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Now that Apple has closed the loophole which allowed Palm Pre users to sync their music collections using iTunes (for which they are taking a beating in the blogs), a lot of Pre users are looking for alternatives to keep their music collections up to date on their smartphones.

There actually are a wide range of options available that are completely beyond Apple’s ever more draconian control. For example, the Missing Sync, long an essential tool for Mac users who have Palm devices, is continuing to be able to sync iTunes 8.2.1 with the Pre. The software is Mac only, but I have been assured by Mark/Space however that they will soon have versions ready for XP and Vista.

Jason Chen offers concise reviews of several good alternatives for iTunes at Gizmodo. He prefers an app called DoubleClick, but also suggests other possibilities.

Personally I would recommend using Songbird, a high quality iTunes replacement, or the classic music application WinAmp, which has numerous features for syncing your music collection with mobile devices.

However you feel about Apple’s decision (personally I think it is shortsighted and petty) it is not the end of the world, as there are many ways to use your iTunes music collection without ACTUALLY involving iTunes or Apple.

Rock on, freebird.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).