Copy or Transfer Music and Songs from iPod to PC and Computer without iTunes
To protect the copyrights of the songs, musics and videos stored on iPod and reduce piracy, Apple has make it difficult to copy or transfer the songs, musics, audio, videos and files that stored on iPod to personal computer (PC) or laptop notebook computer, by scrambling the file names of the songs on the iPod and telling the operating system that the files should be invisible to normal users, without any encryption involved in this iPod anti-copying mechanism.
iTunes allows only one-way synchronization of musics from computer to iPod, so if for whatever reasons such as need to reload your library on local hard disk due to desktop hard disk failure or buying new computer, you can easily copy back the video, music and song library from iPod on a Windows PC by following steps:
- Insert your iPod to a Windows PC USB or FireWire port. (PC should runs Windows XP or other Windows operating system).
- 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.
- Open My Computer or Windows Explorer, the iPod should be automatically detected as a portable hard drive.
- Click on the iPod icon or the iPod portable hard drive letter to open the contents of the drive.
- 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.”
- Open the “iPod Control” folder, and then the Music folder.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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November 22nd, 2009 10:45
thanks for you help!
November 16th, 2009 11:02
all the steps worked for me till i try clicking on ipod controls then it tells me to choose a program to open it, what program do i use to open it??
November 13th, 2009 13:43
just click on show hidden folders then it will say sumtin bout sub folders nd put yes then the IPOD CONTROL folder will apear then right cick on it and go to properties then it says HIDDEN at the bottom and theres a check UNCHECK itthen click OK the just make a copy on to the MUSIC section on your computer then go go itunes and yeah read the directions the guy wrote nd take it from there HOPE I HELPED
November 13th, 2009 13:37
If you cant find TOOLS go to were it says ORGANIZE ant then PROPERTIES and then you can take it from there
November 8th, 2009 05:25
you failed at telling us where ‘tools’ was. fail.
November 4th, 2009 12:07
This does not work. I have ipod connected, and folder options are set to ’show hidden files and folders’ but the folders (calendars, contacts, ipod_control, photos) do not exist on my ipod. yes I have a lot of music on my ipod and it works just fine, but the folders you are talking about are not there.
November 1st, 2009 09:16
I’m running windows 7 and just did this. It worked and the files were transferred, but I can’t get the real file names (songs/artists) to show up even after switching to tiles view. I’m also having trouble transferring the folder to itunes. Anybody else having these problems?
October 31st, 2009 03:27
yes, this does work for windows vista
it’s harder to find the tools box with vista
i can’t remeber how i managed to unhide the folders
have done all that but can’t seem to actualy put the songs onto itunes?!
any help?!
October 26th, 2009 13:55
you forgot a step or Im just lost. If I cant see the music, where do I go fo the step:Tools -> Folder Options -> View,
October 20th, 2009 23:17
just 1 question does this also work for vista processors?
October 15th, 2009 09:40
Thank you so much! Our computer had to have it’s hard drive restarted to the basic form so I lost everything, but this was amazing! Now I don’t have to spend hours uploading all of my cds again! Thanks again
October 13th, 2009 01:56
this is perfect! your instructions are simple, clear & easy to follow even for a layman. I’m euphoric !
September 30th, 2009 02:50
Awesome!!! thanks….
September 28th, 2009 18:27
You have saved my musical LIFE! My xternal h’drive died on me. This was soooooooooo easy!!! For those having probs…..just click on ‘my computer’ then choose your Ipod then ‘organise’ then ‘folder and search options’ then ‘view’ look down to where it says “Hidden files and Folders” and make sure you have “Show hidden files and folders” ticked.
Then click OK and go back to your Ipod window and it should have “Ipod control”.
September 28th, 2009 06:07
This way might take a while, if you have itunes you kinda need it, i dont know but go to computer/my computer and click on your ipod icon thing. Go to your search box and search a,b,c,etc. every letter of the alphabet and each letter there should be something with an itunes music icon and it has 4 letter names and if you double click on those it plays the song and tells you the name on the song player. =DDDDD
September 25th, 2009 09:53
Excuse me…..i cannot find tools after i click the ipod icon…can somebody please help me out??
