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May 25, 2005
Winamp Hacks the iPod
Perhaps you're one of the jaded masses that purchased an iPod, only to discover that you can put songs into it, but you can't get them out. It's like a little black hole for music. The only reason that it works this way, of course, is because of the behind-the-scenes influence peddling by the thought police at the World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO) and the Recording Industry Aggravators of Amerika(RIAA).
They designed the iPod so that you couldn't pull songs out of it to prevent piracy. Of course, as a result, they made it much less useful. How'd you like to send a big "F.U." to your friends at Apple, WIPO, and the RIAA? Well now you can, thanks to the new plug-in for WinAmp. Now you can play your iPod songs using WinAmp instead of iTunes, and, more importantly, you can extract songs from your iPod player as well.
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on May 25, 2005 at 03:17 PM
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A big hug and thank you from my daughter!
Posted by: Uzi on May 30, 2005 at 10:17 AM
No problem. Glad I could be of assistance. I think it's pathetic that Apple won't allow the iPod to be used as a USB drive, that works like any other drive in Windows Explorer. The only reason they don't is that they're afraid of people copying files, but that's not really what it is used for anyway. It's nice to have a 40 gig hard drive that you can plug-and-play with any Windows 2000/XP PC. You can move large files from home to work and vice-verca. Limiting this feature makes the iPod less useful.
Posted by: Peenie Wallie on May 30, 2005 at 09:14 PM
You can pull songs out of your ipod using CopyPod ;-)
Posted by: jazo123 on February 25, 2006 at 09:48 PM
Thanks for the tip on CopyPod. Not sure how it compares to WinAmp, but it isn't free. You can get a 14 day free trial, or buy it for 20 clams. Note: This product is currenly only available for Windows.
Posted by: Peenie Wallie on February 26, 2006 at 12:44 AM
gracias mucho oh rebellious one :)the peeniewallie thing is ridic.!
Posted by: zuzi on March 22, 2008 at 12:46 PM