For those of you with iPods & Windows PCs, where can you find the OLD versions of SharePod freeware [any version prior to version 3.9.4]?

[Arlen Holder]

For those of you with iPods and Windows PCs...
o Where can you find the OLD versions of SharePod freeware?

Best is any version prior to 3.0 (which won't even need .NET Framework)
o But any version older or equal to "3.9.4 Preview 10" will still work

*Do you know where to find those older versions of SharePod freeware?*

==< look below for why it matters to anyone who owns an iPod & Windows >===
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:23:37 +1300, geoff wrote:

> Like trying to 'simply' copy some music files to an iPod (yes I have one).
>
> Android - simply drag and drop into phone's music folder. On iPod, nup -
> have to use the worst and most unintuitive app in the world, iTunes, or
> a 3rd party application to do it.

Hi geoff,

Please look at this screenshot I took for you just now to prove the point:
o <https://i.postimg.cc/fRtZFGSt/sharepod01.jpg>

Interestingly, this is a _classic_ case of where having iTunes _reduces_
your functionality, since copying works better without iTunes than with it.

I repeat (and easily prove):
o *You have MORE functionality _WITHOUT_ iTunes than you do with it!*

I, like you, have both Android, iPads, & iPods so I speak from experience.
o *You _gain_ functionality the moment you eliminate iTunes from your PC!*

The first step to copying, always, is to delete the iTunes abomination
o *Literally, if you add iTunes to Windows, you _lose_ functionality!*

Then, find an old version of SharePod freeware & copy it to your iPod
o With Sharepod freeware, you instantly turn that iPod into a USB stick
Name: SharePod.exe
Size: 5521408 bytes (5392 KiB)
SHA256: 858FAFCD8706271AA33B6696D3E42C9DE51ADCDD4F713A702CECFBE67E77540F

Here's a screenshot I took just now of Sharepod working on Windows 10:
o <https://i.postimg.cc/fRtZFGSt/sharepod01.jpg>

That happens to be Sharepod freeware, "version 3.9.4 Preview 10"
o Where it's a portable application which resides on the iPod itself

Note the power this gives you is astoundingly fantastic compared to iTunes!
1. Any iPod on the planet works with any PC on the planet
2. That means it doesn't matter whom the iPod is registered to
3. You don't need to maintain the idiotic "library" concept of iTunes

I can plug any iPod on the planet (no matter whom it's registered to)
into _any_ Windows PC on the planet and copy any songs to or from that
iPod to or from that PC simply by sliding them back and forth.

Like God intended things to work.
o The iPod is simply a USB device containing as many songs as will fit.

I pity people who own Apple devices who haven't figured this stuff out yet.
--
Apple makes those profits by removing functionality & then selling it back.

On 20/10/2020 11:38 am, Arlen Holder wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:47:33 -0400, nospam wrote:
>
>> connect the iphone to the pc via a usb cable and use windows explorer,
>> exactly the same as with android.
>>
>> to use explorer via wifi, use an app that serves smb, something not
>> possible on android without rooting, making it actually easier on ios.
>
> To be clear... iOS does NOT have the same copy functionality as Android
> o *Native iOS copy functionality is limited in two rather significant
ways*
> <https://i.postimg.cc/DZB9YDcR/copyfiles01.jpg>
>
> Given iOS USB file transfer functionality is decidedly NOT the same as
> Android, we should note for those who don't have both iOS & Android like
I
> do (and like Steve, the OP does), that it's decidedly not "the same"
> functionality as nospam claims.
>
> *There is _less_ copy functionality on iOS than there is on Android*
>
> That less native copy functionality difference in two significant areas
> 1. The direction of transfer (e.g., on Android, it's bidirectional)
> 2. The amount you can see (e.g., on Android, it's almost everything)
>
> By way of contrast, for iOS, you're always _limited_ in those two areas:
> A. For iOS, it's only one direction (i.e., the device is read only)
> B. For iOS, it's only photos/videos (i.e., not the visible file system)
>
> Other than those rather significant differences, um, yeah, it's the same:
> o <https://i.postimg.cc/DZB9YDcR/copyfiles01.jpg>
>