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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 Macroplant:
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 3.9.9 fixes issue where some iPhone/iTouch devices weren't recognized.
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All versions:
4.3 starsout of 110 votes
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Current version:
4.7 starsout of 16 votes
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"Great product! Works perfectly!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
easy to use
Cons
none noticed till now
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"Works perfectly!!!!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
Easy to install
Easy to useCons
no cons...none at all
Summary
Was really frustrated trying to copy music from Ipod to pc. Gave me a migraine...but this simple program works perfectly...highly recommend :-)
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"Broke my 4s"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
Didnt work, and broke the phone to boot!
Cons
The fact I have to restore my phone to factory trumps all others.
Summary
Hate iTunes, was looking for an alternative. Used Sharepod, seemed easy enough. Except that it wasn't copying files to my 4S. Said effit, went back to itunes. Except that now Itunes cannot read my phone! and wants to restore to factory defaults. WHA?????
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"Does what it is supposed to and does it well."
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
The program has a small foot print with good features. Being able to drag my tunes into the ipod nano (6 gen) from windows explorer is a wonderful thing.
I tunes is nice but it's a huge and sluggish program that I don't care for. WMP is another one that seems to try to do too much. I couldn't get the nano paired with WMP which led me to SharePod. I'm quite pleased with it.Cons
It doesn't make my breakfast or coffee very well.
Summary
If you want a fast efficient solution to getting tunes on and off of you iPod, this is it.
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"Doesn't get any better than this!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
Free
Simple
QuickCons
None None None
Summary
Wasted so much time searching for a program like this only to find, expensive or stupid.
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"super simple, speedy process...GREAT program!!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
very user friendly...even for non-techy type
small time investment
free
easy, easy, easy!Cons
haven't found one
Summary
the time i spent researching how to get music from my ipod onto my phone took longer than figuring out and applying this program. soooooo glad i found it. after last night's lengthy first round of unsuccessful attempts to move my music, i expected to spend much of tonight problem solving. fortunately for me, the first search i did tonight landed the suggestion of sharepod within a couple minutes...and 15 minutes later (after reading reviews, etc), my music was loading onto my computer, then loaded successfully onto my phone! big appreciation, Sharepod! :-)
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"BEST THING EVER!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
Don't have to install it
Fast & Self Explanatory/EasyCons
None, it's perfect!
Summary
I had to erase my hard drive & I was all sad because none of my music could fit on a flash drive. So I found SharePod and it literally took 5 minutes to copy 896 songs to my computer!
Now all my music is saved to my computer again and they actually play in the Windows music player! Plus, you don't have to install it so you don't have to worry about a virus, however, I did delete the download from my computer just in case. I definitely recommend this program! -
"Thanks for getting me my music back!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
It did exactly what it said it would!
Cons
Nothing!!!!!
Summary
I was so bummed because I couldn't figure out how to get my music off my old ipod and of course Apple has to make everything 10x harder than it needs to be. Did a quick google search and BAM, this was so fast and so easy. Thanks a million!
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"Thank you!"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
got all my music and ring tones off of my phone.. 4000 of them! Saved me hours of ripping my few hundred CD's! When my old computer fried, I was so upset. But I'm almost in tears now because I'm so happy! Especially that it was free because I'm a student, and I can barely afford food!
Cons
there is none for me
Summary
Just, a big thank you!
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"Fast, Simple, & Complete transfer of from iPod to PC"
Version: SharePod 3.9.9
Pros
-Fast
-Simple
-Completely transfers all music files to any folder you want to on your Windows PC
-Free!Cons
-None really for me
Summary
I used a first gen iPod Touch and was able to transfer all of my music from there to my PC because my PC recently crashed and I had no backups (plus the music was from several PCs) and now I can put all my music on my Android phone :D
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