September 24th, 2009 07:20
i did all the steps ( i have vista and a first generation ipod touch ), but the ‘ipod control’ folder still does not show up
September 22nd, 2009 13:51
worked awsome thanks
September 22nd, 2009 10:48
hi dude thks for the post, it had helped me a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 18th, 2009 16:24
OH MY GOD YOU ARE A LIFESAVER!!!!
September 11th, 2009 18:03
Trick doesn’t work on my PC.
I use CopyTrans Manager instead.
September 11th, 2009 00:42
Great help thanks, really easy to follow walk through. Just one thing i would like to add for users who aren’t sure: There isn’t a tools option on vista pc’s so just look under organize and folder and search options.
Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!
September 9th, 2009 10:55
Thanx, Worked Perfectly!
Thankyou!
So Smart!
I am so glad that I Now have all my Ipod Music!
September 5th, 2009 12:10
SOLUTIONS TO SOME PROBLEMS ON VISTA
thanks, i couldn’t get it to work at first, but i found if you leave the option up when you first plug in your ipod, and itunes asks if you want to transfer music lib, just keep that window up, don’t answer it yet, and then bring up my computer and the ipod is there,
and i was also having trouble finding TOOLs, so i typed “folder options” into the start search when you click the four colored Windows logo in bottom left, it brings up that menu at the top of this box, the rest is pretty much taken care of
September 3rd, 2009 19:54
ALternatively, if you cannot find the ‘tools’ option, it’s easy to search for the folder ‘ipod control’ and select the option to show hidden files and folders and it should come up.
This is brilliant, thankyou so much!
September 3rd, 2009 11:55
Thank you very very much! it worked perfectly!
September 1st, 2009 08:07
For those of you who can’t find the “tools” button:
Go to start -> control panel -> Classic view -> Folder options. Then you can go to show hidden files. Hope this helps the vista users!
September 1st, 2009 01:41
Diolch yn fawr! (Thanks!)
August 31st, 2009 02:16
THANK YOUU!!!!!!!!!!!! you surely are the best! <3
August 30th, 2009 08:53
THANK YOU SOO MUCH!
and guys, if it doesnt show up after you enable the “show hidden files” thingie, just unplug it and replug it. if itunes pops up tho, it automatically closes my computer.
so to fix that, open itunes and have your ipod in, then under your ipod “summary” it has like four check boxes, and one is automatically open itunes when ipod is connected. just uncheck that and click apply or whatever the button is.
again thank you soooo much
August 27th, 2009 14:30
dude i transfered everything but now i cant play any of the songs cuz it says it cant locate the files for them what do i do??
August 24th, 2009 05:08
thnks alot dude really helped move my music back to my pc
August 23rd, 2009 00:13
Oh no!
When I connect my ipod it dosent recognise it as a hard drive and dosent come up! What should I do!?
August 20th, 2009 11:27
when i plug any ipod in, itunes opens up automatically.
how do i make that not happen ?
help.. please
August 19th, 2009 04:06
Thank you soooooooooo much, my computer crashed and i had over 500 songs and videos and now their all back, my life is saved.
August 17th, 2009 21:39
I am sad.. ): I got as far as the “go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View, and then check (enable) the option “Show hidden files and folders.” it just wouldn’t show up..saddd
August 16th, 2009 11:23
dude!!!!!!!! where is tools at????
August 16th, 2009 07:17
I did everything up here and it worked pretty good, ive got all the songs (tons) into the “my music” folder the only problem is my Itunes will not put these songs into my itunes library for some stupid reason… i have tried everything. Anyone have an ideas?
August 15th, 2009 10:44
I was extremely frustrated at not being able to import songs they were not originally purcahsed from iTunes store off my iPod. All the instructions I found said I had to go back to my original computer and change some setting and re-sync. Well that’s great, except the reason I need to resync with a new computer is my old one died. I finally found MediaWidget and it imported everything off my iPod into iTunes. Brilliant. Why doesn’t Apple have this functionality in iTunes already. So annoying. (PS I have a iPod Nano current version 2009 and am using Windows Vista)
August 15th, 2009 07:28
Hey man, many thanks for you straight from Brazil. Helped me a lot recovering my Ipod library with such easy . Just let me know whenever you post Ipod tricks/stuff.
August 14th, 2009 18:15
I havn’t tried it yet, but if it works… XD
August 14th, 2009 06:45
OMG thanks, that is amazing, i couldnt believe it, transfered all my music now
:D:D cheers
August 14th, 2009 03:15
Muchas gracias por tu articulo, fue de mucha ayuda, para recuperar mi musica.
