Which program do you use to manage music and podcasts on your computer and iPod?

http://macs.about.com/od/ipod/qt/ipod_winamp.htm Lucky for you, WinAmp can be used with the iPod now!

I mostly use winamp, but occasionally I have fiddled with http://www.ephpod.com/. I like Ephpod's ability to generate playlists based on recently added media.

i would love to be able to control podcast settings PER podcast. right now, itunes makes you decide global criteria for which episodes to keep (keep the last 3 episodes). i would like to be able to say: for podcast A with long episodes (i.e. big files), keep 1. for podcast B with tiny episodes, keep 8. i've tried many a few months ago, but came crawling back to itunes.

I like Media Monkey for music and I use Juice for podcasts. By "browsing podcasts" do you mean the podcasts listed in the iTunes Music Store? Only iTunes can connect to iTMS.

ktrey, I used to use ephpod for the exact same reason, until I realized that you can do that in iTunes too - you can create a smart playlist in iTunes on your ipod, and set up the criteria for "Date Added is in the last x days/weeks".

http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/08/10-alternatives-to-itunes-for-managing-your-ipod/ ... it seems like YamiPod and SharePod both share the interesting feature that they are loaded onto your iPod and run from there, rather than installed locally. Thus you can simply plug your iPod into any computer and transfer songs/files both to and from your iPod.

For the bleeding edge in music management you might try http://www.songbirdnest.com/. It's the latest project from the creators of winamp. There's already an add-on for iPod support. Songbird is based on the mozilla platform, so add-ons are just as easy to use as in firefox.

Foobar2k is, in my opinion, the best music player on any platform. I wish it were Mac compatible. MediaMonkey for organizing and iPod management. Although Rockbox certainly sounds interesting..

Thanks for all the advice! Lots of good answers here, I won't mark any as best because every one is helpful. It doesn't seem like there's any real consensus, so maybe it's just what you happen to like. I'm poking around with Winamp, Media Monkey, and Songbird right now to listen to music on the comp-- haven't tried iPod management yet. If those ones can handle the iPod all right, I probably won't get Rockbox. Media Monkey's organization is really good. I said in the OP that I used to like Winamp, but I was wrong; it was actually MusicMatch I used to use. Sorry for that. Media Monkey reminds me of MusicMatch. Its playlists and organization seem pretty intuitive. I don't find Winamp as easy to use as Media Monkey. I'm liking Songbird's ability to poke around on mp3 blogs. I somehow managed to play two tracks from my library at once, which is sort of annoying. As it turns out, though, Allen Iverson's "We talkin' about practice" press conference playing over the first song from the new Wilco album is a surprisingly good unintentional mashup. rxrfrx, I don't think I understand your comment. Wouldn't "taking direct control" over your music allow for more than just grouping by album? I think I'm missing something. winston, you're right, I meant to refer to the iTunes music store's podcasts. I'll try Juice for podcasts.