Floola

Ever wanted to transfer your music from your iPod to your computer? No, you can't do that with iTunes... believe it or not. What seems to be a relatively simplistic task is otherwise impossible without using some third-party application.



Here comes Floola to the rescue! Despite the otherwise goofy name, this little application is a life saver for many who would like to spread their digital music collection love... or are just recovering from a hard drive failure.

In addition to allowing manipulation of your music collection on your iPod, Floola will also import incompatible song or video types and convert them to a format the iPod will recognize. But the fun doesn't stop there, Floola can also import YouTube and even MySpace videos by just supplying the URL.

The best part? Floola requires no installation, which means that if you enable your iPod for Disk Usage (an option selectable from within iTunes) then you can place Floola in its own directory on your iPod. Now, next time you connect your iPod to your computer, or a friends computer, you won't even need to open iTunes up to view, play or copy songs. Good stuff, good stuff in deed.

Even better? It's free!

Floola

Lifehacker 2007 Guide & iTunes Apps

Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps

Some great free apps in there. Some pretty obvious, but the are others that you would never have thought were free. OSI FTW! :)

The 23 Best iTunes Add-ons

They have also listed the 23 best iTunes add-on. I love iTunes. Although it is a little bloated and painfully slow with a fairly large media library (50+ GB), it is the easiest and most advanced music manager out there in my opinion. Lifehacker has put together some great add-ons that will enhance iTunes even more.

Some of the highlights:

• moreTunes - Displays an album art pop-up while playing and repairs metadata for your songs
  
• iTunes Export - Export your iTunes music library to an external storage device or another computer
  
• iTunes Sync - Get iTunes to sync with non-iPod mp3 players
• iSproggler - Automatically upload your iTunes listening habits to last.fm
  

There are a bunch more quality apps in there so definitely check out the complete list. There are some especially good ones for Mac users as well.