Motherload
Sunday, March 13, 2005
What is Motherload?
Motherload is a simple little application to load your mp3 player from your iTunes library in a way that is not completely dissimilar to the iPod Shuffle.
It takes the pain out of filling up a smaller player from a large music collection.
Download Motherload 1.0
How does it work?
It couldn't get much easier:
- Plug in your Player
- Start Motherload
- Select which playlist you want your songs to come from (or just leave it set to the whole library).
- Choose if you want to add songs to what's already there or replace the current selection.
- Choose to add the songs in playlist order or a random selection
- Choose the drive letter that corresponds to your player
- Hit "Fill"
Are there any limitations?
Well you're pretty much stuck with mp3 files. iTunes can't manage Windows Media and your player probably can't play AAC.
Where is it going to put this stuff?
Motherload creates a folder on your player called "_Motherload". All Motherload music is copied to this folder. Motherload will never touch files outside this folder, so you can still use the player as a portable drive if that's your thing. You probably want to wipe the player before you start or Motherload won't have anywhere to put its files.
Why doesn't it work?
Motherload requires:
Make sure both of these are installed.
Where can I get more help?
Try posting here. You never know.
4 Comments:
Mhh, looks like the download link is broken.
Blogger!
Get's me every time.
I stumbled on this following a thread backwards from Audioscrobbler. It's a terrific idea and I'm using it to populate my mobile phone.
What's with the filenames though? I can't work out whether it's a bug or a feature of my tagging, but on about one file in 5 the artist/name gets overwritten with the gibberish file name. Do you really need to change the names? Just wondering.
But thanks - very much.
Didn't mean to be anonymous, hopefully this will put things right. Do you intend to do anything with Motherload? It is worth pursuing I think. Just me.
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