TheOfficeMaven
10-22-2005, 01:48 AM
Hi All,
I've just finished writing a Windows-based add-in for iTunes that will allow you to synchronize all of the music and videos you have stored in iTunes with your Walkman phone.
The program is designed to work with all of the new SE Walkman phones (W800, W600, W550, etc.) but it will still work with the K750, S700, etc. In fact, it should work with virtually any music player (phone or not) that can act as a Mass Storage Device (MSD).
iWalkman runs as a small icon in your system tray and you simply right-mouse-click on it to bring up the program's main popup menu:
http://www.i-Walkman.com/graphics/iWalkman%20Popup.jpg
What Can iWalkman Do?
In my opinion, iTunes is one of the best music organizers on the market today. Unfortunately, iTunes doesn’t directly support the synchronizing of your music with a Mass Storage Device (MSD). This means that there is no way of synchronizing your Sony Ericsson Walkman phone with the music you have stored in iTunes.
Fortunately, iWalkman comes to the rescue and resolves this problem for you.
With iWalkman, you can synchronize your Walkman phone with iTunes just as if it were a virtual iPod® or iTunes Mobile Phone (i.e. ROKR)!
Besides just being able to copy music from iTunes to your Walkman phone (or MSD), iWalkman has a whole bounty of other great features which allow you to:
· Synchronize both music AND videos.
· Specify the exact location on your MSD where your music and video files are to be stored.
· Specify how much of the disk space available on your MSD you want to use for music and video storage.
· Properly arrange and name your music and videos so as to take full advantage of the Walkman player’s Artists, Tracks, and Videos organization.
· Organize songs that are part of a compilation album by the album’s title instead of separating them all out by their individual artists.
· Organize your music by a multitude of categories such as playlist, genre, artist, album, artist & album, year, rating, composer, and grouping.
· Copy audio files to your MSD in a random order until all of the available free space on your MSD is filled up.
· Select exactly which iTunes playlists you want to synchronize.
· Prioritize the order in which your playlists are synchronized.
· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files into your desired audio format (MPEG/MP3 or AAC/M4A).
· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files to match your desired bit rate level.
· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files to match your desired sample rate level.
Here's a screen shot of iWalkman's Preferences dialog box where you control exactly how the program works:
http://www.i-Walkman.com/graphics/iWalkman%20Preferences.jpg
You can download a free 21-day trial version of the program from my web site here:
http://www.i-Walkman.com
I hope that you guys find it as useful as I have. :cool:
-- Mike Craven (The Office Maven)
I've just finished writing a Windows-based add-in for iTunes that will allow you to synchronize all of the music and videos you have stored in iTunes with your Walkman phone.
The program is designed to work with all of the new SE Walkman phones (W800, W600, W550, etc.) but it will still work with the K750, S700, etc. In fact, it should work with virtually any music player (phone or not) that can act as a Mass Storage Device (MSD).
iWalkman runs as a small icon in your system tray and you simply right-mouse-click on it to bring up the program's main popup menu:
http://www.i-Walkman.com/graphics/iWalkman%20Popup.jpg
What Can iWalkman Do?
In my opinion, iTunes is one of the best music organizers on the market today. Unfortunately, iTunes doesn’t directly support the synchronizing of your music with a Mass Storage Device (MSD). This means that there is no way of synchronizing your Sony Ericsson Walkman phone with the music you have stored in iTunes.
Fortunately, iWalkman comes to the rescue and resolves this problem for you.
With iWalkman, you can synchronize your Walkman phone with iTunes just as if it were a virtual iPod® or iTunes Mobile Phone (i.e. ROKR)!
Besides just being able to copy music from iTunes to your Walkman phone (or MSD), iWalkman has a whole bounty of other great features which allow you to:
· Synchronize both music AND videos.
· Specify the exact location on your MSD where your music and video files are to be stored.
· Specify how much of the disk space available on your MSD you want to use for music and video storage.
· Properly arrange and name your music and videos so as to take full advantage of the Walkman player’s Artists, Tracks, and Videos organization.
· Organize songs that are part of a compilation album by the album’s title instead of separating them all out by their individual artists.
· Organize your music by a multitude of categories such as playlist, genre, artist, album, artist & album, year, rating, composer, and grouping.
· Copy audio files to your MSD in a random order until all of the available free space on your MSD is filled up.
· Select exactly which iTunes playlists you want to synchronize.
· Prioritize the order in which your playlists are synchronized.
· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files into your desired audio format (MPEG/MP3 or AAC/M4A).
· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files to match your desired bit rate level.
· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files to match your desired sample rate level.
Here's a screen shot of iWalkman's Preferences dialog box where you control exactly how the program works:
http://www.i-Walkman.com/graphics/iWalkman%20Preferences.jpg
You can download a free 21-day trial version of the program from my web site here:
http://www.i-Walkman.com
I hope that you guys find it as useful as I have. :cool:
-- Mike Craven (The Office Maven)