recovering music from ipod

[paul13]

hi,

i know there have been posts on here previously about recovering the music that is on the ipod to the computer,

my computer has crashed, and is now only stored on the ipod, so do not want to connect to the other computer as it will wipe what is on the ipod,

have done a search, but not sure whcih thread to post this on.


any help will be much appreciated as usual.

thanks

 

[jimbo]

try EphPod http://www.ephpod.com/

 

[Dave56]

I recently had a similar problem & was reccomended this by a fellow tosser..

http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/musicrescue/mr_download.php

 

[stef25]

ive had some success with anapod explorer. its not free and you can not find pirate copies easily, but its worth the money. check to make sure it does what you want, but imo its way better than the standard itunes.

also check out songbird, a free tool by the makers of firefox.

 

[Boddabing!!]

hi,

i know there have been posts on here previously about recovering the music that is on the ipod to the computer,

my computer has crashed, and is now only stored on the ipod, so do not want to connect to the other computer as it will wipe what is on the ipod,

have done a search, but not sure whcih thread to post this on.


any help will be much appreciated as usual.

thanks[

Hi
I have used this software for 5 years its user friendly & affordable....
Its called Igadget follow the link.........

http://download.cnet.com/iGadget/3000-18545_4-10338209.html?tag=mncol;psum

 

[NorthernBoy]

I use iPodRip. Just be very, very careful that you do not have auto sync on when you plug the iPod in, as it will just run through deleting everything.

And, for future, I'd recommend buying a £30 external drive and dumping a copy of your hard drive on there occasionally.

 

[paul13]

thanks for all the posts,

will have a go at this for the weekend, will view all the different options you have all suggested,


we do have an external hard drive, but how do you move all your itunes music, as i could not seem to save it previously, do you have to save your music to a different format first,

thanks again.

 

[cookie]

we do have an external hard drive, but how do you move all your itunes music, as i could not seem to save it previously, do you have to save your music to a different format first,

thanks again.

there's a folder called itunes music somewhere with all your music on it. i'd tell you where it was if i had a windows machine handy, but i don't.
just copy that to the external drive.

you don't have to change format, but if you've initially imported it into itunes on default AAC setting, it might not play in windows media player.

 

[NorthernBoy]

thanks for all the posts,

will have a go at this for the weekend, will view all the different options you have all suggested,


we do have an external hard drive, but how do you move all your itunes music, as i could not seem to save it previously, do you have to save your music to a different format first,

thanks again.

Just find the location of your music by opening preferences in iTunes, and then selecting "advanced". This will show you where it is storing everything. Mine, for example, shows

Macintosh HD:Users:NorthernBoy:Music:iTunes:iTunes Music:

So just drag and drop the "iTunesMusic" folder to your external drive.

If you have been importing your music with iTunes (either by sticking CDs in, or buying from the iTunes store), then all of your music should be in the same place. There is no need to change formats; just copy it over, and if you ever kill it, you can copy it back.

There is also a file in your iTunes directory called "iTunes Library". This is the file which contains your ratings, playcounts, playlists etc. You can make a copy of this, too, and then if you really, really ever balls things up, can just copy this old version back into the iTunes folder.

 

[paul13]

thanks Northernboy and cookie,

sound advice

can you save other ipods to the same hard drive, as the children have an ipod each, under their names on the pc.

 

[NorthernBoy]

thanks Northernboy and cookie,

sound advice

can you save other ipods to the same hard drive, as the children have an ipod each, under their names on the pc.

The library is for your whole iTunes, rather than for each iPod, so if you are syncing all of your iPods to one account on the computer, then you only need to copy that one library over, no matter how many iPods sync with it. The details about which songs sync with each iPod are going to be in the "iTunes Library" file, or on the iPods themselves (I am not sure which). The important thing, though, is the directry with all the actual music files in it. With that, you can always get all of your music back, even on a completely separate computer (although you might lose your playcounts, song ratings etc.)

If the computer has several completely separate accounts (i.e. each person logs in to the whole computer using their own username and password), then you'll probably find that each person will find that their iTunes library is in a different place. If so, copy each of them to your backup drive.

One way to be sure that you have copied over the right stuff is to note the size of the file that you are moving. The library file with your song ratings etc. is only about 10-20Mb. Your actual music will be more like 5Mb per song, so if you have 1000 tracks, this is going to be a file of several Gb in size. If you are not copying that to your backup drive, then you are not getting your songs backed up.

 

[WindyChuffer]

If you are on a Mac, an app called "senuti" works very well at copying music from your ipod to computer.

If you look carefully, you'll see its actually "itunes" spelt backwards...

 

[cookie]

If you are on a Mac, an app called "senuti" works very well at copying music from your ipod to computer.

my computer has crashed

probably a PC then

 

[paul13]

yes tis a pc,

worth knowing the senuti for mac, as my son is a mac user with his ipod and iphone, so you never know,

 

[digga]

thanks Northernboy and cookie,

sound advice

can you save other ipods to the same hard drive, as the children have an ipod each, under their names on the pc.

no pun intended ..

 

[NorthernBoy]

yes tis a pc,

worth knowing the senuti for mac, as my son is a mac user with his ipod and iphone, so you never know,

An ideal moent here to proselytise about macs...

For synchronising with iPods, and iPhones, some web browsing, and emailing, I'd always recommend a mac to anyone.

ON the backup issue, for example, my macs all automatically back themselves up hourly over the wireless network, so I can g back and get any earlier version of any file. Because they were designed for the non-IT savvy (depite of course having Unix underpinnings for us geeks), it is all very, very easy to set up.

I then have apple TV attached to my television, through which I rent and buy films and TV shows, and the music can be piped wirelessly to any room in the house. This is controlled from my iPhone.

But, of course, the main selling point is that it is very hard to get them to crash in the first place, as macs, of course, seem to be virtually totally immune to viruses.