August 13th, 2009 06:42
Thank you so much for putting this up! It is very easy to follow unlike other sites (:
August 12th, 2009 09:14
OMG U ARE AWESOME!!!! I Love you!!!
August 10th, 2009 22:38
thank you VERY VERY much this is amazing.!
August 8th, 2009 18:52
THANK YOU SO MUCH
this has meant an additional 5000+ songs have been added to my itunes
you are amazing
August 7th, 2009 02:29
I have a 1st gen Nano – my comp says that I have to format it? any way to get around this since is says it will delete all files on the nano?
August 6th, 2009 04:23
were abouts is tools exactly i cant find it can someone explain where i have to go ?
August 4th, 2009 18:08
OMG THIS WORKED!!!!! I WAS DREADING HAVING TO CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC THAT I CURRENTLY HAVE. NOT THAT IT’S BAD, BUT I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO ADD MORE AND THIS SERIOUSLY WORKED!!!!!!! OMG, I OWE YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
July 31st, 2009 11:28
awsome thanks so much i’ve been seraching everywhere.
July 27th, 2009 04:03
Thank You thank you thank you!!! life saver!!
July 23rd, 2009 16:29
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July 23rd, 2009 15:00
Thank you SO much! My computer crashed and I lost all of my music, so this is a lifesaver!
July 22nd, 2009 03:24
this works with vista too…… thank you.
July 20th, 2009 12:27
u are a life saver thanks times a billion
July 16th, 2009 01:32
awesome very very thank you
July 12th, 2009 04:20
As a Computer Security Specialist, I would like to tell you that You’re an Intelligent Computer SP! Respect! Not everybody knows about your solution though!
Take care,
– Isabelle
July 10th, 2009 11:25
You are number 1!! thank you thank you
July 10th, 2009 05:29
I’m selling my ipod and the person who is buying it doesn’t like my type of music, so I wanted to save those songs on my ipod onto my itunes and so far this is working! Thank you!
July 9th, 2009 06:56
Thankyou very much.
This was very helpful!
Most other people say that you require software to do this but you have proven that you dont!
Thankyou!
July 5th, 2009 09:52
i was using a mac pc to craete the music on my ipod and now i want to transfer the music from the ipod to my windows pc.how can i do that ?
July 4th, 2009 10:42
geeeee!! thanks!!! really really thanks!!!!
July 1st, 2009 20:40
Ok I am stuck at the check the ’show hidden files and folders’ when I press the apply button and then ‘OK’ the folder doesn’t appear. I go back into the view section and the button has been unchecked.. how do I keep it checked?
July 1st, 2009 10:22
Holy Monkey Craps it worked! THANK YOU
July 1st, 2009 09:47
it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yayyyyy
June 26th, 2009 20:54
thank u,thank u,thank u.
YOU are a life saver!!!it just saved ALLL of my music and my reputation!!;-)!!
thanks agen,
xoxo~!
June 16th, 2009 22:09
DUDE damn you are the man
June 15th, 2009 08:59
I can’t believe it was that easy! You ROCK!
June 14th, 2009 02:23
all your program did was disable my itunes. Thanks alot. The music is on my computer, and I can listen in windows media player but now I can’t access my itunes or listen to my music that way. I can’t put anything on my ipod now. Your program is crap
June 8th, 2009 21:22
Mine didnt work.. maybe bcuz im using a ipod touch?
June 7th, 2009 00:57
Hey there!! Thanks so much for this article, it saved me so much grief its unbelievable. This simple method is so quick and easy and enabled me to restore over 20gb of music to my computer after it crashed and had to be formatted!
Thanks again, and please keep writing!
June 5th, 2009 09:05
hi, we were in for a long journey and i was wondering how to use my amazing ipod collection while on the drive… you just saved our drive. thanks a ton!
June 3rd, 2009 00:24
thankss soooo much for this article soo help full im using my sisters ipod an i had her music which i wanted to keep an my music i wanted to upload although it deleted the playlists but atlest i got the music
May 26th, 2009 09:30
holy shit this was incredible
May 25th, 2009 05:51
Thank you so much!!! It really works!!
May 24th, 2009 19:30
YHANK YOU SOO FREAKING MUCH!!!
SAVED MY LIFE
!!!
