How to put music from ipod unto computer.

Question

OK here is the deal, I didn't have a computer for a long time so I had my friend put all his music on my ipod. Now that I have a computer I would like to put all of his music unto my computer where I can simply delete the songs that i don't like and add new ones, how would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

you can easily copy back the video, music and song library from iPod on a Windows PC by following steps:

   1. Insert your iPod to a Windows PC USB or FireWire port. (PC should runs Windows XP or other Windows operating system).

   2. If your Windows PC still doesn’t have iTunes installed, skip this step. If iTunes is already installed and prompt a message on whether if you’d like to associate this iPod with this computer and deleting its content, click No. Or else you will lose your only copy of library on iTunes. Beside, ensure that ‘Enable Disk Use’ is selected.

   3. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer, the iPod should be automatically detected as a portable hard drive.

   4. Click on the iPod icon or the iPod portable hard drive letter to open the contents of the drive.

   5. If you don’t see a folder called “iPod Control”, it’s hidden and invisible. To unhidden it so that it’s visible, go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View, and then check (enable) the option “Show hidden files and folders.”

   6. Open the “iPod Control” folder, and then the Music folder.

   7. The Music folder contains the iPod’s music and videos, divided into folders. Copy the library to local computer hard drive’s My Music folder.

   8. The files copied have unintelligible four-letter file names. To reveal the names of the songs and other data tags, add the files to the Windows Media Player or iTunes libraries or switch to “Tiles” view in Windows Explorer.

   9. Rename the file if necessary.

Beside above manual ways to copy and transfer song library from iPod to computer, or import into iTunes, there are several third party program or more commonly called iPod Manager that has the iPod copying function such as SharePod (freeware) or PodPlus (shareware).

Similarly, in Macintosh running MacOS X or MacOS 9, it’s harder to show hidden files and folders. So these third party utilities with iPod copying will be useful to transfer files and music from iPod to PC’s hard disk and iTunes library.

For MacOS X, try Broken Helix and Rob’s iPod Exporter. For MacOS 9, try escapePod and iProber. Other iPod Manager or iPod song transfer utility for Mac include Senuti, iPodRid, iPod.iTunes and PodWorks. For Linux, try GUIPod. PodUtil will be able to works on both Windows and Mac platform.

The transferred music will be playable without any restrictions if the songs are ripped from CDs. If the songs or videos are bought from the iTunes music store, they will play in iTunes after you have “authorize” the computer. To authorize, try playing a purchased file. It will prompt you for your iTunes username and password. Up to five computers can be authorized at any one time.

Answer 2

just drag the songs onto the desktop

Answer 3

download iTunes. its free.

and from iTunes you can delete songs and buy more to add.

Answer 4

Plug your iPod into the computer and it'll ask you if you want to add the music on your iPod onto that computer. Just click that button. :)

Answer 5

You need third party software to help you copy music from iPod back to comptuer, because iTunes couldn't help you do that. I have been using this iPod transfer to copy my iPod files back to computer for a long time, it works really nice for me. Here is a step by step guide about how to copy songs from iPod to PC

http://www.top5soft.com/tutorial/how-to-...

If you still have problem, feel free to contact me.

Answer 6

you will need to have a 3rd party tool to help you copy songs in your ipod to computer as itunes blocks the ipod-to-computer transfer, here is a review of top 5 ipod  copying softwares(windows/mac): http://www.ipodtocomputer.net

Answer 7

iTunes: To add music on your iPod

iPod Music Liberator (3rd Party program): to extract music from iPod to PC

Answer 8

you connect the cord that comes with it

Answer 9

senuti

http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/

Answer 10

use the stupid cord and lime wire is always good

Answer 11

You need a dvd video converter.

Get it at totosoft.net

Cucusoft Ultimate Converter Suite converts all the media file to play on almost any portable device including iPod, iPod touch, iPod video nano, iPhone, Zune, PSP, video capable MP3 players, video capable mobile phones, and Pocket P.C., etc.  Meanwhile, it can also support output almost any audio/video format including Video format(H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, flv, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc.) and Audio format(AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, WMA, etc.).

There is a similar question here,you can check the answer,hope it helps.

　

If i rent a movie from iTunes can i put it on my iPod?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=2...

Answer 12

plug your Ipod into the computer...it should come with the cord and you should be able to have your own Itunes membership all free with it . It works easily.

Answer 13

use usb capable sync the device and drag and  drop

you will figure it out once u play aroudn with it =]

Answer 14

You can;t you need to buy this special program, i'm not sure what it is called but if you google it you could find it.

Hope it helped.

Answer 15

Put the music from his computer on cds and then import them into itunes on your computer

Answer 16

You can try this software to backup songs, videos, photos in iPod to PC, copy iPod songs, videos, photos to new ipod, computer or notebook.

http://www.dvd-video-converters.com/ipod...

Answer 17

You cannot unless you have enabled disk use and have copied the files through its storage function instead of itunes.  If you listen to all of your music on your ipod then you probably cannot copy the music.  In fact, it will try to erase your current library to create a new one for your new computer.

Answer 18

Alright. First suggestion; get iDump. It's a free program that lets you take music from an iPod or other mp3 player and put it on your computer.

http://www.download.com/iDump/3000-2169_...

There's the link to download it with :D

You would hit Control (Ctrl) and A (for all) at the same time and it should select all your music.  

In the top right-hand corner of the program there's a button called "Start Copy". Once all of your files are selected, hit start copy and they'll go to your My Music or My Documents file.

Hope it helped :)

Answer 19

iDump

Answer 20

Use itunes, read manual  

Answer 21

You can either try what lifehacker suggests without a program, the first link or you'll have to find a program for it using the second link.  Lifehacker has a lot of good ways for whatever computer and system you have and whatever ipod you have.  good luck!