Well, I figured I'd better grab iTools and give it a go. With respect to importing music and finding it and exporting music, I cannot complain. It's perfectly accessible: However, a word of caution is in order. IF you are going to use iTools to import your music in to your iPhone or other iDevice, you'd better make sure all your meta data tagging is absolutely correct. ITools provides no means of helping you do this: therefore, You need to see to it that you have a reliable third party tagg editor that you know you can rely on and that you can use to sequentially place track numbers in to files for you. IF you don't do this, you will discover that all your music will wind up in the dreaded "unknown" album and "unknown artiest" area. While it is true that Amadeus Pro can help a good deal with this, you need to understand that you will need to number each track manually by going in to the file's info window once inside Amadeus pro and finding and manually placing each and every track number appropriately for each file. Say you have 25 files per album. You will need to open them all in amadeus Pro, them, number each and every one of them by hand as the batch processor cannot do this automatically for you. Make sure also that your album and artiest names are tagged correctly also.
Well, that's for the music side. As for the video side, here's where iTools falls down. The actual import process couldn't be easier, but, somehow, right at the end of trying to import a video I shot using my iPhone, and trying to bring that video back in to my iPhone, I always hit an "unknown error". Upon looking through my movies in the iPhone video app, I saw my movie that I had imported but it refused to play. This is the reason why I feel that, at this time, I cannot recommend iTools. A shame really: because, it's almost perfect but for this one major flaugh. Not only that, but, the ease with which iTones handles meta data tagging and greatly helps the work flow of converting any file or batch of files in to desired formats, and the ease with which albums can be added to and taken away from the iTunes library system causes me to recommend that, at this time, it is best to learn to make peace with how iTunes works and how utilitarian it is for dealing with iPhone management. The issues I have trying to import iPhone shot videos back in to my iPhone may have something to do with the propriaritary nature of iPhone management and as Chris said earlier, third party solutions usually if not always fall short in some way or other. What makes this a shame is that iTools is so close to getting it right that if only we could contact the developer and indicate these issues, this third party solution might just be a good alternative for iDevice management. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> wrote: > there are import and export buttons which then open up a new window asking > you where you want to save them. > Matt Dierckens > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com > 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 > Work email:[email protected] > Personal email: [email protected] > > On Aug 29, 2014, at 13:26, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Even with most of the buttons not labeled? Can you send both to and from >> your iDevice? if so, how, since most of the buttons appear not to be >> labeled according to what I hear? >> >> >> Sincerely, >> the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! >> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! >> >> On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Ray and Phil. >>> You do not need windows or need to jailbreak the device. It works on OSX >>> just fine. I was able to send some music and videos, and tones to my device >>> last night with no issues. >>> Matt Dierckens >>> Macintosh Trainer >>> Blind Access Training >>> www.blindaccesstraining.com >>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 >>> Work email:[email protected] >>> Personal email: [email protected] >>> >>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 9:04, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> No. Not even close dude. >>>> >>>> iTools is supposed to be an alternative way of moving stuff to and from >>>> iDevices without having to use iTunes to do it. I've seen a couple of >>>> alternatives and, according to me, they all fall rather short. That's why >>>> I was asking about iTools. >>>> >>>> I don't mind using iTunes if I have to: but, an alternative might be >>>> interesting: provided that: >>>> >>>> 1. One does not have to install windows on the Mac. >>>> >>>> 2. That it's fully accessible. >>>> >>>> 3. That one does not have to jailbreak the phone in order to use it. >>>> >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! >>>> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>>> built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! >>>> >>>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 7:54 AM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> my question is, what the heck is iTools is it a variant of ProTools? >>>>> ? >>>>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Okay, >>>>>> >>>>>> So. >>>>>> 1. Is iTools fully accessible? iN short, can one really use all of its >>>>>> features with Voice Over? >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. Can one transfer audio and video files both to and from an iPhone >>>>>> accessibly? >>>>>> >>>>>> 3. 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