How to Share Photos and Videos among Apple Devices (iPad/iPhone/iPod/Mac)

If you recorded several video clips on your iPhone and now you want to sync them to your iPad, you may be looking for a less complicated way than iTunes to transfer them from your iPhone to your iPad. If you took some amazing photos with your iPod touch 4 and now you want to move them to your Mac to create a photo slideshow in iMovie, in what way will you get the iPod pics over to your Mac?

Of course, you can launch iTunes and connect your device to your computer via USB cable to have your photos and videos transferred. Yet, as I know, many Apple fans do not like to use iTunes to sync media. On one hand, when you open the iPad/iPhone/iPod folder in your computer, what you will find are numerous folders with unmeaningful names. The photos and videos are totally unorganized. It’s hard to find what you really need. On the other hand, the sync may easily erase the photos and videos previously transferred to your device. The iTunes sync requires that you have a computer at hand as well.

Even if you’d like to use iTunes and cable to transfer photos and videos among your iDevices, what if your cable or computer is unavailable? In a party, what if you want to share photos with your friend? What if you want to send your baby’s photos from your iPhone to your wife’s iPad? This is what Wireless Transfer App is all about. It is really easy to use. You never need to use iTunes or cable again. As its name indicates, it only requires that you connect your devices to the same Wi-Fi network.

So how does it work? Let me take transferring photos and videos from iPhone to iPad using Wireless Transfer App as an example.

1. Download and install Wireless Transfer App on both devices. (iTunes Link)
2. Check whether both devices are connected to the same wifi network.
3. Run Wireless Transfer App on both devices.
4. Tap the “Receive” button on iPad and find the device name of iPhone.
5. Tap the device name of iPhone and get all iPhone photos and videos listed.
6. Select the photos and videos you want to transfer and start downloading them to iPad.
Done.

That’s really easy! Feel free to share photos and videos among iPad, iPhone and iPod devices without iTunes or cable using Wireless Transfer App.

Transfer photos from iPod touch to Mac via wifi

I have some recording i have made from my ipod touch using the camera. Now I want to take them off my ipod and drag them onto my mac and save them there. How do i do this?

The huge photo library on your iPod Touch may take much space of your device capacity. You need to spare more space for a lot more interesting and creative apps. You do not want to delete any of the great pictures. Why not transfer the photos from your iPod Touch to your Mac hard drive? On one hand, you have saved space for your iPod Touch. On the other hand, once you get your iPod photos over to your Mac, you can pick up one or several groups of photos and edit them into iMovie or even burn them in iDVD.

So what’s the best and eaiest way to get your iPod Touch photos transferred to Mac? The iOS app Wireless Transfer App comes to help. It is clever in that it takes full advantage of Wi-Fi network to transfer photos between iPod Touch and Mac. It only requires that you have your iPod and Mac connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Now let’s take a look at how it works to transfer photos from iPod Touch to Mac using Wireless Transfer App.

1. Download and install Wireless Transfer App to your iPod Touch

The iTunes Link

2. Make sure your iPod Touch and your Mac are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

3. Run Wireless Transfer App on your iPod Touch.

4. Find the http address at the bottom of the screen.

5. Open a web browser in your Mac and type the address exactly as that appears on your iPod Touch (including the colon and the following port number).

6. The browser will list all the photos and videos in your iPod Touch.

7. Select and download the photos you want to transfer to your Mac.

Source:
http://www.wirelesstransferapp.com/how-to-transfer-photos-from-ipod-touch-to-mac-via-wifi.html

Wireless Transfer App for iPad and iPhone Free for a Limited Time

Dislike using iTunes to sync photos and videos between your computer and your iPhone/iPad/iPod? Have several amazing photos shot with your iPhone and your friends want to get them over to their devices? All can be easily done with a handy iOS app named Wireless Transfer App. This app takes advantages of Wi-Fi connection to transfer photos and videos. You don’t need to use iTunes or cable. It only requires that the device and computer are in the same Wi-Fi network.

The good news is that Wireless Transfer App is now available for free for a limited time on the iTunes App Store.

Here is the iTunes preview link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wireless-transfer-app/id543119010?mt=8

It is well worth trying it out if you need to transfer photos and videos from or to your iPhone/iPad/iPod regularly.

