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Hi All,

I've just finished writing a Windows-based add-in for iTunes that will allow you to synchronize all of the music and videos you have stored in iTunes with your Walkman phone.

The program is designed to work with all of the new SE Walkman phones (W800, W600, W550, etc.) but it will still work with the K750, S700, etc. In fact, it should work with virtually any music player (phone or not) that can act as a Mass Storage Device (MSD).

iWalkman runs as a small icon in your system tray and you simply right-mouse-click on it to bring up the program's main popup menu:



What Can iWalkman Do?

In my opinion, iTunes is one of the best music organizers on the market today. Unfortunately, iTunes doesn’t directly support the synchronizing of your music with a Mass Storage Device (MSD). This means that there is no way of synchronizing your Sony Ericsson Walkman phone with the music you have stored in iTunes.

Fortunately, iWalkman comes to the rescue and resolves this problem for you.

With iWalkman, you can synchronize your Walkman phone with iTunes just as if it were a virtual iPod® or iTunes Mobile Phone (i.e. ROKR)!

Besides just being able to copy music from iTunes to your Walkman phone (or MSD), iWalkman has a whole bounty of other great features which allow you to:

· Synchronize both music AND videos.

· Specify the exact location on your MSD where your music and video files are to be stored.

· Specify how much of the disk space available on your MSD you want to use for music and video storage.

· Properly arrange and name your music and videos so as to take full advantage of the Walkman player’s Artists, Tracks, and Videos organization.

· Organize songs that are part of a compilation album by the album’s title instead of separating them all out by their individual artists.

· Organize your music by a multitude of categories such as playlist, genre, artist, album, artist & album, year, rating, composer, and grouping.

· Copy audio files to your MSD in a random order until all of the available free space on your MSD is filled up.

· Select exactly which iTunes playlists you want to synchronize.

· Prioritize the order in which your playlists are synchronized.

· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files into your desired audio format (MPEG/MP3 or AAC/M4A).

· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files to match your desired bit rate level.

· Perform on-the-fly conversion of your audio files to match your desired sample rate level.

Here's a screen shot of iWalkman's Preferences dialog box where you control exactly how the program works:



You can download a free 21-day trial version of the program from my web site here:

http://www.i-Walkman.com

I hope that you guys find it as useful as I have.

-- Mike Craven (The Office Maven)
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Posted: 2005-10-21 23:55:16
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that looks like an interesting new twist on what we saw here previously!

Crackers turn Sony Ericsson W800i into the second iTunes phone
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Posted: 2005-10-22 00:02:16
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On 2005-10-22 00:02:16, masseur wrote:
that looks like an interesting new twist on what we saw here previously!

Crackers turn Sony Ericsson W800i into the second iTunes phone



Yes, that's the app that sparked my interest in iTunes in the first place. However, it wouldn't work for me (kept erroring out) and so I decided to build one for myself instead.

The iWalkman program is working great for me here and I'm really loving it. Once you start using it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. I never minded SE's Disc2Phone app, but once you see how much more power iTunes has you'll be shocked. I for one haven't opened my Disc2Phone app once since I started using iWalkman and iTunes and I don't miss it one bit.

I only hope that you guys find it just as useful.

Take care...

-- MIKE
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Posted: 2005-10-22 00:20:29
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Mike, you left out the most important part--after the free trial, what does it cost?



This message was posted from a K750

[ This Message was edited by: Grimslade on 2005-10-24 21:02 ]
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Posted: 2005-10-22 01:03:17
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On 2005-10-22 01:03:17, Grimslade wrote:
Mike, you left out the most important part--after the free trial, what does it cost?



This message was posted from a K750


Oops... Sorry about that.

I'm selling it for $19.95 USD.

All of the details are on the web site.

-- MIKE
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Posted: 2005-10-22 01:52:30
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Looks like a good app you've got there.

Could you post a list of non-walkman phones that it is compatible with, either here or on the website?

Will it work with K700 or V800?

Does it synchronise using bluetooth?
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Posted: 2005-10-23 01:32:04
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It'll be compatible with anything that uses a memory card. Since you can specify the directory structure, you can tailor it to the needs of any phone.

Very nice piece of software, Mike If I ever find myself without my Mac, (and thus, stuck with a wondows box ) I'll be sure to give this a go.
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Posted: 2005-10-23 02:57:33
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GothTeddy,

Thanks for the great comments as I really do appreciate them. Also, thanks for stepping in and fielding that question for me.

carkitter,

Thanks for your comments too.

Alas, I'm afraid that I don't have a specific list of phones that iWalkman will work with as the list could go on forever.

Just as GothTeddy so elegantly explained, iWalkman will work with any mass storage device that organizes its music (and videos) in a folder. Thus, if your other phones, media players, etc. have the ability to be plugged into your computer and show up as a removable drive (or if they have a removable memory card that can be plugged into a card reader/writer) they'll work just fine with iWalkman. Therefore, lots of devices (like the new Sony PSP, etc.) will work with iWalkman.

Lastly, I'm afraid that iWalkman does not sync over Bluetooth.

Thanks again guys and have fun using the program...

-- MIKE
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Posted: 2005-10-23 06:20:59
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I tried this product and it wiped ALL my video files and themes .....

CAREFULL
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Posted: 2005-10-23 11:15:12
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yepp this one wiped my mem card clean and it doesn't synchronize anything from iTunes.


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Posted: 2005-10-23 12:43:29
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