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Hate iTunes? Want an iPod Anyways? Try Dopisp!

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I don’t know about you, but I hate iTunes. And I mean HATE. I find it so unfriendly, so slow — in my books, it’s an absolute night­mare. But that hasn’t stopped me from want­ing an iPod. As much as I hate to admit it there’s still noth­ing bet­ter out there than Apple’s lit­tle white pocket pal. Thanks to MGTEK there’s finally some hope for folks like me. So if you’re putting an iPod in some­ones stock­ing this year, why not tell them about Dop­sip? It’s a Win­dows Media Player plug-in that will allow WMP11 to rec­og­nize the iPod just like it would any other portable music play­ing device.

Dopisp does have one lim­i­ta­tion though, and depend­ing on how you acquire your music it might be a real stick in the mud. Dop­sip can’t sync any music with DRM pro­tec­tion, which means that if you’ve pur­chased music from the iTunes Store you won’t be able to sync it through Dopisp.

If you’re inter­ested in Dop­sip, I’d sug­gest get­ting it right away. It’s not avail­able for pur­chase yet, but it is avail­able for free as a two month eval­u­a­tion copy. Give it a shot and let us know what you think!

Click here to visit the Dopisp site and down­load the free eval­u­a­tion copy.

45 Responses to “Hate iTunes? Want an iPod Anyways? Try Dopisp!”

  1. anson

    thank you so much!! i hate iTunes too!!!! now that i can have an alter­na­tive, thank you!

  2. mayotruk

    First of all, say­ing iTunes is an “absolute night­mare” shows absolute igno­rance. If you are seri­ously say­ing that Win­dows Media player is the great alter­na­tive, then there may be no point in even try­ing to con­vince you otherwise-you could already been brain­washed. iTunes is no slower than any­thing else out there, has a VERY easy to use inter­face and it han­dles all pop­u­lar music for­mats aside from Win­dows Media (which is a crap alter­na­tive any­way). As for DRM, while iTunes is resricted to its own pro­tected AAC, at least Apple sup­ports its own stan­dards on the iPod-music pur­chased at Microsoft’s music store with “plays for sure” DRM is not even sup­ported on its own Zune! Using the M$ player and sup­port­ing their DRM is basi­cally feed­ing into the already too pow­er­ful monop­oly. Boooooo Microsoft.

  3. dysonlu

    @mayotruk: I usu­ally try to avoid call­ing peo­ple “fan­boy” because it’s an over-used word and often mis-used but you my friend is a poor Apple fan­boy (and sur­prise sur­prise, MS hater). Who the f*** are you to ques­tion some­one else’s opin­ion and call him/her igno­rant just because that opin­ion didn’t align with your own??? Did it occur to you that they might have had expe­ri­ences on the sub­ject that dif­fer from yours? Oh and guess what, if every­one had to share your opin­ion, then Apple would have had a “too power monop­oly” too! Boooooo fanboyism.

  4. ceci

    I agree that iTunes is not very user-friendly. The way that they sort out the playlist is hard to under­stand. If you sort by artist, the ones with mul­ti­ple artists will be screwed. If you sort by album, it is so dif­fi­cult to find the artist you want.

    Every­one has their own opin­ion, I don’t think you can call oth­ers igno­rant. I mean, if every­one likes the same prod­uct, then there will be only ONE monop­oly and no other alter­na­tives. The rea­son for all these com­pany to sur­vive is because they all have their own supporters.

