Jazz Odyssey

A recently released plug-in to the popular Winamp audio player allows users to use Winamp to manage music on their iPods, eliminating the need to use iTunes as a music manager/organizer for their iPod. In fact, the Winamp plug-in offers functionality above and beyond iTunes, including the ability to synchronize multiple iPods with one music library as well as the option that will be of interest to most users — the ability to easily move songs from an iPod onto a hard drive. This is a simple process for non-DRM wrapped files…files with DRM require the additional step of stripping the DRM using software from the Hymn Project. The footprint of Winamp with the plug-in is very small (under 5 meg of disk space) and uses few system resources.

I’ve been using Anapod to manage music on my iPod since day one and I’ve been very happy with it. But I certainly plan on giving the Winamp plug-in a test drive…certainly before Apple releases the inevitable iPod firmware upgrade that prevents the Winamp plug-in from working…