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iamnotyou reviewed v1.8 on May 9, 2010

YamiPod works great on my older Nano but, sadly, it lacks ability to sync on the newest iPods such as the Touch. I find it easy to use and small in disk space required. There needs to be a better FAQ/help page but the info is there if you look for it. That said, there is a Linux version I also use on an old computer running Debian so it gives me the same interface with either OS.

Yami works as advertised (on the models it says it supports). Here's hoping that a newer version will soon sync with the latest iPods.

thealanberman reviewed v1.7 on Nov 19, 2007

For all you whiners out there, this isn't designed to be your primary media player. It's not gonna have every stupid bell and whistle that iTunes has. It's a simple, portable, well written app that allows you to have all of the BASIC functionality of iTunes and take it with you ON YOUR IPOD. Let's see Winamp or iTunes or whatever other media player app do that.

CGA reviewed v1.7 on Nov 19, 2007

Tried it on booth Vista and XP, very crash prone and the interface is not very user friendly. I agree with Uecic, Winamp has the program to use if you want easy Ipod management.

uecic reviewed v1.7 Beta 3 on Nov 13, 2007

I tried it, but I stay with Winamp 5.5 & ml_ipod 3.02 plug-in the best ipod manager according to me. You can do anything you want with your ipod (music,videos,photos, podcast...) from your HDD or to your HDD. Really simple and it works with Vista and all ipods (except ipodTouch). Winamp rules.

Adrian79 reviewed v1.7 Beta 3 on Nov 7, 2007

crashes on vista.. worthless ugly interface, itunes still best choice... i'm not a fanboy of apple or itunes, just stating the facts!

does this add album art automatically like itunes?..NO

does this add photos?... NO

does this add videopodcast?...NO

...this needs ALOT of work

dogdivine reviewed v1.7 Beta 3 on Nov 7, 2007

anyone knows it works whith iPod toch????

anomoly reviewed v1.7 Beta 2 on Nov 1, 2007

I use this and anapod simply for the occasional times I get jerked off with someone else's ipod.
ipod and itunes can KMA-I wouldn't be caught dead with either one.

Reverb reviewed v1.7 Beta 2 on Nov 1, 2007

Awesome little program - Now my IPOD is truly portable! I can connect it to any machine without having to install Itunes or any other bloated software package which is truly what kept my from buying an IPod in the first place. My old Insignia MP3 player came with some Itunes-like software but it was an OPTIONAL install - if you didn't like it you could just copy music/videos to the player using explorer or your favorite filemanager. All music players should be like that instead of forcing to install proprietary drivers and music management software. I'm not bashing ITunes I have friends that swear by it but then they are noobs.

If you're using Vista you're stuck with Itunes until YamiPod is updated for that OS.

Adrian79 reviewed v1.7 Beta 2 on Oct 31, 2007

crashes on vista.. worthless ugly interface, itunes still best choice... i'm not a fanboy of apple or itunes, just stating the facts!

does this add album art automatically like itunes?

does this add photos?

...this needs ALOT of work

alanpalmer reviewed v1.7 Beta 2 on Oct 31, 2007

Still no sign of support for Vista. Until that happens I won't waste my time downloading it again.

arjesus reviewed v1.7 Beta 1 on Oct 20, 2007

very handy app of you use your ipod a lot in others computer!

philosopher_dog reviewed v1.7 Beta 1 on Oct 16, 2007

Finally support for the latest Ipods for all the w2k users who were left in the dust by Apple!

filobeddo reviewed v1.6 on Aug 7, 2007

If people commenting above are having issues with crashing then it would be best to send info of the specifics to the author (this is BETA news after all....).
I think this is a really good little app. I dont have iTunes installed .. I have Yamipod on my Nano and run it directly from that.. How nice is that, being able to plug my ipod in where I go an be able to mange my tunes... Bravo the author.

Adrian79 reviewed v1.6 on Aug 6, 2007

crashes on vista.. worthless ugly interface, itunes still best choice... i'm not a fanboy of apple or itunes, just stating the facts!

does this add album art automatically like itunes?

does this add photos?

...this needs ALOT of work

Captain Hook reviewed v1.4 on Jun 17, 2007

YamiPod 1.4 is working flawless without iTunes.
I tried it in a computer there iTunes has never been installed. It does a good job.

About Floola. It is also very good AND it can add Album Art. Some minor problem with that, but it will be fixed. However, the last version B51 thought that I had iTunes running on the computer with iTunes. It is NOT running there. Without iTunes computer, no problems.

