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Today, I am going to show you how to

Manage iPhone without iTunes

 and how to

Transfer Music from iPhone to iTunes

I recently reinstalled my whole system and when it came to downloading and installing iTunes, I didn't feel like going through that infinite process again that I experienced last time

Indeed, in addition to the damn long downloading and damn long installation, I wanted to avoid contaminating my computer with hundreds of obscure processes added to my computer startup without having been asked to

I started browsing the "World Wide Web" and found a couple of decent tools to

use iPhone / iPod Touch music without iTunes

, some free, some not, some good, some really crappy

I'll save you the countless installations and tests and introduce you straight to the

free iPhone management software

of my choice

This little piece of software only "weights" 3.43 Mb and is called Manager


Download

You can get it from here


Installation

The first cool thing about Manager is that it does not require any installation

This means that you just need to download the zip file from the manufacturer's website and double click on it upon complete download

Make sure to extract both the CopyTransManager.exe and CopyTransManager.ris files from the zip, as both are required for the program to work

This also means that the program can even be run straight from your iPod ( not iPhone or iTouch unfortunately, as these models do not support Disk mode and, hence, cannot be used as hard drives )

So, Manager is portable ( standalone ) iPod manager

Manage iPhone without iTunes

OK, enough talking, let's jump to the real fun ( I bet you just scrolled down here, didn't ya? )

The main thing to understand with an

iPhone manager

is that, as opposite to fully featured media centers like iTunes, it is only meant to

manage iPhone songs, playlists

and other

music contents

, but not the media data of your computer ( called "Library" in iTunes )

Which is actually what we want

So, what you see in Manager are the songs on your iPhone, not the ones of your computer's hard drive



From this on, the rest is crystal clear and obvious:

• You want to add / download songs to iPhone? Just drag them from any folder of your computer to Manager
• Remove songs from iPhone by right-clicking on them and select Delete from iPod
• Edit iPhone playlists without iTunes as easily as with iTunes, but with an application that downloads in a blink, does not require an installation, does not mess up your computer with MBs of useless data and resource-consuming processes, is super light and fast and does not constantly bait with whatever it can sell
• Create new playlists on iPhone and rename existing ones
• Delete iPhone playlists
• Add artworks ( album arts, album covers ) to iPhone with drag & drop
• Edit iPhone songs infos ( ID tags )

Finally, Manager has 2 really cool features that will please the most paranoid among you:

• It creates a backup of your iPhone database ( the file that contains all the information about iPhone songs and playlists ) so you can rollback to how your iPhone was before managing it with Manager
• It allows to either apply changes to iPhone on the fly immediately or, for faster and safer

  iPhone management

  , altogether and the end of the editing session