I HAD ABT 500 SONGS IN MY IPOD AND I HAD TO REFORMAT MY PC SO I LOST ALL OF THEM ON D PC….DINT KNW HOW TO GET my songs bk!!!
THANK YOU!!!
May 10th, 2009 06:10
Thank you very much seems to be working like a charm, just lost my HD and was worried I would have to aquire all this music again. Thanks alot!
May 9th, 2009 13:41
i get up to opening the ipod but i cant find where the(Tools -> Folder Options -> View) are pleaseee helppp
May 4th, 2009 21:35
Ok im new. I got a new computer and I used it to rename cryptic 4 letter words songs in ipod control to original songs on my ipod nano. I’d done this before on my old computer and they still worked. Now I did it on my new computer and the renamed songs stopped working. I renamed another one and it stopped working. Then I renamed it back to the original four letter file name and it worked on my ipod again. Great. Now I wish I knew how to change the renamed filenames back to their old four letter names. I tried properties n resests, Itunes, restore, the whole nine yards I got nothing. The only way to make it work again is by changng it back to the original cryptic 4 letter word. PLz help.
April 30th, 2009 03:52
Hi. I’m trying to upload my iPod content to a media player on a website. Is there an EASIER way of doing this without using Zip files.? Isn’t there some kinda drag n drop program somewhere on this internet that would allow me to do this.? If not, WHY not.?!!?
April 28th, 2009 00:36
I LOVE YOU
my home pc crashed, so i ended up re-downloading every one of nearly 1000 songs, then my laptop recently crashed and i lost all my songs again
but then came accross this and it has worked perfectly
thankyou so much
April 23rd, 2009 08:13
I forgot to say that The iPod doesn’t show up on the computer at all unless I enter the passcode, which I can’t…
April 23rd, 2009 08:09
I got a new hard drive, and the only place my music is backed up is my ipod.
The iPod randomly stopped working, and got stuck on a screen that has the USB cable pointing to the itunes icon, and telling you to connect to iTunes.
I connected it, and iTunes says that it can’t use the iPod until I enter the passcode (when you turn it) into the iPod, and i can’t do even that because it’s stuck on the screen that says to connect to iTunes.
That means I can’t use any software, or even this method to get the 2500 songs I have on my iPod.
Help!!! Thanks!
April 23rd, 2009 07:34
Where do I “Enable disk use?” On itunes, ipod?
April 21st, 2009 10:54
omg..I can’t thank u enough..I lost all my music files except those on ipod..
April 13th, 2009 20:54
omg..there’s something wrong with my ipod touch or pc?
because when i plugged it in my pc, my pc read my ipod as a scanner/camera and it only says “Apple ipod” and i can’t view the contents of my ipod. pls help?
April 13th, 2009 01:52
wow, you just saved me!! lol thank you so much
April 12th, 2009 22:33
A million Thanks.
April 4th, 2009 19:07
cheers for this mate, been looking for a way to do this since my hard drive crashed n burned, worked a treat!!
just one note, if any one can’t find the folder options in vista, then click ‘organise’ on the top left then ‘folder & search options’
cheers!
March 29th, 2009 09:36
hey! that really helped me!
but another question… do you know how to upload photos from a ipod to your computer? If you do, can you please tell me?
thanks
March 26th, 2009 11:34
THIZZ REALLY HELPED ME ALOT!!! THANKS!!!
March 26th, 2009 11:33
OMGGG IM HORNY!!!
March 26th, 2009 11:32
WACKKKK!!!1
March 25th, 2009 01:12
wow, this was brilliant. simple, clear, to the point and truthful. iTunes help was practically good for nothing, but I knew I could trust the good ‘ole internet to solve my problem, and this article truly saved the day!
a big thanks also to warren wright, whose little commentary saved me from a frustrating time trying to import hidden files onto Itunes library… now they’re all there and it couldn’t have been easier!
thanks again!
March 23rd, 2009 17:40
Hi
i am tray to connect my ipod nano(4th generation)
in windopw xp but its ask me for restore it
i dont know what i have to do for this …
if i restore then i will ost all my data…
so please help me to treanfer song in my ipod from my harddisk
Thanks
Trushal
March 22nd, 2009 11:46
MEN ! u should be given an award
March 21st, 2009 00:08
thanks so much!you’ve been a lot of help!
March 17th, 2009 02:46
Oh my god . THANK YOU
It worked perfectly .
