Senuti (

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written by Whitney Young. It was released on April 19, 2006, for copying songs from an

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computer running Mac OS X 10.5 or later. According to FadingRed, the company that sells and distributes Senuti, it has been downloaded over 2 million times.

Description

Senuti is an application for transferring files, such as songs and videos, from an iPod or iPhone back to a Macintosh computer. It is a

-exclusive application; no version of Senuti has been released for

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. It can be downloaded as a free demo, which allows the user to transfer 1,000 songs from an iPod. The unlimited version is available for around US$20.

History

Senuti was developed by Whitney Young, who started as a

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senior searching for a way to transfer music from his iPod onto a Mac computer. Upon realizing that a good solution did not exist, Whitney wrote one. He leveraged the developers in the

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community to help him write the code. Senuti is now sold by a software company called FadingRed, of which Young is co-founder and lead developer. Senuti was originally released as GNU GPL software. The code following the 0.50.2 release was changed to payware in February 2009, although publications such as ''Wired'' still referred to the product as Open Source code as late as April 2009.Get Your Music Off of Your iPod
at wired.com The older, GPL version of this software i
still available online

References

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Senuti 0.50.6
at

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"Music Rescue"
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'', February 2005
"In Praise of Senuti"
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archive copyInformation from SoftpediaSenuti: From iPod to iTunes
from MacApper, Accessed 25 July 2007, published 17 July 2007
Winner of the 2005 Eddy Awards

External links

How to Use Senuti – a wiki how-to guide 2006 software IPod software

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