How to move songs from Ipod to Itunes? Hard Drive Crashed.

Question

my hard drive crashed on my computer with all my itunes music. now i have a new hard drive, and all my music files are on my ipod. However, I'm not sure how to move the files from my ipod to my computer. Please help before I lose all my songs, photos, album art, etc!

Answer 1

i don't think you can because ipods  is in your mirror whatever is in your itunes on the comouter so if you plug it up and nothings on there then it will erase all that's on your ipod with nothing. and i don't see how you could transfer info without plugging it up. so no i don't think it can be done sorry :(

Answer 2

download iDump. it takes all your songs, videos, everything else and transfers it to your new itunes.

Answer 3

well if u have not redownloaded itunes yet, plug in ur ipod to ur pc and use it like a flash drive and send them to ur music folder. if u d/l itunes and do this it will wipe out ur ipod and it will be empty. then u have problems.

Answer 4

Did a quick search and I came up with this http://www.ipod-computer.com/. I've used something else in the past (don't remember what it was), but this should work fine, too.

Answer 5

www.ipod-computer.com is the most effective program offered. Good luck!

Answer 6

this method only works on windows xp and on some vistas.

#1 Plug in your iPod.

# 2 From the Desktop, go to My Computer and find the iPod (usually designated by a drive letter. i e. E: or F:)

# 3 Open the folder.

# 4 Go to Tools > Folder Options > View (the tab) > scroll to Show Hidden Files and Folders and click it.

# 5 Click OK

# 6 Go back to your iPod folder/drive, there you will find a new folder called iPod_Control

# 7 Open it.

# 8 The Music folder in it will have a bunch of folders named F00, F01 and so on. THEY HAVE YOUR MP3s. Look through the folders to find your stuff.

#9 drag back into itunes or left click,open with itunes.whichever.dragging it may not always work so copy the  file and paste it.

or use this:http://www.imtoo.com/ipod-computer-trans...

or if you have a mac:http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ip...

Answer 7

It is easy and u can use a third party software to transfer songs from iPod to the computer. I use Imtoo iPOD computer transfer. It will extract songs, videos and photos out to your computer.

You can find the software on my blog at hup://www.pspmyspace.com

Answer 8

there are a lot of programs out there, as people have listed.  

i recommend doing a search in your favorite search engine *cough* google...and try to find a review of different programs to find which is best for you.  besides, an organized review from like cnet or something means someone tested it before you.

some programs might even make you pay, but that isn't always a bad thing as they are cheap and usually much more user friendly.

Answer 9

ok i have a very simple way if you have Itunes open it then plug in your ipod go to my computer and click your ipod now go to organize Folder and search options, then to View Hidden files and folders and click show all hidden flies now a folder will show up called ipod control then drag all those folders to your itunes library and itunes will automatically name them and its that easy