March 15th, 2009 23:46
thak you. you expLained very i thought i wouLd be stuck downLoading one of those transfer from ipod to itune things .
March 15th, 2009 02:51
Thank you so much…This was really easy and you explain it so great. Did want to have to delete all my songs.
Tks again…
March 14th, 2009 03:12
Thank you so much, oddly enough the Apple person on the phone told me to google copying songs to the computer and I would’ve had to download software to do it. This is amazing!!!!!
March 7th, 2009 15:17
i have windows vista and in my computer folder it just says Apple Ipod.. I NEED HELP PLEASE ASAP
March 4th, 2009 16:09
You’re A G!
March 4th, 2009 03:11
thank u so much!!! computer crashed and really didnt want to lose all the music from my ipod!!!
March 1st, 2009 06:00
i have windows vista but there is no tools option in my computer.Is there any way around it?
March 1st, 2009 00:10
thank you for posting this! it really works and you’ve helped me a LOT!
February 23rd, 2009 20:08
I picked CopyTrans among those quoted in this article and…WOW I don’t regret it at all.
Before using the program, I was worried about transferring my iPod’s content to iTunes but I must admit CopyTrans really saved my bacon steamlessly.
Thanks!
February 18th, 2009 11:06
Thank u soooo much, u totally saved me
February 18th, 2009 07:20
You Are a Genius.!
February 17th, 2009 05:29
hi. I just tried what you said and it worked perfectly. I’ve been trying to transfer music from my ipod to my computer (since I formatted it and lost all my music) and thanks to you now I have
thank you so so so much
February 12th, 2009 03:32
WOW … thank you so much for this info. This even works when you want to merge music from multiple ipods. Awesome tip.. Thanks again.
February 7th, 2009 11:47
omg this is amazing it saves me so much time <3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
February 6th, 2009 23:31
Thank u it worked and i was well surprised. Brilliant would recomend
February 6th, 2009 23:30
BRILLILANT 5*
February 3rd, 2009 03:19
Good Stuff! Worked perfect! Thanks.
February 2nd, 2009 04:05
Great info, but one critical bit was missing. I had to “unhide” the folders before iTunes would import them. First I unhid them one at a time (right mouse button, properties, unchecked “Hide Folder”). Then I figured out that I could hide and then unhide the “iTunes Music” folder and everything in it in order to unhide these folders.
January 27th, 2009 09:41
it worked all the way up to the part where i had to imort it onto iTunes.
im still trying to figure that out
January 18th, 2009 09:06
Worked perfectly! Thank you!
January 16th, 2009 02:06
[...] CopyTrans can come to rescue, especially so if you don’t want to use the manual way to copy and transfer iPod and iPhone music and video to PC, as iTunes does not provide reverse-sync [...]
January 13th, 2009 04:03
Hi there. Just wanted to let you all know that you can go right on the apple website for instructions on how to do this. Since it is from apple, it is probably the safest way to go. I did it last night and it worked perfectly. You will get all of your songs, album covers, play counts, etc! The link is: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329
Good luck!!
January 11th, 2009 11:19
before i try this… does this also get your plays counts, ratings and artwork too?
January 11th, 2009 09:42
that was AWESOME! The instructions were easy to follow and it worked great!
thanks a bunch 
January 9th, 2009 11:11
well im trying to find a site to delete songs of my ipod because whwn ever i try to it just keeps on flashing green and orange.
January 9th, 2009 11:10
This worked great after my PC crashed and my iPod too at one point!!! I’m so happy! Thanks a bunch!
January 7th, 2009 21:59
Hi again – I have worked it out and now have everything where I want it, thanks a million!!
January 7th, 2009 21:03
Hi – I have done everything suggested (I think), but when I try to copy to the itunes library nothing happens
Please help!
January 5th, 2009 05:08
Excellent work folks, thanks very much for that
January 4th, 2009 07:26
I have a two year old I-Pod Classic. Everything is loaded on my laptop computer…My company ownes the laptop and has restricted access to my I-Pod file (tunes, photos, etc.
How do I transfer the complete contents of my I-pod to my desktop? I understand there is (third) 3rd party programs/software that can do this…Can anyone help me or put me in the right direction?
