No More iTunes!

Ever get tired of managing your MP3s with both Winamp and iTunes? Wary of giving Steve Jobs just a little too much power over your life? Or simply a firm believer of open source?

Will Fisher introduces the latest release of ml-iPod, which allows you to use Winamp to manage your iPod. This means no more worrying about weird updates for iPod and iTunes (which helped destabilize my desktop), that latter of which is a pretty, but memory-sucking application. This plugin allows you to retain much of the best functions of iTunes, such as being able to sort by artist, album, or track, and being able to create Playlists. Moreover, based on this screenshot, it seems you can copy music from the iPod to your hard drive. This is great for faster sharing of music between friends.

Waiting for a live site to download the executable file can take a while, but the download itself is small (less than 200 KB), the installation is very quick, and you don't have to reboot. Moreover, you can use your iPod as both hard drive and MP3 player at the same time. Good stuff!

[Cross-posted at Between Worlds]