Transfer Music From Your iPod to A PC
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There are plenty of reasons you might want to transfer music tracks from an iPod to your PC. If your hard drive fails, your iPod may be your only backup. If you purchase tracks from iTunes Music Store, Apple explicitly permits transferring those files to up to 5 computers. You may want to transfer your music library from your iPod to the new computer you just purchased instead of hassling with networking two machines. Instead of easily facilitating transfer of music from an iPod to a PC, Apple takes the more paranoid approach, assuming anyone who might want to transfer songs from their iPod is a thief. The file transfer process is obscured, requiring a number of convoluted steps to extract songs from an iPod without the assistance of third-party software. Fortunately many developers answered this need and have created tools making it easy for anyone to transfer their music from an iPod to a PC or Mac, without any frustrating steps and without the potential for corrupting the song library and wiping out everything on your iPod. Read on for some tricks designed to make transferring songs from your iPod to a PC a breeze.
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Benny Leitner
March 29th, 2007
at 8:57am
I have a Ipod Video 80gb and are considering purchasing your software to backup the ipod onto etc.
Before doing so I would like to clarify something with you.
The songs titles etc that I have on my Ipod are in Hebrew Writing. I have purchased from Apple Israel the software to download IpodHE, however this will not covert the titles into Hebrew unless they are imported with Hebrew script.
Does your program enable me to use a Hebrew Font (which I could import if necessary) so that all titles etc will be readable in Hebrew on your program
samuel
August 15th, 2007
at 2:56am
NO NO NO NO NO ALL OF US IPOD OWNERS ARE TRYING TO BE TRICKED IN A CHEAP MARKETING TRICK REALLY REALLY CHEAP IF YOU ASK ME DONT BUY THE SOFTWARE THAT RIPS MUSIC FROM YOUR IPOD IT IS SOOOOOOO EASY TO DO IT THAT I FEEL THE DUMBEST PERSON ALIVE FOR NOT HAVING IT FIGURED OUT BEFORE THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO DO IS
1. CONNECT YOUR IPOD TO THE PC
2. GO TO MY PC AND ENTER “IPOD” LIKE IN DISK MODE
3. ON TOP OF YOUR SCREEN JUST CLICK TOOLS, THEN GO TO FOLDER OPTIONS, THEN CLICK ON VIEW, THEN YOU JUST HAVE TO CHECK WHERE IT SAYS SHOW ALL HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS AND THEN THE HIDDEN MUSIC FOLDER WILL APPEAR IT IS SO EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT DOWNLOAD MORE SOFTWARE I AM SHOWING YOU HOW TO DO IT FOR FREE DOIT DO IT LETS ALL TOGETHER MAKE THOSE CHEAP COMPANIES GO TO BANKRUPT FOR TRYING TO TAKE OUR MONEY
Tonio
October 20th, 2007
at 9:36am
WOW DAMN SHYZZZZ!!!!!
IT IS TRUE, A CHEAP TRICK, THE FILES ARE SIMPLY HIDDEN FILES!!!!!
Gilberto
November 22nd, 2007
at 7:17pm
want to copy the music from my ipod mini to my pc
Marc
December 15th, 2007
at 12:23pm
Doesn’t Work For vista
Jai
December 25th, 2007
at 9:10pm
This is awesome. Thanks a lot Dude. Samuel.
I tried this myself and this works. This cheap just file copying softwares is a big trick to get trojans in PC’s. Then one day you have to recover the PC by resetting the hard drive. Thanks a lot.
Cassandra
January 21st, 2008
at 2:31pm
This soooooo works! My iPod Mini (4gig) is rather old (like nearly 4 years) and when I first got it, I had dowloaded music from my parent’s computer… and then I got my new computer and put new files etc — but could never get the OLD MUSIC (all the good stuff) off of it before now. This so works! Yay!!
