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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 41,740
- Downloads last week: 424
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 16 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on February 04, 2009
There are a lot of music jukeboxes out there that aren't iTunes that work with iPods. Cross-platform Floola is one of the few, if only, portable music players that not only works with your iPod, it will work from your iPod, too. The program's fully compatible with your desktop iTunes installation, but can be run from the iPod itself.
The features it offers are comprehensive and robust, including music, video, note taking, and photo support. The latest version includes Google Calendar synchronization. The interface is simple, bordering on simplistic, and is rife with minor imperfections. Don't let that keep you from checking it out, though, because there's an incredible amount that you can do with Floola. It can also copy songs from your iPod to your computer, grab videos from the Web, and, if you want, convert them to audio-only. It supports podcast catching, playlists, and will tell you if a song is not on a playlist. The Edit Song window lacks tags, but will--among its many features--reveal the absolute location of the song on the iPod, cracking Apple's labyrinthine system.
Floola is a work in progress. The conversion utility is buggy, and newer iPods won't be compatible with the iPod-specific fwid hardware code. Instructions on how to obtain it are available in the Floola FAQ. Floola also doesn't play well with non-Apple jukeboxes, and you might need to use the iPod firmware repair available in iTunes or Floola to get it to work. Despite these problems, Floola is truly portable and works well enough to be considered a strong iTunes alternative.
Publisher's description
From Floola :Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Floola can be run easily directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.
Version 5.1 adds chapter support in audiobooks, improves artwork duplicate detection when adding compilations and fixes some sorting issues.
What's new in this version:
Version 5.1 adds chapter support in audiobooks, improves artwork duplicate detection when adding compilations and fixes some sorting issues.
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User reviews of Floola for Windows 5.2
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Version: Floola for Windows 5.2
Pros: Looks like it is very useful and has a lot of functionality
Cons: Doesn't work with iPod Touch 2G
Summary: Doesn't work with my iPod. So it's useless to me
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Version: Floola for Windows 5.2
Pros: Small and fast program. No Windows 'installation', so does not add anything to Registry and can run in your iPod. Does everything but manage a 'library', which I didn't want it to do. Very simple and intuitive user interface.
Cons: It's not a 'library' manager, wihich for some folks might be a 'con', but I don't want that, so for me this is actually a 'pro'.
Summary: I 've been using this through several version updates, and JUST LOVE IT, enough to have made a contribution to the developer (even though it's 'freeware'.
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