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As much as we love our Macs, they’re occasionally imperfect devices—they can crash, and if we, in our particularly imperfect way, neglect to back up our data, that data may then be vaporized. Data loss is particularly painful when that data is your iTunes library.
Thankfully, a copy of that library can often be found in your pocket, housed within your iPod or iPhone. PodWorks’ job is to copy it from your pocket to the inside of your now trouble-free Mac.
Like other utilities, it copies all your media from your iPod via the iPod’s data cable. Unlike some other utilities, it also copies your playlists, ratings, and play counts. Plus, it works with the iPhone and iPod touch and can run directly from a click-wheel iPod