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DESCRIPTION
PodWorks is a Mac OS X application that compensates for the iPod's only downside: Apple only allows you to copy songs to your iPod. If you have two Macs and want to use your iPod to transfer music from one to the other, or you only store your music and videos on your iPod and need to copy them back onto your hard drive after a disk failure, you are out of luck!
This is where PodWorks comes in: it allows you to copy songs and videos from any iPod or iPhone to any Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher. Its important features include:
- iPhone support: PodWorks is the first (and currently only) iPod song transfer app for the Mac to recognize and allow transfers from the iPhone.
- Superior performance: Many other standalone iPod song transfer utilities work by reading song data out of every song on the iPod--a slow process. PodWorks, by contrast, reads its data directly from the iPod's internal database, resulting in nearly instantaneous display of your song list.
- More metadata: Since PodWorks can read from the iPod's internal database, it can also display and sort by song "metadata" not available through ID3 (including Date Added, Play Count, and Star Rating).
- iTunes integration: In addition to copying songs to the Finder, PodWorks can send songs, playlists (registered version only), and metadata (star ratings, play counts, track numbers, etc.) directly to iTunes. It can also filter its song list to show you only the songs on the iPod that are not present in your iTunes library.
- Playlists: PodWorks recognizes your iPod's playlists. Entire playlists can be copied to your computer with a single drag (registered version only).
- Song Playback: PodWorks allows you to preview songs before you copy them by playing them directly off the iPod (not yet available for iPhone).
- Strong organizational capabilities: Copying large numbers of files can get messy, so PodWorks can automatically sort transferred files into directories and change their filenames according to your preferences.
- Portability: PodWorks can be placed on your iPod for convenient access away from your home computer. It will work when run off the iPod, and will remember its registration information even when connected to a previously unknown machine.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.9.5: Fixed an issue where track numbers, disc numbers, and iTunes comments weren't being read out of the database and synced back to iTunes properly.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, iPod.
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| PodWorks User Reviews (37 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 29 2009 |
STAINBOY if you're a PodWorks user and saw it stop working when you updated your iPhone or iPod Touch to the 3.0 software, never fear...the developer has a compatible version in beta that will be released shortly.
(Version 2.9.3) | |
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 | Mar 6 2009 |
22DUKE why does this software not automatically skip errors and continue it's work??? Does the developer really expect us to babysit the application for several hours 9 so far for 60GB of music?? It also does not seem to transfer movies well every second one creates an error message and manual intervention to continue the progress is needed :-(
(Version 2.9.3) | |
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| Feb 28 2009 |
LDANDERSEN Just a note from the developer to let everyone know that with the release of PodWorks 2.9, PodWorks development is back on track and I believe all of the outstanding issues mentioned below have been resolved. I promise PodWorks won't go a year and a half without an update again, and I'm very much looking forward to "thinking outside the box" a bit with PodWorks 3.0 now. Thanks for your patience and continuing support--I look forward to serving your iPod management needs for a long time :-). So it has been already over a year and a half since this pledge was made. Apparently, this software project has been abandoned.
(Version 2.9.3) | |
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| Oct 12 2008 |
M-RICK It has crashed more than 15 times to be able to take back my 8000 songs from my iPod !! Not a very good performance for this. But it is the only which has been to recover all the songs without duplicating a lot of them, only 40. So it only get 3 stars thanks to this. To get more resolve for your really serious unstbility problems ! So the pricing remaining always to much high for something that will not work correctly.
(Version 2.9.3) | |
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| Aug 24 2008 |
DTMP Worked as advertised with my Touch, tried a lot of others with no luck, this one worked without a hitch.
(Version 2.9.3) | |
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| May 23 2008 |
MOOSEMOOSE I've been using PodWorks since about April 2004 if memory serves. Despite the lack of an update in over a year, it's always been useful to me and has never failed. I don't think I've ever come across a single programme that has given me more than this.
(Version 2.9.3) | |
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| May 23 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN "Despite the lack of an update in over a year..." This version, 2.9.3, was released two months ago.
(Version 2.9.3) | |
| Apr 29 2008 |
LIZZIM I DO NOT suggest this program! My computer was stolen, so the only music I had was left on my ipod. I just downloaded this program in hopes it would allow me to put my music on my new computer. Instead, it started to transfer my music to itunes. When I played my music back, it wouldn't play the songs back for longer than 10 seconds. Then, my itunes freaked out because my ipod was connected to two programs and not synched, so it deleted EVERYTHING on my ipod. I now have nothing. Thank for ruining my life PodWorks. Do Not Use This Program...unless you are a computer star and can work it properly...then just maybe. p.s. why werent there directions or warnings?!
(Version 2.9.3) | |
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 | Jun 27 2008 |
DRAELREN because it's fun to see people like you *dramatic drums* ruining your life yourself? lol your comp was stolen? your new one didn't have any songs? and you didn't uncheck 'sync music' and 'open itunes when ipod connected' immediately after itunes startup? sorry buddy, no one else to blame but yourself....
(Version 2.9.3) | |
 | Jul 17 2007 |
LDANDERSEN Just a note from the developer to let everyone know that with the release of PodWorks 2.9, PodWorks development is back on track and I believe all of the outstanding issues mentioned below have been resolved. I promise PodWorks won't go a year and a half without an update again, and I'm very much looking forward to "thinking outside the box" a bit with PodWorks 3.0 now. Thanks for your patience and continuing support--I look forward to serving your iPod management needs for a long time :-).
(Version 2.9) | |
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| Oct 17 2006 |
SHOCK J I bought this application a few years back. Think it's great. But it hasn't been updated in over a year. Are we going to get a UB version of this anytime soon, or ever. There are a lot of alternatives that ARE being updated.
(Version 2.8.5) | |
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| Jul 17 2007 |
Just a note to let you know, PodWorks development is now back on track with version 2.9. I promise not to go a year and a half without an update again :-).
(Version 2.9) | |
| Jun 2 2006 |
MEDIA4D So nice, I bought it twice :) It's a great piece of software, simple, rock-solid, and I forget I have it, till I need it. And boy, does it payoff every time I have to use it. Buzz is very responsive in answering questions too.. A real mac gem.
(Version 2.8.5) | |
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