For commercial interests, Apple provides tight bundle sales of iPhone and iTunes, the same as iPod. As we all know that you can only via "SYNC" to add music and videos to iPhone from iTunes. However you can't load music and videos in your iPhone back to iTunes Library and back up them on your computer. This is really terrible if you experience computer crash, which means you will lose all favorite music and movies in your iTunes Library. It is also hard to share your iPod content with your other computers. To meet such needs from iPod users, various iPod management tools are released. With the hot sale of iPhone, such tool for iPhone needs of how to add video to iPhone and upload video to iPhone also appears in the market.
Xilisoft iPod Rip is one of the iPod content management software for Windows users. With Xilisoft iPod Rip, it is possible to manage multiple iPods at the same time. For iPhone users, it supports transferring music and videos between iPhone and PC, and importing files from iPhone to iTunes. High ripping speed and concise interface design make iPod/iPhone content management simple and convenient on your computer.
iPod to Mac Transfer is one of the iPod content management software for Mac users. It can transfer music, videos, podcast, and TV shows on your iPod/iPhone to Mac and add them to your local iTunes library. This iPod to Mac transfer software also transfers music and video files formatted as AAC, MP3, MP4, MOV, WAV from Mac to iPod/iPhone and allows you to edit playlists.
Although these two software can meet most of iPod users'need, they still have some flaws as:
- Don't support operation for photos
- Can't use iPhone as movable hard disc