About Sharepod. I had some problems with that one. It gave me 8 playlists from the one single playlist. However, the restore function worked flawless.

All these 3 programs can run directly inside your iPod. No need to install in your friends computers.
And more... No bloatware!

enrom reviewed v1.4 on Jun 17, 2007

In my computer with my settings, dont work. Crash and crash and crash. Floola is the same: dont work. iTunes is bad but these are worst.
Ah, casi me olvido: La interfaz de ambos es horrible.

Alpha258 reviewed v1.4 on Jun 17, 2007

I agree that foola is probably a better product but YamiPod still does a good job. There seems to be a bit of confusion about whether iTunes is needed or not for YamiPod to work. Can somebody state whether it is needed or not and back it up with proof. eg... a link to a website.
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@wizard1786 : Does "100% CLEAN" Softpedia Award" mean anything to you? Let me explain in case you don't understand what "100% CLEAN means"... This means it has no spyware, no viruses, no adware, no malware of any kind!!! There is no point in writing a review unless you have something more than air in your head.

m00m00 reviewed v1.4 on Jun 17, 2007

Used to be an alternative. But without I-Tunes it is pretty much useless. I have found http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/ and this ROCKS! Freeware too and can even work with the ipod WITHOUT I-tunes ever having been installed. Give FLOOLA a try, you will then see why this scores a 3 from me.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.4 on Jun 17, 2007

Anything is better than iTunes.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v1.0.3 Beta on Mar 12, 2007

Not perfect, but definitely working better than last time.
Worth a 4, and I'm looking forward to give it a 5 :)

kalonji reviewed v1.0.2 on Mar 1, 2007

Mate, this isn't true.
I-Tunes is not neccessary, you just need an initialized iPOD.

darkpepe reviewed v1.0.2 Beta 2 on Feb 4, 2007

Doesn't work on computers where iTunes is not installed :(

brusco reviewed v1.0.2 Beta 2 on Feb 2, 2007

@wizard1786

You are obviously a dimwit and are using a rubbish antivirus package that spits out false positives. Low intelligence beginners like yourself should google this situation before making these allegations (e.g. "he is a crook"). If you did you would see that you are an idiot along with all the others that use your substandard anti virus software.

Prospero424 reviewed v1.0.2 Beta 2 on Feb 2, 2007

Best interface of its kind that I've seen.

Does it work with h.264 mp4 videos, yet?

emrldjetta reviewed v1.0.2 Beta 2 on Feb 1, 2007

Very nice program. I have used it on my 3G ipod for about a year and never have had a prob with it. Does exactly what you want it to, move music off and on to your ipod without needing itunes. Also plays music, and supports drag and drop. Very light and easy to use. Go ahead and try it, it really works well.

jon8rfc reviewed v1.0.2 Beta 2 on Feb 1, 2007

Excellent program, as always.

Beware of the computer-illiterate, posting false claims of virus infection. Betanews will pull the file if it's infected--they will find a virus faster than a user since they don't want to get a bad reputation.

Also, I can prove that the person below me is WRONG because you can just do a google search and find HOARDS of people claiming virus infection on hoards of different programs--those people are already infected, and/or their antivirus software is providing false positives, which is common when they're already infected (because their scanner is likely to be infected) or use a junky virus scanner.

wizard1786 reviewed v1.0.1 on Dec 23, 2006

BEWARE OF YAMIPOD!
It carries a virus package keylogger.n My virus scanner just removed it today Unable to get a respose from Yamipod authur (not surprisiing) he appears to be a crook!

Mirrebex reviewed v1.0 RC1 on Oct 27, 2006

Sorry about that.. yamipod is muuuuch better than any other itunes alternative.. ;)

stopbuggingme reviewed v0.99.6 Beta 2 on Sep 30, 2006

This program has worked great for me. It's the best program that I have found that lets me take music from my iPod and transfer it to other computer. It has worked great every time. The fact that you can run it off your iPod means that you don't have to install iTunes on every computer you use it on.

Mirrebex reviewed v0.99.6 Beta 2 on Sep 28, 2006

Try EphPod.. works like a charm.. ;)

batham reviewed v0.99.6 Beta 2 on Sep 28, 2006

Does it work with any MP3 players or just IPOD.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v0.99.5 on Sep 10, 2006

This does not need an install and consists of a single file, which I like.
In addition, it works perfectly for me (using an iPod Shuffle), and doesn't need iTunes as opposed to what has been said said below.
I can't think of anything bad to say as off now.
*EDIT* Right, so I spoke too soon and I was wrong. After unplugging the iPod, read a couple of songs, and plug it back in, the software complained about a corrupted playlist and quits. Well, I didn't do ANYTHING since last time apart from reading songs. So I formatted the Shuffle, but then YamiPod doesn't recognise it anymore. Back to the drawing board I'm afraid, I'm disappointed :( And back to vPod for me (not as good as, but it's small, and more importantly, it works!).

jon8rfc reviewed v0.99.4 Beta 3 on Aug 29, 2006

Excellent program. Works very well and can run directly off the ipod!

