PodWorks 2.8.4 Released
I have to confess, it’s been way too long since PodWorks saw an update. Well over a year, in fact. Part of this is due to my work on Cocoalicious, which consumes most of my non-work programming time; part of it is due to the fact that I consider PodWorks to be fairly mature and not really in need of a whole lot of bling-bling new features; and part of it is due to the fact that it’s been a long time since an iTunes update broke my database parser.
This streak ended with yesterday’s release of iTunes 4.9. The new iPod database format contains a new record type somehow related to podcasting, and it caused my parser to go off the rails. Fortunately, it was an easy fix, and I posted a new release this morning. If you use PodWorks, you’ll definitely want to download it.
The good news is that I didn’t need to do any additional work to add podcast support to PodWorks. The “Podcasts” list simply shows up as a playlist in the drawer, and the files within it can be accessed just like any other songs on the iPod.
Now, of course, I’m a bit curious what those new record types are for. Time to break out the old hex editor…
June 29th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Most of the work on the new database format in iTunes 4.9 has already been done: http://www.ipodlinux.org/ITunesDB
June 29th, 2005 at 7:18 pm
Thanks for the update! I use PodWorks and recommend it to everyone with such a need for it, as it is my pick for the best iPod-file-yanking app out there.
July 15th, 2005 at 9:59 am
Have to say I love PodWorks, great application.
I was worried when I read about iTunes 4.9 doing something new with the names of files when they are copied to the iPod, they change them to a four character name, instead of the old way of use using the name of the song. Glad to see that Podworks has no trouble at all with this new naming convention
Excellent work
August 23rd, 2005 at 5:22 am
Great app. Nice job. How about transfers from a PC formatted iPod to a new Mac (giving up on the Windoze world) ? Will that work? I suppose burning a disk and copying and authorization of the new computer would work, but PodWorks would be so much quicker.
August 26th, 2005 at 7:48 am
Is there a PC equivolent to PodWorks anywhere?