14 DAY TRIAL // Formerly known as iPodRip, The Little App Factory’s iRip has received a maintenance update that adds iPad support, as well as support for the transfer of advanced song options for iPhones and all iPods (stop time, start time, exclude from shuffle, bookmarkable, checked, EQ preset, media kind) and lots more enhancements.
In November last year, Softpedia reported that John Devor, of The Little App Factory, had sent an email to Apple’s CEO to clarify some legal matters regarding its application’s name. Apple doesn’t want any third-party products bearing “iPod” references, so Steve Jobs told Devor, “Change your app's name. Not that big of a deal.” Devor did, and now the same wonderful product The Little App Factory sells is simply called iRip.
For those who aren’t very familiar with iRip, it can effectively rip songs from your iPod, iPhone, and now iPad without forcing you to fire up iTunes and sync. Basically, you don’t need to authorize a computer to offload some songs from your Apple portable onto its hard drive. Simply download and launch iRip, select the “manual import” option to choose what songs you want transferred from your device to that computer, and hit “import.”
Below, you can have a look at the complete list of changes included in the latest version of the software (iRip 1.5), and then hit up the download link to grab the program and give it a try. The first 100 rips are free.
• Support for transfer of advanced song options for iPhones and all iPods (stop time, start time, exclude from shuffle, bookmarkable, checked, EQ preset, media kind). • Many general performance and reliability enhancements. • Qualified for use with iPads. • Support for viewing many more tags in manual mode; undesired tag columns can now also be hidden. • Tracks that have been purchased directly on iPhones and iPods touch can now be transferred. • Track previewing now works on iPhones, iPods touch, and the latest generation of iPods classic/nano. • Smart and regular playlists can be recreated without importing the actual song files (option-click on the down arrow). • Smart playlists from older iPods can now be recreated. • Purchased playlist now actually shows only purchased songs, not every single song on the selected iPod. • In certain cases, the star rating of songs was being imported incorrectly; this is fixed. • When an iPod is forcibly disconnected during an automatic recovery, an error message is now displayed. • When multiple iPods touch, iPhones, or iPads are connected, all of them now appear in the Welcome window pop-up button. • In manual mode, songs are imported in the order they are sorted; in automatic mode, songs are imported after being sorted by artist and then by album. • Column sorting behavior now more closely matches iTunes. • Automatically detects crashes and offers to send them to the developer. • Adds a new “Send Feedback…” item in the Help menu, and allows the user to send preferences, logs, system information, and user-specified comments.