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Moving music from iPod to iTunes library

Feb 13, 2010 12:15AM PST

I downloaded 10 gigs of music from my iTunes library to my iPod. I subsequently erased the files from
iTunes. Now I want to transfer the music on my iPod back to my iTunes library. Is there a way to do this?
I'm running OS X Snow Leopard.

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I guess it would depend.
Feb 13, 2010 5:05AM PST

If the music originated from your computer itself (Not from the iTunes store) what you can essentially do is plug in your iPod and open it manually like a mini storage device. There should be an option in iTunes allowing you to manage the files manually in which case you can actually open it up like a separate drive when it is plugged in and draw all the music from the folders inside. However, the slight downside is that the actual files themselves will be located in organized subfolders(f01,f02...f44) with file names of 5-6 characters (If I remember correctly), so actually finding out which song is which will pose a slight challenge (visually). What you can do to somewhat solve this problem is using all these newly copied folders from your iPod, placing them into new desired spot, importing them onto iTunes; most, if not all the names should be visible and exactly the same way they were recorded onto the iPod in iTunes. If by chance you want to locate a particular song to delete or edit you can simply right click and ask to search in windows explorer and Ta Da! you get a location of where that song is.

This for me has worked on my old XP in which my first (and just recently) and second external drives containing 40~Gbs of music have now gone down the toilet. So once again i'm stuck having to open the ol' iPod to get back all my music again. T_T

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Try iRip
Feb 14, 2010 6:03AM PST

it's free and will do what you want, easily


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