Sharepod is a music manager freeware, specially designed and created to copy music on
your Ipod so that you can share your music collection with other computers without any
installation. It is more flexible, quick and responsive and was primarily designed to be
small in size. With sharepod 3, you can create play lists compatible with winamp to listen
to your music directly from your Ipod, without having to copy files on your hard disk
previously. Sharepod has made continuous improvement since its first version in view to
enhance and adapt to users request.
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How to install Sharepod on your computer?
1. After Downloading Sharepod, extract contents of Zip file to your Ipod drive. Your
Ipod should appears as Removable disk in “My Computer” when same connected
to your computer. This process might take few minutes for this version to find
Ipod from your computer hard disk.
2. Go to Sharepod Folder. Double click on Sharepod.exe. If message “Failure to
initialize” appear on your screen, you need to download the Microsoft.NET
Framework 2.0 to run sharepod. Note this program is installed by default under
vista.
Please be careful not to run Sharepod and iTunes simultaneously as iPod might get
out of sync with both software.
Disable iTunes
Ensure Ipod is connected to your computer. Select removable disk in “My Computer”,
Open iTunes if not set as default. Select iPod and click “Settings” and disable option “Open iTunes when Ipod is attached”.
Then, scroll down and uncheck “Options”.
Next step is to “Enable disk use” and click “Apply”.
How to use Sharepod?
After the following configuration, go to file Sharepod and double-click on the below found icon:
The “Playlist on the left of your screen is called the master playlist as it contains all the
musics and files on your Sharepod. Below are listed options to copy file to your computer:
Select desired files and click on “Copy to PC” on top of window.
Copy file from your iPod by dragging selected file into Windows Explorer.
To copy a playlist to your computer, right click on selected playlist and click on
Copy to PC”. This will automatically copied all musics from the file to your computer.
If you want to copy all musics from your iPod to your computer, you just have to
right click on the Master playlist and select “Copy to PC”. This will copy all files
music to your computer.
To browse music from your computer to your iPod, you just have to drag files and folders
from Windows Explorer to Master playlist. Also you can click “Copy to Ipod” button on
classified above options. Sharepod can support MP3 M4a and M4v files. However, WAV
file must be added. What is fantastic with sharepod is that it detects duplication of same
music file so that you don’t copy same tracks twice.
SharePod checks that you dont copy the same tracks multiple times by checking for
tracks currently on the iPod with the same Title, Artist and Album tags.