iPod sofware for MacOS X

iTunes, the award-winning digital-jukebox software, is now available for both Mac and Windows. The iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store that Mac users love, with the same music catalog, the same personal-use rights, and the same pricing of 99 cents per song. With music from all five major music companies and more than 200 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 songs. iTunes includes great features that make it the best digital-jukebox software for the Mac--a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3- and pristine-quality AAC-encoding from audio CDs, smart playlists, more than 250 free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, to burn content to DVDs to back up an entire music collection, and to share music via Rendezvous over any network, cross-platform.

Licence: Free

iPodRip can turn an ordinary iPod into the centre of your digital music experience. iPodRip 3 maintains your music library in iTunes with SmartSync technology. This technology scans your iTunes Library to synchronise your music. iPodRip 3 gives you flexibility importing songs of any file type including MP3, AAC, Audible.com, and Protected AAC. Version 3.9.1 now supports transfer of videos from iPod to iTunes, adds support for multiple iPods and video playback.

Licence: Free to try; $14.95 to buy

Essentially, iTunes turns your Mac into a jukebox that holds your digital music library, and also lets you play your favorite titles from your music CDs. You can also download music to your portable MP3 player and burn your own music CDs with the click of a button. You can edit MP3 tags, and iTunes comes equipped with a cool visualizer.

Licence: Free

This iPod accessory enables you to copy the contents of your iPod to any Mac that has a FireWire port. Specifically, it is useful for managing music and contacts. When copying music, Music Rescue will sort the copied files by artist and/or by album and can associate copied files with iTunes or any number of other MP3 player applications. When used to manage iPod contacts. PodUtil will scan the iPod you select for contacts and display them in a list. You can then edit or create contacts, which are saved automatically.

Licence: Free to try; $18.57 to buy

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It works with almost all popular video formats. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose TV or iPod size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer. On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime. Features: fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD; DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported; batch processing of multiple files; automatic aspect ratio detection.

Licence: Free