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Wondering if anyone can help.
I have done this in the past and completely ballsed it up . A pal has had their laptop pinched and had to replace it. All of his music is on his ipod classic (ripped from cd rather than purchased through itunes store).
He wants to get all the music back off the ipod and into itunes on his laptop (windows). Last time I tried this years ago on mine it tried to format the ipod before pairing it which would result in losing all the music.
He has not subscribed to itunes match nor done a cloud backup so can anyone please let me know how I can transfer it across easily?
thanks in advance
Use a program that used to be called Ephpod and now I think my be called CopyTrans or something like that. Costs about $20, but works a treat.
Wife has the same problem, laptop died and she wants to be able to update playlists on her ipod which no longer exist in iTunes.....
Same solution to get the files off ipod onto the laptop replacement, then.
Turn off syncing in iTunes before connecting the ipod, then it won't try to wipe it.
Edit>Preferences>Devices>Prevent iPods.... from syncing automatically.
As a emergency backup, you can copy all the music files off the iPod first - copy the iPod_Control folder off it. The files will have all the wrong names, but if they're tagged you can use MP3Tag to convert the tags into proper filenames.
+1 for the copy trans program.
I used that a while ago. It costs peanuts and stops you tearing your hair out!!
Just tested out a freebee bit of software, Syncios... seems to work fine:
http://www.any-video-converter.com/ipod-transfer-software.php
or http://syncios.com/syncios
I've used some free software called IDump in the past. Works really well.
Thanks for all the suggestions, that really helps.
Such a pain in the backside that you can't just plug it in...
Such a pain in the backside that you can't just plug it in..
Good old Apple eh?!!
i know you used to be able to do it through contour panel. when you get into the directory of the opid there are a load of different files in there and one of the which i think is greyed out is the music files. remover the file protection and just copy the file of your hard drive. you then open iTunes and consolidate your music files and iTunes does the rest.
I'm sure I'm simplifying it but I've done it numerous times in the past but not for quite a while so like i say I'm probably missing something out.
turn of auto syncing first though.
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Such a pain in the backside that you can't just plug it in..
Good old Apple eh?!!
This is due to the music business demanding that Apple disable any ability to easily copy music back from an iPod to a computer, as this could aid music piracy. This is also the reason many ebooks are loaded with DRM.
It's also the reason I couldn't borrow an old copy of OSX from my Apple retailer to upgrade my old PowerBook, despite having bought it there, as that is software piracy according to the law.
Don't blame Apple for limitations imposed by outside agencies.
Especially when they don't stop third-party entities from creating the means to the job for them, in the same way that Apple have always allowed a workaround by letting users copy their music to cd or DVD, and re-import it into iTunes, although that was mainly to circumvent the DRM imposed by the music biz, since that was dropped in 2010, it doesn't matter any more.
Copy all the files from the iPod_Control folder on the iPod to the 'Automatically Add to iTunes' folder in your iTunes folder.