iPod Tip: Pod Player

Today I came across a piece of software called Pod Player :

"Pod Player is a freeware application to be used with your iPod. It allows you to play music from your iPod while it is connected to your PC. When launched, it will look for an attached iPod and when it finds one it will read the music database on the iPod. You will then be able to views your songs in a similar way as in iTunes (by artist, genre, album, playlist, etc). You can now also extract songs from it. There are a few little extra features such as iPod Hacks, checking for duplicates etc. You can play your music on any computer when you iPod is connected without the need to install any programs such as iTunes."

Now thats all well and good but if you have an iPod already then it's more than likely that your PC has iTunes or one of the other various programmes that perform the way iTunes does.

The beauty of this programme is that it's in a single exe file that can be stored on your iPod itself as it's only 454kb. It also allows you to extract songs from the connected iPod to the computer for all your backup needs ;) Now that makes it useful!

All you need to do is enable disk access on your iPod and copy the exe across then hey presto you have a portable solution to allow you to play your iTunes on any PC that has a spare USB port. The only snag is that the machine playing the files needs the right codec in order to be able to play the files. So in the majority of cases the files will be in MP3 format and there shouldn't be a problem although you may have problems with your AAC audio.

Quite neat though.