  6. jimmycanuck

    Absolutely — just fol­low the link and you should see where you need to click to down­load the eval­u­a­tion copy. :)

  8. Greg

    I’m not a big iTunes fan, altough I have used it. While try­ing dif­fer­ent media play­ers, I have finally set­tled on wmp11. I find it the eas­est to use and visu­ally apealling. Up until a month or so ago I was using xPlay to sync my iPod’s with wmp, but this pro­gram is no avail­able in Vista (yet). Des­per­ate to find some­thing to sync wmp11 with I stum­bled upon dopisp. I must say, that I will not be buy­ing the new ver­sion of xPlay. I love this pro­gram very easy with very lit­tle over­head. Thanks MGTEK

  9. Charles A

    I couldn’t agree more that i tunes is a pain in the ass. I have installed the dopisp plug in but still cant sync my i pod. The error mes­sage says that I need to use the MP3 for­mat or enable on the fly encod­ing to MP3 in MGTEK dopisp. Please Help.

  10. Canek

    I hate itunes!!! I have two dif­fer­ent ipods, I’ve been using itunes because it was the only option for the ipod. I upgrade my Dell Com­puter with RAID0 with Win­dows Vista and that is when all the prob­lems began. itunes destroyed all my library and cre­ated the file itunes Library (Dam­aged) I can’t access my videos or sync my ipods, I lost all my playslits that I spent hours and days orginiz­ing and some­times I got the blue screen of hor­ror. I was read­ing some reviews and itunes is not com­pat­i­ble 100% with Vista and is caus­ing lots of prob­lems. I HATE ITUNES. Thanks MGTEK you save my live and time.

  11. sandra

    hi, I tried dopisp and it seems to work real fine, I only have one ques­tion to decide me to buy the reg­is­tered ver­sion, is it pos­si­ble to sync also videos and pic­tures to a video ipod? I did well with music files but I can’t sync videos/pictures
    Thanks for any help

  12. Katie

    I also HATE itunes. It’s like a virus. I long for the days when I could just drag and drop files directly onto my mp3 player. I only have an ipod because it was a gift. Itunes causes me so much grief, I har­dle ever use my ipod. The pro­gram starts up quickly enough, but then it tells me my ipod isn’t in sync, so I ulti­mately have to agree for it to erase every­thing on my ipod so that the two libraries can be in sync. Awe­some. Then it has to update some­thing for what­ever rea­son. Great. Then that’s not all. New songs don’t appear in the library auto­mat­i­cally, even though the pro­gram is sup­pos­edly mon­i­tor­ing cer­tain fold­ers. So once I’ve drawn it’s atten­tion to the new files, it doesn’t just add them to the list, it imports them. FANTASTIC. Oh wait, and what is it doing now? Oh yes, lets down­load cover art, because I really need that. And don’t try unin­stalling itunes, because a month or even a week later you’ll find it back again, hav­ing piggy backed unno­ticed on some other pro­gram you installed. An hour after the ordeal began, I can put music on my lit­tle white box of insan­ity and enjoy.

    I feel a lot bet­ter now, and so glad I’ve come across dopisp. Now I just have to get hyp­no­tised so I won’t remem­ber hav­ing ever had to use itunes.

  13. Unk

    Just got an 80gb classic…I hate itunes.
    Can I move mp3’s in & out of the pod with this soft­ware.
    Tried Ana­pod but it crashed the ipod & they refuse email sup­port.
    Just want it to work like my old zen player.

    Unk

  14. Katrina

    Has any­one had trou­ble get­ting the dop­sit plug in to work? I tried it on my 5.5 gen­er­a­tion ipod, and every­thing loaded per­fectly… I just can’t get the music to actu­ally play. It just scrolls through my entire inven­tory of music, then defaults back to a prior menu.

    I’ve writ­ten the com­pany, but no word yet. Any­one able to help? Any­one? anyone…

  15. Peter

    @ Unk

    I almost cried when I read your post.

    I have/had a Zen Vision:M but lost it to a gym acci­dent (I dropped it on a tread­mill). It worked a dream with WMP 11, but the new Zens don’t have hard-drive ver­sions. So I bought an iPod Clas­sic 80 gig to replace it, see­ing that it would work with WMP using dopsip.

    But noth­ing will ever replace the ‘drag and drop’ free­dom of the good ol’ days.

