Alternatives for Syncing Your Palm Pre with Your iTunes Music Again!

The decision by Apple to shut out all non-Apple MP3 players (read iPods and the iPod Touch) from its iTunes application was a huge pain for Pre users, many thousands of whom had bought the Pre with the promise that they would be able to sync their Pre with iTunes — for much longer than just a few weeks.

Now, though, there are a number of third-party workarounds. There’s DoubleTwist by DVD Jon, which also includes a number of social media functions for sharing music and other media. It will also sync DRM-free media that you purchased using the Pre (from Amazon MP3) back to iTunes. But Salling’s Media Sync is a simple app that just sends music, podcasts and photos to almost any USB connected device, including the Pre.

Media Sync sends photos from iPhone or Aperture and music and podcasts from iTunes. It also replicates the whole structure of playlists and the playcounts of individual songs. The only thing it won’t do is copy over DRM’d music.

Media Sync, like DoubleTwist, is free and available for both OS X and Windows. There is also an upgrade fee so you can enjoy “faster syncing”.

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