Thanks
January 4th, 2009 06:55
I also have a laptop with Windows Vista and it isn’t even showing that my iPod is connected. Under “Devices with Removable Storage” it doesn’t show my iPod, only the CD I have in my computer. I am so angry and frustrated and if anyone can help me please let me know!
January 3rd, 2009 18:08
Michael
July 20th, 2007 09:24 49
I HAVE VISTA!!!!!!
here’s what you do.
1.) after you plug in your iPod you click on my computer, look for your iPod in “devices with removable storage”.
2.) after u open that u click ‘organize’ in the top left hand corner’ for a drop down menu. then click on folder and search options.
3.)select the tab ‘view’ and in the advanced setting selections. select ’show hidden files and folders.’ click ok.
4.) then follow the same directions as above =)
p.s. if your just wanting to upload music from your iPod to your iTunes, just go through a long process of opening the folders, then ’selecting all’ of the files in the folder and dragging it into itunes music.
You’re my hero since noone else would post how to do this with vista. Thanks XD
January 3rd, 2009 09:53
didnt work i got windows vista on my laptop and i cant get it to even aknowledge my ipod is plugged in
January 2nd, 2009 12:24
Sweet! Thanks for the info! Works perfectly.
December 30th, 2008 11:49
YOUR MY HERO!!!
that was so easy
now tell people how to get dvds on their ipod!!
that would be cool
December 30th, 2008 09:59
Thankyou for that, I lost one ipod by connecting it to my other laptop, now i can reload it with my other ipod’s music, saved the day. Cheers.
December 29th, 2008 12:44
well…thank you very very much!!!
December 29th, 2008 00:23
Fantsticc bit of info, i’ve been sittin for bout two hours trying to work thjis out!!!
December 26th, 2008 09:10
hey…its me again. i just wanted to be the 200th response.
December 26th, 2008 08:59
Thankyou s0o0o0o much! youre a natural genius!
December 26th, 2008 03:43
I have windows vista and a itouch and when i try to uncover hidden files itt wont alow
any help ???
December 22nd, 2008 18:29
Wow….
it is AWESOME!!! I thought ipod is oneway – i mean you can only load the songs to it – never can do the reverse ( from ipod to PC)…
it is simply great!! now i feel my 9GB songs are safe!!!
thanks again…. keep up this good job!!!
December 19th, 2008 18:52
Yes, Debbie, you can transfer what you’ve got on your Nano to your iPod Touch. Just Use this app to transfer all your Nano music to itunes and then sync the second ipod
December 18th, 2008 21:09
I am forever in your debt
December 14th, 2008 02:14
I’m slightly iPod challenged — but learning ! Is it possible to transfer from my Nano to an iPod Touch ?
December 9th, 2008 23:14
I did that and it worked well, but when I goto play my music on another player like Windows, there would onlybe a 4letter code for each song, like JKCH or something like that. Now I have thousands of songs with that code. Is there any software to decode these songs?
December 4th, 2008 21:48
Great!!! Thanks! It a good list you give!
I use CopyTrans and this app Rocks! It even copied my playlists, videos and artworks!!! you could include it!
Five stars man!!!
November 30th, 2008 08:29
AHHH I LOVE THIS ARTICLE!!!
it works;;;it takes a while if u have like 1500 songs to backup but oh man its worth it. the four letters scared me. but once i uploaded it on itunes the names came back. BOOKMARKING THIS!! thnks so much
November 28th, 2008 13:15
I used something called ipod to pc to help me, it also works well and simpe to use.
For Mac users, you’d better use a iPod to PC transfer for Mac
November 26th, 2008 18:00
Thank you for this, works perfectly and its easy to use! Awesome!
November 24th, 2008 23:52
Not works on my computer!! I can not find the iPod control folder. I downloaded ipod to computer sender to get my music back. I’m using the free version, but it works fine.
November 24th, 2008 14:14
you are my hero! for real.
November 15th, 2008 20:27
great! it works! =)
November 10th, 2008 09:26
My computer couldnt detect the ipod removable disk icon, no matter how many time I unplugged the uSB cable and connect it to the computer again. There’s just no J: or G: nor anything of that sort. What do I do?
btw, i’m using ipod touch.
November 6th, 2008 06:23
Thanks .
you’re my life .
(: !
November 3rd, 2008 07:09
Damn, you are the best, you rock, awesome, and everything nice!!!!
Thanks you!!!!!