Anne
March 1st, 2008
at 3:10am
How do you make this work for vista office? I have my old computer with all of my music that I have also on my ipod. Now I want to transfer the music to my new computer.
john
May 19th, 2008
at 8:06pm
This works but there’s nothing free about it. You can only transfer 1 song with the free download. You have to pay $20 to get the pro. not worth it…
benito_alexander
May 24th, 2008
at 12:14pm
does work for vista
elen
June 3rd, 2008
at 1:59pm
Dud this thing is F*&%ing awsome…thanks it worked great
Meredith
June 23rd, 2008
at 6:25pm
It isn’t working for me :( I have Windows XP, does that make a difference? I want my old music!!
Michaelll
June 24th, 2008
at 9:11pm
I have a apple formated ipod 20 gig and want to put the music from it to my PC but am having megggggga trubble can anyone help me???????????????
Carolyn
August 1st, 2008
at 8:57am
Samuel, you are a genius. I want to give you a hug via the internet. I thought I would have to buy one of those stupid iPod transfers, but thanks to you, all 2363 song on my iPod can be transfered for free! Thank you so so SOOO much!
Dunk
August 4th, 2008
at 4:51am
Oh wow! I’d almost given up hope before I saw this! Thank you very much!
=D
Asle
August 4th, 2008
at 12:20pm
Samuel, you are a god among men. 2 years I have been trying to extract the music from my old ipod…today you have solved that problem. I thank you. Cheers to you.
joanna
August 10th, 2008
at 9:42pm
i don’t understand computers very well, could someone explain what samuel’s step #2 means by “enter ‘ipod’ like in disk mode”? how do i do that?
Felipe
August 19th, 2008
at 6:40am
SAMUEL…THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE, IT WORKED WELL IN MY WYNDOWS XP. MY QUESTION IS THIS:
WHEN I GO TO THE IPOD FOLDERS, THERE IS THE MUSIC FOLDER AND THEN INSIDE THERE ARE MANY FOLDER LIKE F00 TO F25, EACH HAVING A PICE OF THE TOTAL MP3. SO FAR SO GOOD, BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY HAVE STRANGE NAMES (FTDF.MP3 FOR EXAMPLE) EVEN THOUGH I CAN SEE THEY CARRY THE REAL NAME WHEN I TAKE A LOOK AT PROPERTIES. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE ALL THE MP3 TO GET BACK THEIR REAL NAMES?? AND ONE MORE…MY IPOD HAS PHOTOS BUT I COULD NOT FIND THEM ANYWHERE IN THE FOLDERS…DO YOU KNOW WHY?
THANKS A LOT
FELIPE
kevin
August 27th, 2008
at 8:45am
thanks but where does the songs go in computer i dont have itunes
molly jay
August 31st, 2008
at 10:50am
i have to say,
this is the first time ive seen someone post a solution like this.
haha.
i feel silly for never thinking of it.
and it does work!!
if your running vista:
go to computer, open the ipod drive (f:), under organize go to folder and search options, click view then show hidden folders, the folder ipod music control will come up!
thank you so much!
Liz
September 24th, 2008
at 4:37pm
I did this, I am not a computer whiz, I still can’t figure it out. Might you be able to provide more detail for those more computer challanged? I can see the new music in my itunes library but as soon as I disconnect my ipod it goes away. Somehow I need to move it into my itunes library?
MARTYN
October 1st, 2008
at 9:07am
SOUNDS GREAT, BUT I HAVE LAPTOP ON VISTA AND IT DONT HAVE A `MY PC`? PLEASE HELP, KNOW IM NOT VERY GOOD!! MARTYN
Orlando
October 10th, 2008
at 10:58am
My laptop was stolen. I have a new computer and will like to find a way of downloading music from my ipod (from other sources other than itunes).
iPod Transfer
October 23rd, 2008
at 6:54pm
iPod Transfer, as a professional ipod to pc transfer software program, is an easy-to-use transfer which can quickly transfer music from ipod to computer. Moreover, your favorite videos, photos, playlists and more contents on iPod are all supported to backup.