# Anybody using 3rd party software on a newer iPod?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 23, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-using-3rd-party-software-on-a-newer-ipod/482678 "2009-01-23T18:31:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-using-3rd-party-software-on-a-newer-ipod/482678/1 "2009-01-23T18:31:41Z")

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There were various free programs available to copy music to/from older iPods. Now a family member has a 3g iPod Nano and I can’t find much software to work with it. There seem to be many programs to copy music off the player, but not much to copy music to it. The best I have right now is [Poddox](http://www.poddox.com/), but it’s pretty clunky and unreliable. No drag and drop.

Other software such as Floola has trouble with the serial number/id/whatever that Apple has decided to use on newer iPods. Any suggestions? (Not iTunes!)

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**Author:** ![luvtinayothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@luvtinayothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvtinayothers)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-using-3rd-party-software-on-a-newer-ipod/482678/2 "2009-01-23T22:25:24Z")

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You might try [Media Monkey](http://www.mediamonkey.com/).