So my harddrive crashed and took with it all my music. Fortunately most of it was backed up on my ipod, but now i can't put said music back onto my new drive. How would I go about ripping the data from my ipod and uploading it to my laptop?

12/18/2006 3:53:56 PM

open it in windows explorer as an external drive, right click the properties and set to view hidden files, find the mp3s and move them onto your computer. when putting them into itunes, set the option to organize the mp3s which will name them all nicely.

12/18/2006 3:57:32 PM

/thread

12/18/2006 4:06:22 PM

When I got my new computer I just downloaded CopyPod from download.com. Took like 2 minutes and even kept all my playlist, etc.

12/18/2006 4:06:43 PM

rudeboy, yer mah hero.

12/18/2006 4:15:56 PM

^ search would have helped too

12/18/2006 4:26:48 PM

SharePod is also a nice program if you just want to put songs (or take them off) your iPod and the computer you are using does not have iTunes as the programs runs off your iPod.

http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Section=iPod+Programs&Page=SharePod

[Edited on December 18, 2006 at 4:28 PM. Reason : runs off the iPod itself]

12/18/2006 4:27:35 PM

hey, maybe you can save yourself the trouble next time with a backup, huh?

valuable stuff deserves a backup measure. Music is valuable, especially when you're playin' ball and doin' the iTunes thing. Do yourself a favor and save some $$ on music tracks and buy a backup HDD with some Retrospect software. Back up in less than an hour after losing everything. Truth.

12/18/2006 7:20:11 PM

Does rudeboy's procedure work if i want to transfer all my songs off my old 15GB to a new 30GB ?? i tried sharepod but it wouldn't transfer ALL of my songs. it only took about 1500 songs and put them on my computer. i want all em, all 3000 that's why i put them on there

3/6/2007 9:27:43 PM

Quote :

"open it in windows explorer as an external drive, right click the properties and set to view hidden files, find the mp3s and move them onto your computer. when putting them into itunes, set the option to organize the mp3s which will name them all nicely."

doesn't that come up with names like sjhf.mp3 and ujcw.mp3???

use a program called EphPod.

3/6/2007 10:43:29 PM

all my mp3 showed up in disorganized folders when i tried to file transfer through explorer. i also just tried CopyPod, but that shit only transferred 100 songs and then it told me to buy the software. f that. i have over 3000 songs, i'm not trying to do that 30 times. does ephpod cost anything (i'm cheap) or does it do it in increments?

am i forgetting anything?

3/6/2007 10:51:22 PM

winamp will pull the music off your iPod

3/6/2007 11:57:45 PM

ephpod ftw

3/7/2007 8:32:57 AM

doesnt itunes 7 let you transfer music fro the ipod back to the computer? liek if you add a song elsewhere on the ipod, then gohome and sync, itll let you transfer to the computer.?

DAS WHAT I HERRRRRRRD.

3/7/2007 3:03:14 PM

i never could get ephpod to work. it always crashed

3/7/2007 4:16:17 PM

EphPod is free and works for me.

^^ No iTunes doesn't let you do that. Syncing is in one direction only. The onlt iPod to iTunes syncing is your on-the-go playlists and song ratings that you make/give on the iPod.

3/7/2007 7:45:43 PM

were you able to pull your music off with ephpod and keep it organized by artist, album, track name, etc...??

3/8/2007 12:07:26 AM

didn't itunes already add a feature to transfer music to and from the ipod?

3/8/2007 4:02:59 AM

Quote :

"No iTunes doesn't let you do that. Syncing is in one direction only. The onlt iPod to iTunes syncing is your on-the-go playlists and song ratings that you make/give on the iPod. "

damn and it was just two posts before you

[Edited on March 8, 2007 at 8:11 AM. Reason : .]

3/8/2007 8:10:41 AM

http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/

3/9/2007 11:09:17 AM

FUCK APPLE

3/9/2007 11:31:21 AM

FUCK STATE409C

3/9/2007 3:22:24 PM

Well the problem I've run in to is that I originally uploaded songs on one computer, then uploaded more songs on another computer and tried to download what was stored from C1 on my iPOD and got an error that you can only sync to one computer - so if you transfer it, it overwrites what you have.

So I guess you can't download

3/9/2007 5:40:17 PM

Copying from Windows Explorer will yield in strange filenames and folders, but the ID3 tags of the actual files should remain untouched. Just reimport them into itunes or whatever and they should come up just fine.

3/9/2007 6:30:22 PM

^^ you can with xplay

It will let you browse your files in a windows explorer format (copy, move, paste etc )

3/10/2007 2:33:29 AM

Quote :

"hey, maybe you can save yourself the trouble next time with a backup, huh? valuable stuff deserves a backup measure. Music is valuable, especially when you're playin' ball and doin' the iTunes thing. Do yourself a favor and save some $$ on music tracks and buy a backup HDD with some Retrospect software. Back up in less than an hour after losing everything. Truth."

Considering how potentially easy it is to get the music back off the ipod this suggestion is overkill. You've already spent the money on an ipod which itself is an external hard drive. If you wanted to spend money for backup software or find free software you could just as easily pay for ipod restore software or find free software.

3/10/2007 3:01:31 PM