Misu Review and Giveaway: iPods Living in Harmony.

Posted by Greg Healy on 04/1/08 in Apple, Audio, Featured, Utilities

Misu Back on March 20th, MacApper was sent exclusive video of Ollie Wagner and Geoff Pado’s new app Misu. Since, then Misu v1.0 has been released, and is available to the general public. Now that Misu has been released to the public, I can now go into more detail about what Misu actualy does.

The first thing that Misu asks you to do is to connect at least two iPods to your computer. So right right from the start, you require three things for Misu to work. Two iPods, two iPod cables, and at least two free USB ports. Once you connect two or more iPods, you will see their icons appear on top of the window.

Misu iPods waiting

When the iPods are connected and ready to go, clicking transfer music will transfer all the music from the iPod pictured on the left, to the iPod(s) on the right. To change the order, double click on the iPod that you want to transfer music from, and it will slide over to the left (as pictured in the video).

Misu Songs FOlder

To begin transferring your music, just click “Transfer Music.” Depending how much music you are transferring in total, it should only take a few minutes. Once your transfer has completed, there will be a folder on the destination iPods called “Misu Songs.” To get these songs into their new iTunes Library, you can manually drag them onto the iTunes window, or if you have Misu on the destination computer (which Misu will ask you if you want to copy Misu onto the iPod) you can click “File>Import Songs into iTunes,” and Misu will do all the heavy lifting for you. Misu will also only copy songs that the new library does not already have, so you will not be stuck sorting through duplicates.

Misu looks like it will be quite a handy app, and may end up getting some added functionality in the future. The developers of Misu have been kind enough to give away 10 licenses of Misu along with this review. The first 10 people to comment on this post with where the name “Misu” comes from, gets a license! If you aren’t quick enough to the draw, you can pick up Misu for $19 from the Misu Store.

EDITOR’S NOTE: MacApper does not endorse or recommend copying music that you do not own!

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fmayakos said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:08 am

easy: Mi iPod es Su iPod!

fmayakos said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:09 am

btw, looks like a really handy app!

John said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:18 am

What fmayakos said, top right of the Misu website…Mi iPod es Su iPod.

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Shawn said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:20 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod!

John said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:20 am

I anticipate using this to put select music on my daughter’s iPod Shuffle - I don’t want to actually sync it with my music library as I’m a neat freak so this will be useful.

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marieboyer said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:33 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod

Marlo said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:48 am

mi ipod es su ipod!

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bateman said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:51 am

Hey I should be still in time!

Aaron Mcilvain said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:53 am

if it sounds too good to be true, remember its April fools day!

Tonje said on

April 1st, 2008 at 6:59 am

thank you misu!

Marlo said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:01 am

it does seem to good to be true. in case it is true, commented takes zero effort.

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Peter said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:04 am

What I don’t understand is the fact “MacApper does not endorse or recommend copying music that you do not own”, yet reviews Misu, whose main purpose is to avoid the hassle of importing music you don’t have on your computer and then sending it to another iPod (”Mi iPod es Su iPod”).
This means there is a great chance the owner of the second iPod does not own the music being transferred to it in the first place.

Barrie said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:21 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod is the phrase that pays I assume… My iPod is your iPod

John said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:24 am

It also means that those who have a few iPods can easily transfer their own music between them without having to sync to a particular iTunes install on a particular machine.

Jeez. What’s with the immediate assumption of guilt?

Anyway, if it’s an April Fools then it’s moot, although there was a preview of this a while back here. If it is a joke then someone should develop it anyway!

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Denis said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:27 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod/My iPod is your iPod

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Paul said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:30 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod!!! Which means My iPod is your iPod

Zander said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:56 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod

Ben Cunningham said on

April 1st, 2008 at 8:05 am

“Mi iPod es Su iPod” seems to be it… although it doesn’t explicitly say “this is what the name misu diverged from” so one can only guess.

MacDork said on

April 1st, 2008 at 8:33 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod… I have an inside source, heh.

Ayodh said on

April 1st, 2008 at 8:58 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod

Peter said on

April 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am

@John: true, good example of use.
This has actually got me wondering why Apple made it such that you can’t transfer any music from an iPod to anything else (computer, iPod or anything else) without resorting to third-party applications (I remember discovering stuff like Senuti and another app beforehand, and realising that, because our network was so slow and OS X wasn’t the greatest for network transfers back then, this would be the best way for me to get songs off my dad’s computer, & so on).
Was it something to reassure labels?

Amirah said on

April 1st, 2008 at 9:33 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod

John said on

April 1st, 2008 at 10:04 am

@Peter

What Apple generally want to do almost always is create an ecosystem of products and services that are virtually guaranteed to work well together. Hence iTunes/iPods, .Mac, Apple TV and select 3rd party services like YouTube and flickr. It does make sense, from their perspective.

However, the restrictions built in to that ecosystem (in this case as FairPlay DRM) were designed to comfort labels and make wide-scale piracy difficult.

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rmaspero said on

April 1st, 2008 at 10:14 am

Mi iPod es Su iPod! There we go

Wes said on

April 1st, 2008 at 10:39 am

MISU = Maybe the iPods are Syncing Us.

Thats deep.

black milk said on

April 1st, 2008 at 5:00 pm

so does this work with windows formatted iPods as well?

Henry said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pm

MISU comes from (M)y (I)pod es (SU) iPod. How about that?

Greg Healy said on

April 1st, 2008 at 7:12 pm

Alright guys and gals, the 10 licenses have been spoken for, but I would still love to hear your comments on what you think of Misu.

Greg Healy said on

April 1st, 2008 at 10:00 pm

The first 10 people who commented on this post with the correct answer have been issued their licenses.

Christopher Su said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 am

Brings back memories of that children’s rhyme. You know my friend is your friend and your friend is my friend. My iPod is your iPod and your iPod is my iPod.

Aditi said on

April 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 pm

Mi iPod es Su iPod is where ‘MiSu’ comes from

Bruce A said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 11:28 am

I still want an answer to my earlier question: Does Misu sync play counts and ratings as well as tracks?

michael said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 pm

to extend black milk’s question, will it work if, let’s say, I connect my apple-formated ipod & my daughter’s window$-formated ipod together on my mac pro ?

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michael said on

April 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm

… also wondering if it will “exchange” only music between them or if the whole libraries will be synched, including podcasts and movie clips ?

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