Below is the screenshot of Wireless Transfer App for iPhone:

Different ways of adding music to iTunes for iPod and iPhone

The following article focuses on different ways of listening to music on iPod and iPhone. To enjoy music on iPod and iPhone, you first need to get the music in iPod/iPhone format onto iTunes library and then sync the music to your iPod/iPhone.

1. Buy music from iTunes Store for iPod/iPhone

To find and buy music from the iTunes Store, just click on the “iTunes Store” link under “Store” in the left column of iTunes. Once in, you’re greeted with the iTunes Store interface, with links on the left-hand side that take you to Music, Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, Audiobooks, and Podcasts. After you’ve chosen a song or album to buy, just click on the “Buy Song” or “Buy Album” button for that selection.

2. Import your CDs into iTunes for iPod/iPhone

If you own a few CDs, you can import them into iTunes for your iPod/iPhone. Since you’ve already spent money on this music, there’s no reason why you should have to buy it all over again just to get the songs into iTunes. Apple made it simple to rip a CD to your library.

By default, iTunes rips songs to AAC format, and although AAC is a very high-quality format, it isn’t as widely-supported as the ubiquitous MP3 format, which enjoys support from virtually every digital music player known to man, including iPod and iPhone. To ensure greater portability of your music (and prevent you from feeling locked into one product just because you’ve ripped all your music in one format), I suggest ripping your CDs as MP3s. To do so, go to Edit -> Preferences. In the General tab, click the Import Settings… button. In the pop up dialog window of Import Settings, select MP3 Encoder from the Import Using dropdown menu and Higher Quality (192 kbps) from the Setting dropdown.

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There are many other subscription music services you may already be subscribed to, like Rhapsody, Napster, and Zune Marketplace, which let you buy or rent tracks. But the songs that come from these stores use a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme that is incompatible with iTunes and the iPod/iPhone. In other words, these songs are protected from being played in software and hardware music players that don’t support their particular standard (just like non-iPod music players can’t play most music from the iTunes Music Store). There is software tool called TuneClone Audio Converter that claims to be able to remove DRM from Rhapsody, Napster and Zune Marketplace and convert the DRM protected music to MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA with a virtual CD drive. So if you want to transfer your Rhapsody/Napster/Zune music to iTunes for your iPod/iPhone, you mnay download this piece of software to help you get the music DRM removed and converted to MP3 for a try.

However, the online digital music store eMusic sells DRM-free MP3s, and there are many websites where you can download free and legal MP3s that don’t contain DRM and can be imported into the iPhone easily.

3. Import MP3s into iTunes for iPod/iPhone

Once you’ve downloaded MP3s onto your computer, it’s easy to import them into iTunes. First make a new playlist by going to the “File” menu and clicking “New Playlist” and naming it anything you like. Select that playlist in iTunes, then drag your MP3s from your hard drive into the right-hand pane. iTunes will start importing your music and populating the playlist with songs. After it’s done, you’re free to play back the songs or sync them to your iPod/iPhone just like all the rest of your library.

4. Import WMAs into iTunes for iPod/iPhone

Importing unprotected WMA files is just like importing MP3 files, but requires one additional step. With WMA files, iTunes will actually transcode the songs and change the format from WMA to whatever default audio encoder you’ve set in the iTunes Preferences. It’s not necessary to know the difference between WMAs, MP3s, and AACs, but you should know that when you import WMAs, your original files are untouched and a new file is created.

Note: For importing DRM protected WMA files into iTunes, you will need to remove the DRM first. I’ve found TuneClone Audio Converter can also be used to convert DRM protected WMA to MP3. There’s a tutorial on its website that details how to convert protected WMA to MP3 for iPod. I’ve followed it step by step to have a try. It worked great as a whole except that it didn’t preserve the music metadata very well though the tutorial offered a reluctant solution.

How to convert MP3 files to iTunes/iPod/iPhone m4b Audiobooks

I love to listen to audio books in the car while I commute 30-40 minutes each way to work. It is also a nice way to pass time in airports and during flights. I listen to music about 40% of the time and audio books the other 60%.

For music and audiobooks I use an iPod – I have an Alpine car radio which interfaces to the iPod through a digital cable. I use the radio’s buttons to control the iPod which is hidden in the glove box of my car so I can access dozens of audiobooks and thousands of MP3 songs from the car dashboard.

The following method works in Apple’s iTunes and can be played from iTunes directly or on either an iPod or iPhone by using Sync. This method, including software suggestions, is for Windows XP.

