PodWorks 2.0 Released
After nearly a week of torturous all-nighters, I am thrilled to say I finally have PodWorks 2.0 out the door. As the version number would suggest, this new version is the first major release of PodWorks since its debut, and it addresses what are probably the most frequently requested features.
- Playlist support: This is an addition I’m particularly proud of, since it is not only a useful feature, but also evidence of PodWorks’s uniqueness as the only “standalone” iPod utility capable of reading directly from the iPod’s internal database. PodWorks can now display your iPod’s playlists as easily as it can display the main song list, and allows copying of entire playlists with a single drag!
- Additional metadata: The display of song “metadata” is another area where PodWorks’s knowledge of the iPod database format comes in handy, since it facilitates the display of information not contained in ID3 tags. PodWorks 2, for example, introduces song table columns for “Date Added” and “Date Modified.” Like the “Play Count” column introduced in PodWorks 1.3, these columns display data only available through Apple’s proprietary iTunes/iPod database format. As such, you’re not likely to see them in other iPod song transfer utilities any time soon.
In addition to all of this, PodWorks 2 marks the debut of a stunning new application icon designed by the incomparable Dave Brasgala (of the IconFactory—you may remember him from such application icons as Transmit and Candybar). Dave’s a very busy man these days (who knew there so many patrons of the icon arts out there?), and I sincerely appreciate his willingness to take my work on. Now that PodWorks has a “real” icon (and not just something I slapped together using CanCombineIcons), I feel PodWorks has finally become the polished application I’ve always wanted it to be!