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Manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes).

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.

Features:

* Cross plattform - Works on any Windows (98 and above), any Mac and any linux distribution with GTK installed.
* No installation required - Put the application on iPod and launch it on any PC, immediately.
* Playlists - Easily manage, import and export (m3u, pls) playlists.
* Last.fm - Join the social music revolution.
* Localization - Available in different languages.
* Lyrics - Lyric support even on older iPods (3G and above).
* Search for duplicates - Easily find duplicated songs on iPod.
* Search lost files - Easily find songs lost in your iPod.
* Artwork - Add artwork to your songs easily.
* Export to HTML - Create HTML files containing list of your iPod files
* Fix iPod - Did a software mess up your iPod? Fix it!

What's New:

- improved podcast decode
- better/faster user experience when adding podcast
- error when adding many podcast at the same time
- fit to screen (crop to 4:3 option) when converting
- linux root=nil? error
- tab order in preferences
- fixed db writing error
- fixed some rare problems when adding podcasts
- visual glitch when renaming genres/artists/albums
- sequential add when copying to iPod
- artwork wasn't embedded in files when copying
- improved mem usage when adding files to iPod
- Czech translation updated
- Hungarian translation updated
- improvements and bug fixes in folder synchronization
- fix playcount update when playing in Floola
- skip count data wasn't correctly loaded from db
- fixed album mixup
- support for Nano4G
- fixed issue with shuffle playcount
- better quitting
- fixed autocomplete with TAB
- more iTunes like db
- ascending/descending setting for playlists
- smart playlists can be sorted by fields
- new ffmpeg version (windows only)
- minor issues with iteminfo window
- more consistent autocomplete feature in iteminfo window
- delete exception
- fixed some minor issues with photo feature
- faster quit
- fixed artist/album mixup issue
- swedish translation update
- fixed issue searching for certain characters
- fixed issue downloading certain podcasts (ex. CNN)
- issue editing song tags