It didn't take long for my "what if" scenerios to infest my newest favorite, the iPod mini that my wife gave me for my birthday. I just spent the greater part of this evening looking into ways to mod this beautiful little device and improve on Apple's already perfect interface. You know how geeks work. It started like this. You can rate songs on a 1 to 5 scale both in iTunes and on the iPod. Great. However, if you bypass the autosync routines in iTunes (I WOULD have to do the "manual" thing), then the ratings made on the iPod do not transfer. Well, that... just... won't... do. Now how to tweak the system to bring in the ever so precious ratings. Someone found a way to bypass the manual bug on ipodlounge. However, to do that, I would end up deleting the contents of my iPod and would have to reformat. No, I don't like the sound of that. So, enter my search for a way to move my iPod's contents back to the hard drive. I found it here. This little utility installs on the iPod itself, allowing you to plug it in to any computer and move songs off the iPod onto the computer. Then I found this. iPod Agent not only allows you to move tunes off the iPod, it will sync your Outlook mail, calendar, notes, RSS text feeds, Podcasts, you name it, to your iPod. It just keeps getting deeper. What's next?

Geez, that was a lot of techno babble.

This operation is still in process.

I'll let you know if it works.

AVed at 4/02/2005 12:05:00 AM | LINK |