Urgent i Pod Question

[Trippy]

My lad has sold his Nano that has 300+ songs on it, most are not in his i Tunes library on his laptop.

How can he save whats on his Nano to transfer to his new i Touch?

Ta

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Would it not just be a question of plugging it in, opening up iTunes and 'syncing' the Nano with iTunes

Andres (only just learning this iTunes malarky stuff myself)

 

[richie]

Hi Trippy,

If using windows...

Plug in Ipod and turn off Itunes...
Go into my computer and open Ipod as external HD
Go into options and show hidden files and turn off read only...
Copy all the folders with music (F01 etc) into your hard drive
Open Itunes import all folders...

Fini

If using Apple Mac... I am not sure it will work at all...

(Ferkin Itunes))))))

 

[Trippy]

Thank you.

 

[richie]

No Problem, watch out for doubled up music though.... He can always ask Itunes to show this and delete accordingly...

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

I've learnt something too, ta

Andres

 

[Trippy]

Go into options and show hidden files and turn off read only...
Copy all the folders with music (F01 etc) into your hard drive
Open Itunes import all folders...

Oh, thats where I get stuck. Options? Can't find that.

 

[Mav]

Since when can you import music from an iPod simply by copying the files?? The whole point about the iPod is the protection of the music... The only way I have copied from an iPod is by downloading software that will retrieve content from an iPod such as CopyPod. (This software is not sanctioned by Apple) Without that, you won't be able to see the music files, just a bunch of encrypted stuff that your file system won't understand...

And as for syncing with iTunes - the syncing is only one way. You can only push from iTunes to your iPod (unless you're using an iPhone/iTouch ) so syncing from iTunes to an iPod that has music not in your iTunes library, will simply remove that music.

So to get it off the Nano, download a copy of Copypod or something similar, retrieve the music, get it in to your iTunes library and maintain that so that any iPod only ever has a copy of the what's in your library.

HTH

 

[richie]

Sorry I am on a mac today... But its propably tools/options/files etc... or right hand button of the mouse once you can see the ipod with the explorer/file manager/my computer (whatever)

 

[Mav]

Some links for copypod type software:

http://www.copytrans.net/

http://www.copy-ipod-to-itunes.com/ipod-to-itunes-transfer

 

[richie]

Since when can you import music from an iPod simply by copying the files?? The whole point about the iPod is the protection of the music... The only way I have copied from an iPod is by downloading software that will retrieve content from an iPod such as CopyPod. (This software is not sanctioned by Apple) Without that, you won't be able to see the music files, just a bunch of encrypted stuff that your file system won't understand...

And as for syncing with iTunes - the syncing is only one way. You can only push from iTunes to your iPod (unless you're using an iPhone/iTouch ) so syncing from iTunes to an iPod that has music not in your iTunes library, will simply remove that music.

So to get it off the Nano, download a copy of Copypod or something similar, retrieve the music, get it in to your iTunes library and maintain that so that any iPod only ever has a copy of the what's in your library.

HTH

Sorry Mav.. I've done it many times and what I say will work. As always you don't always need to download extra stuff. Google it and you will find the answer... I repeat this works from Windows, not from MAC

 

[richie]

And as for protecting the music... Its his ferkin Nano he wants to get the music from in the first place.

Ferkin Itunes....

 

[Mav]

And as for protecting the music... Its his ferkin Nano he wants to get the music from in the first place.

Ferkin Itunes....

I agree with your point - you should be able to get your own music back

As to your point about it working - whenever I've looked in to the hard drive of my iPod I could never see the music, just a bunch of files that don't like like tracks. Are you suggesting to just copy the directories and iTunes will work it's 'magic'?

 

[Trippy]

I have found them now and just need to work out how to copy all those files to my hard drive.

I'm not very good with computers as you might have guessed

 

[Mav]

If you found them - hit Ctrl A to select all the files, then Ctrl C to copy them. Then find somewhere on your hard drive, then hit Ctrl V and they will move there

 

[richie]

I agree with your point - you should be able to get your own music back

As to your point about it working - whenever I've looked in to the hard drive of my iPod I could never see the music, just a bunch of files that don't like like tracks. Are you suggesting to just copy the directories and iTunes will work it's 'magic'?

No you have to show hidden files first... Dont think I mentioned that

Then unprotect.

There is a folder full of music all seperated into different folders titled fo?? Ituns splits albums up into different folders so you just copy all the F0 folders into a temp folder on your own HD then import the music into your Itunes where it sorts them out...

So to recap... In itunes music on your HD all albums and artists are nicely sorted and stored wheras on the Ipod they are mixed up. Therefore you need to copy the whole IPOD. (meaning all the F0 folder)

Sorry BTW if I sounded a bit aggresive in my reply earlier. The bottom dollar with windows is the more programs you install the more charged gets your regit file and then in turn the slower your machine works.

Try it sometime, it does not take long...

Last point, within Itunes turn off auto sync Ipods and just do drag and drop of the folders you need. Much easier and quicker nd avoids losing stuff on the Ipod which is not on your machine...

As much as I dislike Itunes, its still the program I use...

So now can someone tell me how to import some films into Itunes that only work with VLC???? Cheers.

 

[Trippy]

I opened a new folder on my desktop and put them in there to transfer to itunes and hey it's worked, thank you so much

 

[AndyT]

I opened a new folder on my desktop and put them in there to transfer to itunes and hey it's worked, thank you so much

Your lad did the correct thig first - getting rid of his I-Pod, I sold mine as it drove me daft, I-Tunes is the root of all evil......

By the way if you download mediMonkey you can drag and drop tunes from or to your ipod quite esily but seems like you have done it anyway.

 

[Redboots]

So now can someone tell me how to import some films into Itunes that only work with VLC????

Are they .vlc files? Try renaming them to mp4 and then uploading/syncing.

John

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

at last....someone said the right thing

Your lad did the correct thig first - getting rid of his I-Pod, I sold mine as it drove me daft, I-Tunes is the root of all evil......

By the way if you download mediMonkey you can drag and drop tunes from or to your ipod quite esily but seems like you have done it anyway.