$29.95 Developer Softorino Inc, www.softorino.com
Requirements OS X 10.9 or later, iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad
A new Mac application, WALTR, has managed to find a way to circumvent iTunes’ rigid adherence to MP3/AAC and MP4 formats. The process is a model of simplicity: launch WALTR without iTunes running, plug in any supported iOS device, then drag and drop your files over. After roughly 30 seconds, files are copied, ready for playback alongside previously synced media and iTunes in the Cloud content. The real trickery, though, lies in how the software deftly makes unsupported formats – MKV, AVI, FLAC, WMA and OGG among them – “just work” without the need for conversion software. Note that MPEG and Divx files are among the few formats the software currently rejects.
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