I'm taking a fresh look at iPod-enabled music players. Current candidates include:
- iTunes
- Songbird + its iPod-enabling add-on
- Floola
- Yamipod
Yeah, I'm Windows, so Mac-only and Linux-only players are out. I don't want to be further locking myself into Windows, so Windows-only players like Winamp are out. I'm not a glutton for punishment, so WINE+Linux doesn't count as being able to run a Windows-only player in Linux.
- Songbird (reviewed 7/15/08)
- It is a workable media player.
- Not portable by default. MIGHT be possible to run portably.
- With the iPod add-on, it accesses the iPod pretty well (without requiring the iTunes iPod driver).
- I can't seem to copy tunes from my iPod to a specified folder on my PC.
- Has some interesting add-ons and skinning. I don't like the default skin (white text on black background).
- Floola (reviewed 7/15/08)
- It is a workable media player. Simple.
- Portable.
- Copies files to PC with decent file naming options.
- Slow to exit.
- Yamipod (reviewed 7/15/07)
- It is a workable media player. Simple.
- Portable.
- Copies files to PC with decent file naming options.
I think I'll use Floola. From what I've read, Floola and Yamipod are both written by the same guy (they look a lot alike, including the readme.txt files), and he's paid more attention to Floola recently.