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My other half has an old ipod nano 6th gen which is full of her running music that an old work colleague put on there years ago.
The iPod got dropped and damaged and we need to get the music off it to stick on a new non-ipod mp3 player.
I can't do anything on my windows laptop it seems. It won't recognise the file format and wants to format the device before it'll read it. No use.
She has a Mac, with iTunes etc, but it's a work machine and we're not allowed to install any software on it that I've found may work, such as Syncios or IMazing
In fact, we got the IT bloke to let us install Syncios but it still won't work. The device is not supported, presumably because of its age.
Does anyone know a way I can get this music off there, without having to install any third party software?
I'm thinking it's a dead end...
Speak to work colleague that set it up and get the track names and recreate?
Speak to work colleague and plug device into their machine, get songs off, rip to mp3 and then use those?
Use Mac not on network, plug device in and set iTunes up with same account as iPod, sync music. Get new device and get music on to that - if not same account then you need to authorise devices for both accounts and set a music library share so both accounts can see tunes.
It's fairly ancient and long since no longer supported, but if you can put up with a few of the quirks - PodWorks helped me pull a handful of tracks with great sentimental value off my old iPod Classic.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10273/podworks
Does exactly what you need - albeit it's a tad clunky at times.
Work colleague is long gone.
Sure we could recreate the library but obviously that would cost loads in downloads.
I'll take a look at Podworks thanks but we can't install any software on the Mac and I don't think I know anyone else with a Mac... 🤔
When you plug into iTunes does it recognise the device? If so go to the summary screen for device and see if there is a box to tick for “Enable disk use”. This may allow the iPod to show up on the desktop and be accessed via Finder. Not sure if this works with a Nano.
You have itunes installed on your windows laptop? (just checking)
A mate & I used to use 'iPod rip' back in the day, to share music, as it was quicker than borrowing & uploading the CD's.
After a quick google it seems it's still about, although I haven't used it for about 12 yrs!
get songs off, rip to mp3 and then use those?
Why would you rip to MP3? Apple’s AAC is basically MP4, a higher quality codec for DVD soundtracks, and widely supported, as both are proprietary formats that Apple, among others, licence from the MP organisation.
Can’t you temporarily install some software on the Mac, then uninstall it once it’s done it’s job?
If it is old, the aac file may have protection on the file and it can't be used elsewhere, ripping to MP3 will allow the file to be used again. Given that it sounds like the music is someone else's it might be easier to just buy all the individual tracks (won't be cheap though) as you'll then have them in a usable format.
Quality doesn't matter too much. I doubt she'd notice the difference while huffing and puffing along to the Prodigy on a set of bone conduction ear phones.
I was hoping someone might know a clever way without installing any additional software. As I say, it's a work machine and it's a royal pita to try to get them to let you install any software that's outside their normal installs.
Don't know any other Mac users.
Never mind. 👍
I found an old gen3 ipod once, managed to get into the filesystem to find a load of gobbledygook files, but I copied them to my HDD and pointed iTunes at the directory and they were all fine.
If Windows won't even open it you could make a Linux bootable USB and try to get in that way?
I can’t do anything on my windows laptop it seems. It won’t recognise the file format and wants to format the device before it’ll read it.
From this, sounds to me like the drop has corrupted the storage. You only normally get a format prompt when a disk can't be read at all.
I have a Nono 6th gen plugged into this laptop (no itunes on it) and it shows as a drive with
an "Ipod_Control" folder and a metadata file in Windows Explorer.