No more syncing (in a iTunes sense), no more headaches. The next time you want to import some media to it, simply fire it up and pick the files you want. SharePod is lightweight and is a self-executable so you can bring it along with you on a USB thumb-drive or store it directly on your iPod/iPhone as well. Going with the earlier example, if I remembered to have use SharePod on my friend’s iPhone, we could have avoided the multimedia content deletion on his device. You get to actually select what music and/or videos to sync to your device. As long as you are using SharePod, nothing will get deleted via a error sync with iTunes and whatnot.
The beauty of using this utility is that it doesn’t matter how many computers you plug your device into. Sharepod is a neat little utility that allows you to ‘truly’ manually manage your iPhone/iPod. A better alternative of Copy Trans Manager should now take the place of SharePod. SharePod As mentioned above, SharePod no longer works for IOS4+ devices.
#Sharepod 4.0 manual#
I totally forgot about performing the manual sync on his iPhone with Sharepod and so that is why I’m writing it here. When I tried turning on that option on my own iPhone, I wasn’t presented with that same dialog box which leads me to believe that the option should be applied on the user’s own computer. Needless to say, I hit OK and everything got erased. However, it presented me with a dialog box asking me if I was sure I wanted to manually manage the content on the device and that doing so will erase the media on that device. Just earlier today, a friend wanted to sync some music from my computer to his iPhone. If that actually worked everytime, I wouldn’t have written this article. Once the option has been turned on, you’ll be allowed to simply drag and drop music from your computer directly into your iPhone/iPod device under iTunes.
Some of you might know that there is an option in iTunes to ‘Manually manage your music and videos’ and in some cases, it works. The reason I say ‘might’ is because your results may vary.
That means that when you have a iPod or iPhone synced with your music library at your home computer, you better think twice the next time you plug in the device into another computer (your friends computer for example) and sync some songs to it because you might find out the hard way that all of your media will actually be erased instead. What I do know is that basically, the damn device isn’t smart enough to employ different sync profiles without doing some serious tweaking. Now I’m not a expert on this issue so that’s the way I think it works. Reason being that if you sync with more than one computer, the device thinks that you’ll want to get rid of and delete the media you currently have on the device for the media on the second computer. Apple recommends that you sync your iPod or iPhone with one and only one computer.
One of the main reason I dislike iTunes in general is due to the way it syncs media to your device. However, you’ll still want to read on because I’ll show you how you can actually transfer your music from your iPod/iPhone back onto your computer. I’ll start off by saying that if you are happy with the way you are syncing your media to your iPod or iPhone as of right now, there really isn’t much reason to switch to another method.
#Sharepod 4.0 update#
Hopefully an update in the future will fix things. IOS 4 has been out for quite some time now and the developer still cannot find a way around it. You’re just not allowed to copy anything new to it. So, you are still able to backup all of your media. Update: 11/18/10 It has just recently come to my attention that SharePod currently does not support write operations on Apple IOS 4 devices! However, it still allows you to perform an export.
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