If your iPod is not detected by MGTEK dopisp, or if an error occurs while the iPod is accessed, the iPod may not appear in Windows Media Player when you connect your iPod to your computer. If the iPod does not appear in Windows Media Player, please check the status of the iPod:
While MGTEK dopisp supports most iPods, there may be certain outdated or recently released iPod models that are not supported. To verify whether your iPod model is a supported device, see the System Requirements.
If you have installed a version of MGTEK dopisp that was released before your iPod became available, you need to install the latest version of MGTEK dopisp. If you do not know whether your version of MGTEK dopisp works with your new iPod, simply try installing the latest version of MGTEK dopisp.
All iOS devices, such as the iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad, require a Windows driver to make it work in Windows. Currently, installing iTunes is the only way to obtain the iOS drivers. If the iOS driver package is not installed, corrupted, or removed, the iPod will not work in Windows, and it will not work with dopisp either. If you suspect that the iOS drivers are not installed correctly, try installing the latest version of iTunes.
If you have the 64-bit version of Windows installed, make sure you are running the 32-bit version of Windows Media Player. The 32-bit version is the default player on the 64-bit version of Windows; however, you if you manually switch to the 64-bit version of Windows Media Player, you will not be able to run 32-bit plug-ins, including MGTEK dopisp.
In order to rule out any problems that are unrelated with MGTEK dopisp, try your iPod with Apple iTunes. If your iPod does not work with Apple iTunes either, it is most certainly not a problem related to MGTEK dopisp and you will have to seek help from Apple first.
In order to access your iPod, MGTEK dopisp has to be able to see your iPod as a disk drive. If you have an iPod shuffle and you still have iTunes installed, you need to make sure that Disk Mode is enabled.
If you ever tried to sync your iPod using Windows Media Player, then you know that the two just won't play together. Unfortunately, the only way to sync your iPod is to use Apple's iTunes software. Till today... That's right, kiss iTunes goodbye and start syncing your iPod with Windows Media Player! Finally, there is a solution that is fully integrated into Windows Media Player.
MGTEK dopisp is a plug-in for Windows Media Player that enables you to sync your MP3 music to your iPod directly from within Windows Media Player. There is no external user interface, no fluff, not even a program icon to click on. Just connect your iPod, fire up Windows Media Player, start moving your music to your iPod, and forget that the two once didn't play together.
To see how easy it is to sync music to your iPod using Windows Media Player 11, click on one of the screenshots below. Just add some music to the Sync List and then simply click the Start Sync button.
If you would like to try MGTEK dopisp, we are pleased to provide you with a free evaluation version. The download has a 30-days time limit, and requires a license key to continue to function beyond the evaluation period.
To download MGTEK dopisp, click the button below:
Up until recently, I've never had an iPod. It wasn't that I didn't like them - I think they're the best looking MP3 players out there. There was one reason, and one reason only that I hadn't bought one - iTunes. On Windows, and it has to be amongst the clunkiest applications from a major software company I've ever used. I'm not sure if it's because of the desire to make it look like a Mac and custom-draw everything, or just sloppy coding. It just always seems clunky and unresponsive, and hogs machine resources.
To make things worse, Apple started telling people not to upgrade to Vista because iTunes didn't work properly on it. WTF! Apple had how long to sort this out? You can't just tell people not to upgrade their operating system because you failed at meeting the deadline for your music player! (I do see this has since been fixed).
Anyway, back to the point. What stopped me buying an iPod was iTunes. The software is nasty, and I already have my music collection in Windows Media Player, which plays nice with Windows Media Center and my Xbox 360. If Apple made the iPod work with Windows Media Player, I'd have bought one. Assuming there are other people like me, Apple are losing potential business by trying to force people on to iTunes. I found there were a few ways to get Windows Media Player to work with the iPod, but it required 3rd party plugins (and cost money), and I wasn't about to buy an iPod to find these solutions aren't stable.
As fate would have it, I received a Blue 4GB iPod nano from my auntie when she was visiting from the US. The whole idea of not wanting to buy one in case it didn't work was squashed. I had an iPod, and I was going to use it, with or without Windows Media Player support!
When I got home, I downloaded a trial of MGTEK dopisp - one of the plugins claiming to get the iPod working with Windows Media Player. There are a few other plugins to do this, but a quick Google revealed less unhappy people using this one! I installed the plugin, connected my iPod, and fired up Windows Media Player.
Error! I was greeted with a dialog telling my my iPod had never been set up (via iTunes) and couldn't be used. I had a feeling this would happen, and luckily I had a laptop running Windows XP I was about to flatten! I installed iTunes and set up the iPod, then tried again. The iPod now appeared (with the name I assigned in iTunes) in Windows Media Player as a mobile device. I grabbed a few songs and tried to sync. It worked. It worked exactly like I wanted it to. It was that easy.
That makes me wonder why Apple didn't write a similar plugin? I understand they really want people to use iTunes, but is it really worth losing iPod sales over? Forcing people to use your software is not the way to do business. Sell your iPod on what it is. Sell iTunes on what it is. If people just want one, let them have it. You're lucky I received an iPod as a present, because you'd have missed out on this sale without native Windows Media Player support.
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