    R.I.P. lit­tle bud, I’ll never for­get ya.

    Peter

  16. tattoodprincess

    I had a MAJOR prob­lem with iTunes at first, but I got used to it. I had another MP3 player, which worked the oppo­site way of the iPod when it came to synch­ing files. I dont find it too bad now. You just have to fig­ure out how to manip­u­late it the right way. I’m now try­ing to fig­ure out how to con­vert video files into a for­mat for my iPod, so if any­one knows a good pro­gram, I would DEFINETLY appre­ci­ate it.
    I tell you what though, I was SO happy when I found out that I dont have to buy music through iTunes to put on it lolz You can down­load through a P2P pro­gram like Limewire, put it in your doc­u­ments, drag to a folder then move it onto iTunes. I know its a lit­tle more work, but I am most definetly a label snob and HAD to have an iPod. I’m lucky and work at Wal Mart so I saved 10% with my employee card, so I pretty much saved the tax.

  17. DrGonzo

    A mil­lion times thank you! iTunes was really begin­ing to take the shine of my lovely new iPod, they may be the best look­ing peice of kit out there but apple really has its cus­tomers in a choke hold. I wanted the free­dom to trans­fere music in both direc­tions and to view the con­tents of my iPod from my com­puter, imag­ine my shock that you can­not do these sim­ple things i took for granted with my old MP3 player. I shall be down­load­ing dopisp and remov­ing all trace of itunes from my machine, the night­mare is over!

  18. Rodriguez

    Totally agreed, I bought Ipod cause of the stu­pid frenzy over it. Yea, I suck now. I didn’t know about Itunes and when I found out about it, I also found out I SPENT 200 dol­lars on an effin machine that comes with a pro­gram that shuts down Vista when­ever it uploads. Yea, also bought a vista. DAMN THESE UPDATES! they’re slower than AOL! Acu­tally I don’t have aol any­more, so I don’t know about that just yet.

  19. Dave

    Thank you so much!! Have always hated updat­ing my ipod because of Itunes and its com­plete inabil­ity to just do what you have asked it to do. Spent about 2 hours last night try­ing to add a few new albums and it brings the whole PC to a stand still (and this is not a crappy old PC!) while it adds it to its library. Have always hated the way despite telling it where my music is kept (on a NAS drive) it always revert­ing back to the C drive every time I load it and not see­ing new music on the network.

    Was a bit of a bug­ger set­ting this up at first but now it work­ing like a dream!

    Plus I no longer have to keep two media libraries going (one for tunes and one for the Box)

  20. dave

    I love ipod …I hate i tunes and all about it…Going to buy sam­sung yp-p2 .Nice and GREAT support…I will never ever buy Apple prod­uct ever!!!Remember AOL.…they do busi­ness same way as Apple…

  22. Ingrid

    I have an ipod nano, it was work­ing fine with itunes, But i bought another ipod nano, but the square one cause i wanted a dif­fer­ent color, when i plugged it in, it said my new ipod isnt com­patile with my cur­rent ver­sion of itunes which was the 7th ver­sion. so i upgraded to the 8th ver­sion.. and since then itunes doesnt fuhreakin work!!! im so annoyed!! i cant use my ipod.. :( (

  23. sabrina roberts

    I just got my first i pod. Its a sec­ond gen i pod touch and I just love its fea­tures. How­ever it is my first and last i pod. I hate i tunes and since I never used it I was shocked to find that i couldnt auto­mat­i­cally update my song list or every­time i put a new song into it that i would be eras­ing all the other song that i put in it. I tunes sucks but i pod touch is awsome!. I am going back to win­dows based mp3 play­ers and if there is a touch mp3 player that win­dows is putting out i would be the first to buy it.