The m4b file format for iTunes Audiobooks

This all leads me to this discussion about how to create m4b Audiobooks (one word) from mp3 audio books (two words) files for iTunes. Apple has a special filetype for iTunes Audiobooks called m4b. The m4a (for music) and m4b (for audiobooks) use a compression codec called Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). Audiobooks in m4b format are one large audio file containing the entire book and have the ability to remember where you stopped listening – a bookmark! Even if you listen to other music tracks or even other audiobooks on the iPod/iPhone, when you go back to that book it will resume where you left off. This is much better than the old way I listened to books on CDs where if I stopped the CD I could resume it from the same spot only if I didn’t eject it to listen to something else. If I ejected the CD to listen to something else, I lost my place.

Since I get my audio books as mp3 fragments of the whole book, sometimes over 200 separate mp3 files for one book, I need to convert these to a single m4b file. I could purchase the books from Apple already in the single m4b format, but that is very limiting.

No, I need a way to convert multiple mp3s to one m4b. There are at least two ways to do the conversion.

1. mp3 to m4b Conversion – direct method

There is a free software tool for directly combining many mp3 files and converting the output to a single large m4b file. This tool is called, appropriately enough, MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter and I have used it successfully – sometimes. The problem is the output file sometimes has the wrong duration encoded in the file which causes various problems, including causing iTunes to crash. I say sometimes, but it is actually more like 75% of the time.

Not good.

2. mp3 to m4b Conversion – indirect mothod

As luck would have it, there is another, almost foolproof, way to make the conversion. Unfortunately, it takes several steps, although just a little longer it actual processing time.

I use another free tool called MergeMP3 to combine all the mp3 fragment files into a single mp3 file of the whole book. I’m careful to include the proper mp3 Tags like title, author, and album (same as title) in this step. Then I drag the finished full-book mp3 file into iTunes and it immediately adds the file to my library – but as music, not an audiobook. Next I locate this file in the iTunes music library under the artist (author) and Right-Click the title and select Create AAC Version.

iTunes now converts the mp3 to an AAC format called m4a. This takes a few minutes and is the longest part of the process. When complete, I locate the m4a file and change the extension to m4b. The file is the same, just a slightly different name. Finally, back to iTunes and under File I select Add a file to Library and locate the new m4b (b for book) file and it will be added to the audiobooks category. I can go back to the music category and delete the original mp3 file and also delete it from the folder on my computer.

Whew!

There are a lot more steps to do this manually, but I haven’t had a single file with errors using this method.

Source from
http://etxp.com/
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How to transfer Napster music playlist to iTunes playlist for iPod

Music purchased from Napster is under DRM protection, which stops customers from playing the downloaded music with other incompatible devices like Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune. If you don’t continue to pay, you won’t keep the music when the subscription expires. As we all know, iPod is one of the most popular and successful MP3 players. iPod owners can purchase various music songs from iTunes Store and listen to them with their iPods. However, if you prefer Napster and find some songs in Napster that are unavailable in iTunes store, yet you do want to enjoy these songs witn your new iPod, you are meeting the headache of Naspter being incompatible with iPod. So the following tutorial should be the solution.

The tools you will need:

TuneClone Audio Converter
Napster Software
iPod
iTunes Library

1. Make settings in TuneClone Audio Converter

Download TuneClone from www.tuneclone.com and install it. After launching TuneClone, click the “Settings” button. In the pop-up dialog of “Options”, you can specify the “Output Folder”, “Output Filenames”, “Output Format” (here we choose MP3), etc. for the output files.

Tip: You can get the output protection removed MP3 music folder by clicking the “Folder” button after the whole process.

2. Create a new playlist in Napster

Under “My Playlist”, click the “New Playlist” button to create a new playlist. Drag and drop to the playlist the music you are going to burn from your Napster Library.

3. Make CD burning settings in Napster

Click “Tools”, and select “Preference…” from the drop-down list. In the left panel of “Options”, navigate to “CD Options”. In the right panel of “CD Options”, choose TuneClone virtual CD drive as the preferred CD burner.

Note: Please tick “Burn CD Text” to preserve the metadata of the music.

4. Start to burn

Click the “Burn Disk” button to start the burning and encoding process.

After the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.

The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.

