Thank God For Senuti

3188 songs, 10.2 days, 13.63 GB... all locked up, thanks to the fact that macs control ipods better than pcs do. maybe i was doing something wrong, but getting one's music off one's ipod is well nigh impossible on a mac -- just as is getting one's photos off one's sony digital camera without erasing the contents of the memory stick. it has something to do with the files being invisible, i think.

but then brian and adam told me about senuti ("itunes" in reverse -- genius, eh?). simple download, one-click install, native to mac, and easy as pie. it looks just like itunes, except that it works in the opposite direction, allowing you to (see large green arrow) transfer music to a hard drive.

i think i've made one gross mistake by not fiddling with the preferences, so that all my music is currently getting sorted by artist and album (so many folders! gah!), and i'm a teensy bit sad that my nice [artist] - track name.mp3 naming system has been replaced by a rather more primitive trackname.mp3 system, but these are the days of front-end-not-back-end computing, so who's complaining?! at least my beloved music is safe -- and i get to keep the ratings and the playlists, too!