Yamipod DOES NOT require itunes in any way whatsoever; that is an incorrect statement made by a novice computer user. If you're even a little bit tech-savvy, you'll find, like me, that you can simply add a folder called "itunes" within the "ipod_control" folder.

ITUNES IS NOT NEEDED AT ALL, EVER--that is a false statement made by a novice user!

Keep it up Tomas!

heybirder reviewed v0.99.4 Beta 2 on Aug 7, 2006

I tried running this on my work PC to connect to my iPod and I got an obscure error code. After tracing it down on their forums the solution is to install iTunes first. If I need iTunes installed on my PC to get YamiPod to work, why bother.

BoNeLeSS reviewed v0.99.3 on Jun 6, 2006

"your firmware is unsuported, quitting..."

Elanessé reviewed v0.98 on Apr 22, 2006

F*cked up tool. First I had to deactivate iTunes, then I had to unplug and plugin my iPod Shuffle several times. When it finally recognized my iPod, it said after a few seconds again that my iPod wasn't plugged in.

No, thanks. Never again.

forgie reviewed v0.94 on Mar 10, 2006

sure it lacks some features that say Anapod has like the ability to copy videos to your iPod, but YamiPod is FREE and FREE is a very good price and my reason for not just giving this a 4, but instead a 5. Without developers like this one we'd all be doomed to forking out cash just to avoid the bloated iTunes.

skonrad reviewed v0.92.1 on Feb 13, 2006

Yes,

It works with an Ipod shuffle. It's a good program, but it's missing a feature that I am missing dearly to use it with my shuffle: Auto fill. It's great to just plugin the Shuffle and have it filled with random songs by iTunes. I could not figure out whether that is possible with Yamipod.

jon8rfc reviewed v0.91.1 on Jan 29, 2006

Marvelous! Tomas keeps in touch with his userbase very well and always listens to concerns. If there happens to be a problem, he fixes it ASAP!

fourte3n reviewed v0.91 on Jan 23, 2006

works a treat for me. never had the issues of others here and doesnt seem slow on my 1.7ghz. good work!

siscopop reviewed v0.90 on Jan 13, 2006

Just wondering if i can use it with my ipod shuffle ??

Kartun_355 reviewed v0.90 on Jan 9, 2006

This prog works, it is a fact. It works really slow, this is other fact. In a few words this program is not suitable for everyday use for a couple of reasons: no support at all(I mean that developer ignores e-mails, don't answer them and bugs are ofter are not got fixed after reporting ...) In addition this program can't operate with tags in national languages that aren't unicoded, periodically it freases and can't be closed even with taskManager, mp3player works not on all machines, and ... AND it slow as hell on my AMD1900+ ... I suggest you to try AnapodExplorer, of course it cost some money, but you could give it a chance ...

beta_animal reviewed v0.87 on Nov 21, 2005

An excellent idea, but....

...it corrupted my iPod. I tried to add songs to the library using YamiPod instead of iTunes and it screwed the file system. I had to reformat the iPod and refill it from scratch. I used iTunes this time!

YamiPod is good for copying music from your iPod, but I prefer Sharepod - smaller and better, uses the same single exe file approach. No install needed.

KayNine reviewed v0.84 Beta on Oct 26, 2005

...and best of all: no installation needed! So I just have the Windows, Mac OS X _and_ Linux version always stored on my iPod, just in case I'm at a friends or at the office and need to up- or download some tracks.

ejanzzen reviewed v0.83 Beta 4 on Sep 15, 2005

Excellent, Program worth donating ....

penguinfanitic reviewed v0.80 on Apr 2, 2005

What a great program can do everything thing quicker and easier then I Tunes. Haven't had a problem yet.

jon8rfc reviewed v0.56 on Jan 27, 2005

Fast detection and easy to use. I have uninstalled iTunes and Quicktime and couldn't be happier!

colbyrichison reviewed v0.47 Beta on Dec 6, 2004

Pretty stable, does what it's supposed to do. No installed due to the fact that it's almost a one time use program. Good work so far!