  24. BooRadley

    I just got a new Ipod Touch as well. It is an absolutely amaz­ing lit­tle piece of tech­nol­ogy. How­ever, my music library is very large (Just under 1TB) and Itunes is absolutely worth­less for man­ag­ing it. It is slower than molasses and locks up con­stantly. I tried brows­ing the library with Win­dows Media Player, and it is much bet­ter. I can’t wait to try dopisp with Win­dows Media Player.

  25. fizz

    You peo­ple need help. There is noth­ing bet­ter than itunes out there for man­ag­ing your music. Even if it crashes you can quit n open it again but you cant do that on win­dows media player..! You need to restart your pc but hey its ur time so if u wana waste it on wmp go do it!

  27. theevilleprechaunman

    i hate ipods theyre so annoy­ing and if u dont have an ipod u get treated like a reject, and if u speak out against them u instantly get bom­barded with lots of hate. ipods are like every other MP£ player out there i see noth­ing spe­cial about them, in fact i reckon theyre to limted at least with zens u can drag and drop and also get a pro­gram thts user freindly oh well ipods suck. Macs are only good for mak­ing media not play­ing it

  28. JimmyJ

    I don’t under­stand why iTunes even exists except as a tether lock-in to Apple’s prod­ucts. What could be sim­pler then the orig­i­nal MP3 play­ers that just copied from your hard drive directly to an MP3 player? Why have some mas­sive piece of bloat­ware step into the process, slow down your com­puter, make it crash, dupli­cate all of your music and all to com­pli­cate a sim­ple task.

    The only rea­son to replace it is because you have to have some soft­ware to work with iPods and iPhones and iTunes is pretty bad. Ide­ally it would be a sim­ple disk to disk trans­fer and ytou could use WinAmp to play and for playlists on the PC.

  29. Spevia

    I too use SHAREPOD.…so much bet­ter than itunes and can be accessed via your ipod on any com­puter u plug it in to

  30. James Black

    I can­not begin to describe what debil­i­tat­ing rub­bish iTunes is. I pur­chased an iPod Clas­sic, and was rail­roaded through the iTunes web­site to giv­ing my credit card details even BEFORE i had made a pur­chase. Excuse me, but that is just uneth­i­cal. Suf­fice to say i didn’t hand any details through, but attempted to use iTunes nonethe­less — and what a wake-up call that was. I have never expe­ri­enced more headaches and heartaches from this extremely unfriendly and unscrupu­lous web­site and soft­ware. I have used many soft­ware appli­ca­tions in my time and thought i would give iTunes a fair go. What a waste of time, money and patience. Com­par­ing iTunes to Vista Win­dows Media player is like com­par­ing a mag­got rid­dled dog turd to a solid gold ingot. Thank god for DOPISP!!

  31. qwe

    I HATE this CRAP! I got a 80gb ipod clas­sic and this is a WORST mp3 player in the world! I wish hack­ers can hack this feck­ing ipod OS.

  32. Mister Pigg

    @mayotruk iTunes is pretty much a night­mare for me too, it screws up my tag­ging and makes my entire com­puter freeze after 10 min­utes of use. Win­dows media player is barely bet­ter, but still better.

    I vastly pre­fer foo­bar 2000.

  35. Lill

    This is a very impres­sive blog and some good ideas in your post. I’ll be back. Thanks for the good con­tent. By the way, why not list­ing your blog in our E-Commerce Direc­tory and get a back link from us?

  36. Lobner

    Man, now I’m just get­ting so tired of hear­ing peo­ple bitch about the bailout. The fact is that if peo­ple were really upset, they would take all theirt money out of the banks and FORCE them to fail, or run up a huge debt and just refuse to pay. Some kind of civil dis­obe­di­ence is clearly called for here, is all I am say­ing, and if big bank­ing is destroyed in the process, it’s about time. http://zi.ma/c7bb80

  39. Nettie

    I hate Itunes too! So much so that I only force myself to update my music on my ipod once every 6 months or so. It’s so hor­ri­ble! I’ll have to check out this. Thanks a bunch! :)

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