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What is the best software? I defenatly wont use MMJB, its the worst program ever made. But i heard good words of both Xplay and Ephpod?
Originally posted by Muic
What is the best software? I defenatly wont use MMJB, its the worst program ever made. But i heard good words of both Xplay and Ephpod?
If you want to simply synch with the ipod, go with ephpod. Xplay synchs nicely as well, but it doesn't do anything else--if you're going to fork out money for an application that works with the Ipod, I'd strongly recommend going with Media Center 9--it does much, much more than Xplay--synchs with the ipod, rips, encodes, burns, etc.
The nice thing about both Xplay and Media Center 9 is that you can trial both for 30 days for free, then decide which one suits you best.
Media Center 9 sounds nice, guess ill try that out in the near future. thanks for the tip :)
kamj12
05-12-2003, 06:39 PM
I downloaded Ephpod. And if i wanted to used either x-play or MC9, will i need to uninstall Ephpod? The reason I asked is because I read about some people having troubles in syncing with x-play, and they end up uninstalling the MMJB. The problem went away afterward.
Originally posted by kamj12
I downloaded Ephpod. And if i wanted to used either x-play or MC9, will i need to uninstall Ephpod? The reason I asked is because I read about some people having troubles in syncing with x-play, and they end up uninstalling the MMJB. The problem went away afterward.
You won't need to uninstall ephpod--during MC9's development, when it was in beta, I'd occasionally use ephpod if MC9 was having problems.
Can't help you with Xplay, never had it on my HD at the same time with MC9.
nickpod
05-15-2003, 01:27 AM
that ephpod installs, that also expires 15 days after install.
Is it a necesasry application for using ephpod? And simply syncing?
thanks
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Kenny
05-15-2003, 01:34 AM
macopener is not needed.
It was used before when the first iPods came out as mac only...
nickpod
05-15-2003, 01:57 AM
will it all work with just ephpod?
cool!
Kenny
05-15-2003, 02:25 AM
I believe that you can use a winiPod on a Mac, but you cant use a maciPod on a windows machine (or is it the other way around?). To do the later, you'll probably need macopener...
I tried out EphPod, its really nice! works great and has lots of nice options. Xplay have some bugs i dont like, but is very simple and easy. But I guess I`ll go with EphPod from now on....
kamj12
05-18-2003, 05:14 AM
xplay is purely a window explorer... drag and drop type of syncing... i would like to use ephpod, but xplay is the only one supports mp3 with unicode/chinese format
ephpod definitely has a bit more options.
m.r.m.
05-18-2003, 12:52 PM
Originally posted by Kenny
I believe that you can use a winiPod on a Mac, but you cant use a maciPod on a windows machine (or is it the other way around?). To do the later, you'll probably need macopener...
os x recognises fat32. windows doesn?t recognise hfs+, so you need to format your ipod to fat32, if it should run with ephpod without macopener.
@ jah, ephpod can?t rip cd?s. the best way to rip cd?s and encode them to mp3?s is using eac/lame.
nickpod
05-18-2003, 01:10 PM
what is eac/lame?
m.r.m.
05-18-2003, 01:18 PM
click here for eac/lame info! (http://ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=613&highlight=chris+myden)
search the old forum database for much more info!
thx mrm .. 1 more questions .. is MC9 one of the best progs to rip music?
m.r.m.
05-18-2003, 02:16 PM
i don?t know. i?ve never used mc9. i guess it all depends on how specific you are. i recommend eac/lame. just read the chris myden link. it?s all fairly easy actually. you just have to get the hang of it. try out mc9 and see for yourself. if you?re happy with the results, there is no need to look any further. why don?t you ask the question how good mc9 is in ripping compared to eac/lame, in the mc9 forum? that way you?ll know for sure.
:) thx .. hehe i forget there was a forum for that ;)
destined_wind
05-18-2003, 04:40 PM
Easy CD-DA extractor... I have been using this program for about a year now. The best part about it is it's interface is extremely easy to use and you can rip in almost all bit rates and use LAME or WMA... Plus, you can convert mass amounts of music from one format to another... it's fabulous, trust me...