Samad’s Blog

Lately I’ve had a lot of issues with YamiPod. While backing up my music, YamiPod would almost always freeze up on certain songs. Regardless of copying in a batch or one by one, it would continually freeze on these songs for some reason. I honestly have no idea why, but it was getting extremely annoying - with a library of over 5000 songs, backing up takes time and I usually leave it running while I’m not there to monitor it. Anyway, after searching around for an alternative I decided to take a crack at SharePod, another 3rd party iPod manager that offers copying back to the PC from the iPod (and the reverse as well). To test it out, I decided to use the specific songs that YamiPod always jacked up on - and I was extremely satisfied with the result. SharePod copied over those songs with ease - no errors, problems, or missing data whatsoever. I tested each MP3 file the previous program was having issues with and each one was copied successfully from iPod to PC.

Though its not as important, SharePod’s user interface is MUCH nicer as well, and offers something nice to look at unlike YamiPod’s plain Windows 95 look.

Now I’m testing out to see if it will copy my entire library without a problem. Currently it is about 20% done, so I’m leaving it on overnight (though it won’t take more than another hour) and hopefully will wake up to good results. I’ll update this post with what happens!