Comments on: Scooplet: the Palm Pre syncs with iTunes

By: Russell Samuels, Montreal, QC

Russell Samuels, Montreal, QC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:36:18 +0000

For those of you who are a little bit annoyed by the cat and mouse game being played with iTunes and the Palm Pre, MediaMonkey 3.2 was just released and it adds support for music, album art, and playlist synchronization to the palm pre.

It's available at mediamonkey.com.

-Rusty

By: doggy city,

doggy city, — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:22:44 +0000

well guy i am so mad, i want to cry,

Well i was at the sprint store at 840am and finally was able to get in at 930. i got myself a pre. i love the phone. Unfortunately when i got home, after i took the plastic protectorout of the screen i saw that there was a little screen crack, nothing major so i decided to return to the sprint sore, by the time i got there, till now the crack is getting bigger and now he scree is not even functioning at all..i told them about it, but they want me to pay an extra $119 to get the phone fixed, or to contact palm who is being unfair as well

This wasnt my fault, i didnt drop the phone or anything, i am so mad and thy want to charge me more for something i didnt do. On top of that, they dont even have a phone left there, so i am stuck…i really feel bad really really…i dont know what to do. If you got advice, message me at http://www.PalmPreForum.org thanks.

By: Kay M, Washington, DC

Kay M, Washington, DC — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:35:13 +0000

Did one of the commentators write: no other Non Apple devices sync with iTunes? What?

People have been syncing their blackberries and Windows mobile smartphones with iTunes for a long time

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By: Brian, Irvine CA

Brian, Irvine CA — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:17:48 +0000

MacRumors has a very good article quoting DVD Jon about the parlor trick used by Palm to make the Pre work with iTunes: it mimics an iPod when addressing itself as an external USB device. Jon Johannsen concludes that Apple can simply nuke this trick in the company's next iTunes update. He might be right. Here's the link to the story:

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/05/29/palm-pre-emulating-an-ipod-to-accomplish-itunes-sync/

If I were contemplating a Pre, that would not give me confidence in buying one. Despite some cool things, Palm has done a very good job of hyping a product that basically no one has had the chance to test in depth prior to the launch. If it's a pig, all we see is the lipstick. Regardless of who makes a product, I've learned to look beyond the breathless headlines and hype, and wait for real-world results.

Given how thin our pocketbooks are these days, I recommend that you do the same. No sense getting burned by good PR.

By: Shaun, Yorkshire, UK

Shaun, Yorkshire, UK — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:41:41 +0000

Nokia's E and N series phones also sync with iTunes seamlessly. They have done for some time.

They also sync with iSync and iPhoto – seamlessly.

See http://europe.nokia.com/A4423134 for the plugins.

ex ped: Nokia's plug-in allows their phones to read iTunes library files. That is not the same thing as conning iTunes into thinking a non-Apple device is an iPod. There's an explanation of the difference here.

By: David, Orlando, FL

David, Orlando, FL — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:21:49 +0000

I just thought I would point out, for those who have not been using iTunes recently, and or are not very familiar with the content in the store, that actually, virtually every single music track offered in iTunes is now unprotected. I believe that now, only very few tracks remain in protected format, while almost every other single track from every artist present in iTunes is no unprotected non DRM format iTunes Plus. The downside is, many tracks have increased in price ever since iTunes allowed variable pricing for individual downloads.

By: Bill Fairfax, VA

Bill Fairfax, VA — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:38:26 +0000

If the Pre can't handle "old" copy protected songs and/or DRM preotected songs (both statements appear in this article), then how is that equivalent to the Pre synching with iTunes??? Sounds like it actually DOESN'T completely synch….aren't most of my songs DRM protected in iTunes. This article makes no sense.

By: Fred Hamranhansenhansen, San Francisco, CA

Fred Hamranhansenhansen, San Francisco, CA — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:59:16 +0000

You could always sync non-Apple devices with iTunes on the Mac. I used to sync a Creative Nomad II with iTunes when it first came out in 1999 or so.

It's only on Windows where each music player is expected to bring its own software, so Apple did that with the iPod.

By: mark, boston, ma

mark, boston, ma — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:11 +0000

@Harvey: Apple has already provided built-in support for many mp3 devices and an iTunes SDK. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2172

Don't really know what is new here with the Pre.

ex ped: As noted earlier, only five manufacturers are supported, and they don't include Palm, Microsoft or RIM. See also the update from D7. The Wall St. Journal crew seemed to find this feature newsworthy.