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Exporting iTunes playlists to non-iPods? - Ask DLS
by Jason Clarke Jan 11th 2007
A little over a year ago I wrote a post entitled How to Fix iTunes. One of the utilities I pointed to in that article is called idleTunes, and I used it to keep my iTunes library tuned up, and to export playlists of podcasts to my non-iPod MP3 player. While I still love idleTunes, it stopped working with iTunes back when Apple updated to iTunes version 6, and has not been updated since last summer. So, I finally went looking for a suitable replacement, but I'm having very little luck. The only utility I can find that is supposed to do what I'm looking to do is called iTunes Agent, and unfortunately for me it does not seem to want to play nicely on my computer. Once started, it takes over 30 seconds to respond to any command, and has become totally unusable to me. I'm fully willing to consider the fact that the problem could be my PC, given the number of downloads I test. But a reinstallation is not on the cards right now, considering that otherwise my system is working fine. So I need to find an alternative solution.
Here are my needs:
- Needs to be able to export any playlist from iTunes to any specified folder or drive
- Needs to generate an M3U playlist to keep the audio files in the correct order
- It would be nice if it could optionally delete the tracks from iTunes (and the hard drive) upon successfully syncing to a folder / device
- It would be nice if it could add new tracks and delete dead tracks from the iTunes library
Let's face it: brand lock-in sucks. While nobody will refute the fact that iTunes coupled with an iPod is a
match made in heaven, for the "rest of us" that can't afford the overpriced mp3 players and are stuck with a
more regular model, the situation is not nearly as peachy. For us, moving media to and from our devices is a manual
chore, and one that does not sync up with how we listen to our music, or the playlists that we've created. In short,
the experience is lacking. 
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