/; Like this Reply to this comment


by rbrown653 June 7, 2009 6:48 PM PDT: This is cool but is there a way to do the opposite? I love my ipod but I hate itunes and would love to sync my ipod with windows media player or the media center. Is that possible?; Like this Reply to this comment


by That_Guy_Rules June 8, 2009 2:33 AM PDT: yea there is a way, if it is a ipod touch then you could jailbreak it; Like this Reply to this comment

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