Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.
Features:
Cross plattform - Works on any Windows (98 and above), any Mac and any linux distribution with GTK installed.
No installation required - Put the application on iPod and launch it on any PC, immediately
Copy - add and extract songs to and from iPod
Playlists - Easily manage, import and export (m3u, pls) playlists
Last.fm - Join the social music revolution
Localization - Available in different languages
Lyrics - Lyric support even on older iPods (3G and above).
Search for duplicates - Easily find duplicated songs on iPod.
Search lost files - Easily find songs lost in your iPod
Artwork - Add artwork to your songs easily
Export to HTML - Create HTML files containing list of your iPod files
Fix iPod - Did a software mess up your iPod? Fix it!
Notes - Manage notes.
Music - Play iPodīs music
What's New in version 3.7:
improved podcast decode
better/faster user experience when adding podcast
error when adding many podcast at the same time
fit to screen (crop to 4:3 option) when converting
linux root=nil? error
tab order in preferences
fixed db writing error
fixed some rare problems when adding podcasts
visual glitch when renaming genres/artists/albums
sequential add when copying to iPod
artwork wasn't embedded in files when copying
improved mem usage when adding files to iPod
Czech translation updated
Hungarian translation updated
improvements and bug fixes in folder synchronization
fix playcount update when playing in Floola
skip count data wasn't correctly loaded from db
fixed album mixup
support for Nano4G
fixed issue with shuffle playcount
better quitting
fixed autocomplete with TAB
more iTunes like db
ascending/descending setting for playlists
smart playlists can be sorted by fields
new ffmpeg version (windows only)
minor issues with iteminfo window
more consistent autocomplete feature in iteminfo window
delete exception
fixed some minor issues with photo feature
faster quit
fixed artist/album mixup issue
swedish translation update
fixed issue searching for certain characters
fixed issue downloading certain podcasts (ex. CNN)
I have an iPod gen5+. I installed MPC+QT Alt & got this tool(it doesn't require installation) & kicked off iTunes etc bloatware. Now I am a lot happier. Thanks a lot to the developers.
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