How To Transfer Music From iPod to iTunes
Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by Gisela Batterton in Music
While it’s very common to download music from CDs or the iTunes Store from your computer to your iPod, many people would also like to transfer their music from their iPod back to their computer. Unfortunately Apple decided that iTunes shouldnt help with this, even though Apple should have known this would be an important feature.
Some believe that Apple is intentionally trying to prevent songs from being taken illegally. Imagine that you purchase a new computer, install iTunes, and attempt to transfer songs from your iPod to that new computer. What is it about this process that is unjust or crooked?
Therefore, transferring songs from your iPod to your laptop or your computer at work is probably out of the question as well.
The default settings of iTunes will transfer the iTunes library on your new computer to your iPod. These settings will wipe out the library on your iPod, along with any music you have stored on it, and use the new, empty iTunes library. This is troublesome!
It’s not very difficult to figure out how to prevent this from happening. You need to choose ‘no’ when you’re asked if you want to ‘auto-sync’ your iTunes and your iPod.
To transfer music from your iPod back to your computer, a complicated series of steps is necessary, from deleting files from your iTunes folder, revealing hidden files, copying the iPod Control folder, creating a new folder and putting your songs somewhere else for safety. It’s even more complicated than that, but you see the idea.
To avoid this very aggravating scenario or the complicated process necessary to avoid losing all of your music, third party vendors intervened and established some very helpful software.
Three programs that were created to aid you in easily transferring your iPod music to your iTunes library are iPod 2 iTunes, PodMaxx, and Tune Tools.
You can also copy playlists and videos to your computer from your iPod, for a small cost. Each of these programs includes features that iTunes hasn’t yet included in their own software. These programs cost around $25 to $30, which is much cheaper than finding that your iPod library has been deleted!
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