The Settings menu gives you the option of displaying album artwork and sending errors and/or usage statistics to the CopyTrans team.ĬopyTrans comes as a zip file, but installs and uninstalls cleanly. Still, once CopyTrans finished copying all of the files, it copied the files to our computer and imported them to iTunes. Now, we don't keep a lot of content on our iPhone - we had only 89 files between apps and music - and it took about seven minutes to copy all of the files it wasn't a lot of time, but if you have a lot of content on your device, it could take a bit of time to complete. CopyTrans immediately went to work and we could watch the status of the backup in a pop-up window that also allows you to pause and cancel the action.

With Smart backup selected, we clicked the button of the same name. You have two backup options: Smart and Manual. Our music playlist info was broken down into Genre, Artists, and Albums. With our iPhone 4 plugged into our PC, the program immediately went to work pulling our playlist and camera info and displaying the content in the window. But thanks to its simple but functional user interface, we really didn't need the documentation. To ensure a positive user experience, CopyTrans offers help from the get-go with a pop-up window that gives you links to its online User Guides, Getting Started Guide, and video demo. CopyTrans promises an easy, smart, safe way to transfer and back up your Apple device content, and it delivers. Very cool.ITunes is the default program for managing all of your Apple devices, but it's certainly not the be-all and end-all for managing your iPhone or iPod content. BANG! The songs are on your iPod! Only 1 labor-intensive part: I need my tunes grouped into sets (for the gigs), so I had to go in and update the 'album' field on each track with that song's set number, so after loading all the tunes, all I do is click on 'albums', & all my sets pop up in numerical order! Click on a set & there are the tunes. 3 steps: (1) Click 'Add', (2) Select the music from your hard drive, (3) click 'update'. First, there's a utility to download some iTunes drivers that it needs (not iTunes itself, just the drivers), which takes 1 minute, and then it only took me a few minutes to understand/master the Copytrans interface. NOT! After hunting everywhere for a simpler solution, I finally happened across Copytrans Manager. I think Apple configured this so that you buy music apps through their online store, so they get even richer than they are now.

To my shock, I found that you can't just copy and paste music from PC to iPod: No, you need to shoot a fly with an elephant gun, & manage everything via iTunes, which I've never needed or used.

Never having owned an Apple product before (always a PC user, & don't care for those little handheld i-gizmos that everyone's walking around with nowadays).I bought a used iPod Touch to use as an MP3 player to play backing tracks at gigs.

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