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XPlay offers iPod access from Wintel

updated 08:45 am EST, Tue March 5, 2002

 
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Mediafour has released XPlay Preview 5, which offers the ability to rebuild the iPod song database on demand and eliminates many stability problems to the utility. The Windows utiltiy provides read and write access to your iPod hard drive for documents and data files, as well as the ability to organize music either from the Explorer-based XPlay interface, or from Windows Media Player.


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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    1st POST YEAH!!!

    Look for iPod sales to triple!

  1. Tigerabbit

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    03/05, 10:38am | report spam | Reply |

    Hmmm…

    Will Apple buy out these people once XPlay is finished?

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    Infectious

    This is still an "alpha release" preview. There seems to be "write-behind data lost" for some who transfer files in large volumes of music files. To date, they don't seem to have a fix for this. Living very near a couple of Apple stores, I have talked a few exclusive window's users into stopping in and buying them. I have had them bring over their iPods and show how elegantly they work on my Mac loading them with an eclectic selection of music they can listen to for the time being. I'm trying to talk them into simply bypassing Xplay and buying at least an iMac or iBook for their digital multimedia needs. We'll see if they get tired of waiting on a final candidate for Xplay and just cave. I can say they are highly impressed with their iPods, showing them off to everybody that they see who have asked what they are listening to. The elegance of iPod, if nothing else, is INFECTIOUS! :=)

  1. Zwilnik

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    03/05, 11:46am | report spam | Reply |

    Hoping

    I'm hoping Apple will wait until XPlay is finished then update the firmware on the iPod so it doesn't work anymore.
    I'd rather iPod was Mac only and perfect rather than PC compatible and partially usable. Not to mention making sure there are enough iPods available for Mac users without Windows users buying them all.

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    Hah

    I just had to laugh at that last post. Its funny. It really is.

  1. zaren

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    Re: Hoping

    I have to assume that your post forgot the sacrasm tags...

    Someone writing windows software to access the iPod doesn't make the iPod any less perfect, and it can only help ADD markershare, and more importantly, MINDSHARE, for Apple and it's products. Any other company in the world would be thrilled to have such a popular product that it can't be kept in stock. More power to Mediafour, I say!

  1. MacMan4Life

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    XPlay

    Apple should just create an application for those wintel users and sell it bundled with an iPod for a little markup. Say, 499 for iPod and Wintel accesable software? This would make it considerably cheaper for Mac users, and still allow apple to make a profit of those who haven't converted to macs... yet.

  1. Zwilnik

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    03/05, 01:02pm | report spam | Reply |

    no sarcasm

    No sarcasm tags needed. People lusting after iPods and realising how much better the whole package with a Mac is works out as much better mindshare than 'oh, that iPod is an expensive MP3 player that sort of works with my PC if I play around with the software a bit'.
    iPod + Mac = Lustability. The iPod is *seen* as perfect by PC users.
    iPod + PC = bit of a letdown = loss of mindshare and dissapointed Mac Users who's iPods are backordered 6 months (and they already have iMac backorders to complain about).
    If Apple can sell all the iPods they can make anyway, they won't make any more money from increasing the marketshare. They can increase the number of Macs they sell however by making sure the iPod is Mac only.

  1. bryan.falchuk

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    Mindshare

    What a brilliant concept...Mindshare. I think people would be more likely to think of Apple as a computer company than eMachines...let's get them ahead of companies like HP (A printer company) and Gateway (a dying company), and we'll be in a much better position.


    I think that, if the iPod is backordered as is, and production can't be increased without increasing costs or Apple's exposure to the risk of a downturn in the market for iPods, then there's no need for Window's compatibility right now. However, there is a possibility that, since the Mac market is so small, there will be some terminal velociy (if you will) to their sales in the Mac world, so, down the road, perhaps when the 10 or 20 GB versions arrive, a Windows version would be a good idea. Until then, I'm plenty happy have people lust after my iPod. I've already gotten 2 friends to buy Macs for the iPod (one is a DJ, and it has totally changed his business).

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    03/05, 03:01pm | report spam | Reply |

    'DJ'ing with MP3?

    HAHAHAHAHA!!!

    Maybe he can come and do my 11 year-old cousin's Girl's school gynasium 'dance'

    That's pathetic.

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