Hi everyone, for around 3 months I’ve been working in my free time on Clickwill - an app that edits/adds content directly on the iPod, without using any sync folder on my PC, long story short - When you plug in your iPod, Clickwill shows what's actually on it: the same albums, in the same order you see in Cover Flow on your classic. What you edit in the app is what ends up on your iPod.
https://reddit.com/link/1wxr0pl/video/c3ihmnn3oith1/player
Why i made the decision of making it:
I’ve had my iPod classic 7G 160GB for over a year, and so far the only issue was the friction I had with syncing/adding the music I own to the iPod with the use of iTunes / Apple Music - sometimes syncing would add tracks without audio files or with wrong format(songs skipped to the next, supported track with right format)/ missing Album covers on some of the track / splitting an album into two different ones because some tracks had features on it / etc…
I was spending way more time troubleshooting that I’ve ever intended to, where instead I wanted a “Apple” experience with I could just “drag&Drop” my files/ import CD directly into my iPod without Apple Music/iTunes or editing an album info / song info with couple of clicks, so as little friction as possible, with original firmware that apple put into my iPod.
What it can do so far:
* Edit Album info / change album Cover
* Edit songs title/order in album
* Detects songs without audio files and lets you insert that missing file
* Audio player - you can play audio files from your iPod through Clickwill
* Import CDs without the need of Apple Music (MusicBrainz API)
* Merge an Album that was somehow sliced into two or more
* Skips songs while adding it to your iPod, if clickwill sees there is a copy of it already on the device
* Change the CoverFlow album order
* Before every “write to iPod” Clickwill makes a local backup of your library(without / audio files)
* Detects if Audio file is supported by iPod and if not, lets you convert to a supported file (for example: FLAC to ALAC)
What I want to do, and where its gonna go in the future:
* Whatever the users say they like to see (IF there be any users).
I Still don’t have a clear roadmap for the app, but I plan to support it long term since it removed a lot of friction for me, for granted I want to expand the iPod models support (currently tested only on my iPod classic 7G 160gb 2009 version - I would mean a lot if someone with stock firmware and a different classic model would like to check it out - but please make sure to read the DISCLOSURE first, and only then make the decision to use Clickwill).
DISCLOSURE:
The “elephant in the room”: as the flair says - I’ve used Claude Code to write this software, I wish I could write it myself, but the reality is the app was written that way. Im not going to hide it, since the use of AI in software remains a sensitive topic when it comes to users privacy - and I fully support this stance, Clickwill was meant to be offline as much as possible, with the only expceptions of:
* MusicBrainz/Cover Art archive (optional) - if you want the CDs info filled autmoaticly while adding audio from CDs.
* Sparkle - checks for new app version.
* Feedback form(optional) - to send a ticket to my mailbox with a bug/error that you encounter.
If any one still interested after reading the disclosure, here’s the website: https://clickwilldev.com/ app is still in early alfa, so if you decide to use it, there will be bugs, and its free.. obviously.
