CNET Editors' review
Apple makes extracting your music from your iPod unnecessarily difficult, which is where SharePod comes in. This fast freeware tool efficiently transfers your music collection to your hard drive, making it easy to back up or restore your music, videos, and photos. It also transfers playlists, album art, and ratings, both to your hard drive and directly into iTunes.
SharePod comes with features that many competitors lack. Not only can you transfer your files, you can also perform some basic editing. You can use it to delete art, playlists, music, and videos from your iPod, edit tags, and you can also transfer from your computer to your iPod without having to use iTunes. When you copy, you can set the folder architecture to one of three defaults, or customize your own. One key feature of SharePod is that it comes with a database backup, so if something goes awry during the transfer process, it's a simple procedure to restore it.
The program comes in an archive, not a self-extracting EXE file. The EXE file is tiny, however, weighing in at just 5.4MB, so it's small enough to carry around on your iPod. SharePod is surprisingly effective. In transferring more than 7,000 songs and their accompanying artwork, playlists, and ratings, SharePod only freaked out on two dozen tracks. Notably, it doesn't stop copying, instead logging which files copy successfully and which don't. Given how hassle-free it is and how good it is at what it does, it's hard not to consider SharePod a must-have.
Publisher's Description
From Jeff Harris:
SharePod is a free program which allows you to easily and quickly share your iPod music collection with friends. The program can back up and restore your entire iPod or simply copy individual tracks to and from the device. SharePod can also add, remove, and edit playlists, import music/videos into your iTunes library, including playlists and ratings.
What's new in this version: Version 3.9.8 has provided support for iPhone or iTouch using iTunes 10.5.
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All versions:
4.3 starsout of 88 votes
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Current version:
4.6 starsout of 8 votes
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"Just Perfect"
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
I does just what it promises, you can transfer your music from the ipod to the computer without any problem.
Cons
Havent detected any
Summary
Just installed it, pluged my ipod, it recognized my entire library, gave me a couple of options to organize the music and that was it, tranferred my music to my PC after hours of trying other ways.
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"Best program for the job!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
Works with itouch and not just ipods
easy to use
doesnt take long at all!Cons
none at all:)
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"Awesome. Does what it says it will."
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
Free and it works.
Cons
None so far.
Summary
Great software. It's free and does what it says it will do.
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"Very Efficient"
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
Small application but efficient
Cons
Should have an icon to bring up the application after download
Summary
Would recommend to every I-Tune users
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"Amazing and free no limits or annoying trials"
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
everything.. this software is free and easy to use and there is no purchasing or limits on file transfers.does what i needed to do
Cons
none so far
Summary
best software around for ipod ripping and transfering
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"That Was Weird"
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
I was racking my brains trying to find a program that would let me pull songs and videos off of my I-Pod. After downloading this program, I checked "My Computer" and clicked on the I-Pod. You can pull songs and videos off of your I-Pod simply by using drag and drop from C drive to wherever you want on your computer. Your videos are listed on the IPOD as MP4. Anyway, by using this Sharepod program I was able to figure it out.
Cons
No cons just common sense ideas.
Summary
It's a great program. There is a donation button on the Sharepod website. I'll donate because they gave me some pretty good information and the song names are easily transferable by using this tool.
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"Outstanding is an understatement"
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
Fast, reliable and free.
Cons
I could not mention any.
Summary
After wrestling with MANY iPod to PC softwares, many of them commercial, I found SharePod. Worked better than any of the others and backed-up 1163 files of music in less than 5 minutes. Thank you SharePod guys for existing!!!!
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"Very Useful"
Version: SharePod 3.9.8
Pros
Very useful and easy to use
Cons
Crashes after being used once, I had to restart my PC before being able to use it again.
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