After you get the output MP3 files converted from the Napster music playlist in your Napster, you can now begin to transfer the MP3 files to your iPod with the sync of iTunes.

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How to Convert Protected WMA to MP3 for iPod

“The majority of my albums are in my Windows Media Player and I would like to transfer those albums to my iPod. Now I don’t know how to. All I know is that WMA is incompatible with Apple iPod. So how do I rescue my songs? I tried to use limewire to download free music but it is a mess.”

If you meet the same problem, you got the right place! The following tutorial details how to convert both protected and unprotected WMA (Windows Media Audio) music files to MP3 format for Apple iPod.

If the WMA files you are going to play on your iPod is unprotected, you just select and drag them into iTunes Library and they should be automatically converted to whatever iPod format you selected in iTunes preferences for importing.

If they are WMA files protected by DRM, it is not that easy. You need to use some software to remove the DRM from your WMA files and then convert the WMA music to the much more widely-supported MP3 format.
Note: As with any transcoding, the quality will go down. But if you’ve got a lot of protected WMA files you’d like to convert to MP3 files to get on your iPod, this solution would do the trick.

In this tutorial, I’d like to show how to remove DRM from WMA files and convert the protected WMA files to MP3 format using TuneClone Audio Converter. Let’s take a look at how it performs:

1. Make settings at TuneClone

Download TuneClone (fully compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista) and install it. After launching TuneClone, click the “Settings” button. In the pop-up dialog of “Options”, you can specify the “Output Folder”, “Output Filenames”, “Output Format” (here we choose MP3), etc. for the output files.
Tip: You can get the output protection removed MP3 music folder by clicking the “Folder” button after the whole process.

2. Burning at Windows Media Player(WMP 11)

Create a new playlist and drag into it the WMA files you are going to play on your iPod. After that, click the “Burn” button and select “Audio CD” from the drop-down list. On the right panel of “CD Drive”, click “Next Drive” to locate the CD drive to TuneClone’s Virtual CD Burner.

Note: If you are unsure whether TuneClone’s Virtual CD burner is successfully installed or where it is installed, please refer to the bottom left corner of TuneClone:

Then, drag the playlist you created just now to the “Burn List” and click the “Start Burn” button to start burning the playlist. While the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the WMA playlist to MP3 files. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.
Note: If you get the output files formatted as 01-1.mp3, 01-2.mp3, etc., please click the output MP3 songs in the manager screen and drag the counterpart original WMA songs to the “Track Info” panel of TuneClone one by one. The information about the artist, album, title, etc. will be changed accordingly. It would be a time-consuming process if you are burning a big collection of WMA music. However, since Windows Media Player 11 doesn’t support CD-text burning, this seems to be the only way to get the information back.

After you get the output MP3 files converted from the WMA playlist in your Windows Media Player, you can now begin to transfer the MP3 files to your iPod with the sync of iTunes.

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Free download music for iPod – what you need to know

by Davion W

Looking for free music to download for iPod? Well, you definitely are not alone. In a single day, there can easily be thousands of people like you searching online for places where they can download free music for their iPods.

Millions of these MP3 players have been sold worldwide. The Apple device is iconic and synonymous with MP3 player. Since the community of users is huge, it is natural that people want to find free music to download for iPod. After all, not every fanatic can afford to pay $0.99 per song transfer. Call it cheap but the fact is, the device can store thousands of songs and it can be quite costly. Pay attention to the following tips and you will be able to find cheap quality music.

1. File Format

Before you download anything, make sure that the website actually provides the music in the following iPod-supported formats – AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.

Of course, you can always go to another site with other file formats but you will then need to use a file format conversion application to convert the songs. It can prove to be an expensive and time-consuming exercise.

2. Music Genre

Another thing you might want to check is the kind of music they provide. Not every of such free sites offer a wide range of genres. Imagine if you can find one that comes with Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Dance, Children’s Music, Electronic, Folk, Hip-Hop/Rap, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtrack and Vocals. Well, there are.

3. Site Security

This requires due diligence on your part. Make sure that the site is a secured one. We have heard enough stories about malware infiltration and virus attacks when downloading files online. Stick with the established websites like iCompositions, EMOL and Macidol and it should be fine. They do provide some quality songs from underground band groups.

As with any kind of file transfer online, there are risks involved when you find free music to download for iPod. As an added layer of PC protection, consider installing anti-virus on your PC.

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