November 3rd, 2008 02:25
to make the hidden file visible it says to go to tools-folder options-view…. Where is this? Where is tools?
November 1st, 2008 19:34
yo bro i tried these steps but when i uploaded the songs again in my ipod they get stucked in between when i am playing it…. spo tell me something about that?
November 1st, 2008 16:38
AMAZING, IT REALLY WORKS, IF I KNEW THIS BEFORE I WOULD OF SAVE A LOT OF TIME DOWNLOADING SONGS I HAD IN MY IPOD. THANK YOU. YOU ARE THE BEST.
October 31st, 2008 13:23
Awesome!!!
I would never have figured that out on my own, worked great!
THANKYOU!
xx
October 29th, 2008 02:53
hey thanks for the advise it work like a charm
October 25th, 2008 07:53
I have an Ipod with a bunch of music. I am not sure what happened but my MacPro laptop’s itunes some how was empty one day??? as if I had never used it or loaded anything on it, my iPhoto did the same thing. My question is, How can I take all the songs from the iPod and reload them? I can reload all purchased songs from iTunes but I also have some music from CDs that I loaded. Is there a way to retrieve music from iPod and put it back on my laptop or on my new iMac?
Thanks
Greg
October 24th, 2008 06:07
Thanks so much… you ROCK… it worked perfectly!
Much appreciation
October 23rd, 2008 20:31
thankxxxxxx mate that does work
cheers
October 22nd, 2008 18:57
Thanxxxx a lott ..that was beautiful ……
October 19th, 2008 04:44
This was so easy! Thank you!
October 18th, 2008 17:03
Thanks! This was very helpful and worked perfectly!!!
October 16th, 2008 00:13
now how do you put the music in to itunes? i am so confused.. and so tired, oh so tired..
October 14th, 2008 23:18
I have a question and also a comment for those that need it.
First I’ll give my comment. For those that are OCD about their music. Once you add these files to your itunes you can have itunes convert to mp3 (even if they are already mp3) and this will now add a copy of that file to your my music folder. This is what I did because I didnt want itunes to manage my music. After you do that you have to delet the original.
Now my question is this: After I added the folders to itunes some of the music still showed as WXYZ.mp3. I have found that some of the albums are missing a few songs and I sure they are in those that the names didnt come out. Is there anything I can do to get the actual song names? There is no information in the properties of these files.
October 12th, 2008 23:02
thank youso much, most of those programmes you can use only lets you upload like 100 songs,
p.s mike, its prob not coming up because youve ejected it on itunes.
what i did was got rid of itunes all together, uploaded the music and then put it back on.
October 10th, 2008 16:44
Hello,
There are many iPod to computer transfer software now.’
Which make it easy to get iPod music to computer.
October 7th, 2008 15:08
Thanks!
I’m using but it only work on Windows.
October 7th, 2008 10:17
Thank you great info……
October 6th, 2008 06:22
Uhh… my computer keeps reading my iPod as a camera, so when I got into My Computer, the portable device says it’s a camera. Help..?
October 4th, 2008 10:56
I don’t see the folder call “Ipod Control” but I can’t “unhidden it so that it’s visible, go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View, and then check (enable) the option “Show hidden files and folders?” Where’d I find “Tools”?!? Please help! Thank you.
October 2nd, 2008 08:12
Thanks, This helped a lot.
October 2nd, 2008 00:53
thank you so much omg
October 1st, 2008 10:34
i have an itoch and in step 2 where u have to enable didk use, i dont have it as an option. wat do i do?? please reply
September 30th, 2008 11:47
how do i do this on vista? i cant find tools
September 30th, 2008 04:57
Thanks so much (:
Definitely saved me from deleting everything off my iPod, too, as well as not having to re-download everything or find the CDs.
September 14th, 2008 18:25
holy crap that was so easy.
thankyou so much.
September 8th, 2008 07:35
Thanks, even one is is technically handicapped like me can figure this out!
September 7th, 2008 02:43
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
My stupid external hard drive crapped out with all my music on it. Literally, you saved my life.
September 3rd, 2008 23:14
Please help. I have no idea what’s wrong. I followed all the steps, however I do not have an “iPod control” folder. I have tried unhiding the folders and it has shown the hidden folders, but none that are “iPod Control”. I only have “Calendars”, “Contacts”, “Notes”, and “Photos”.
Please help.
September 3rd, 2008 13:01
THANK YOU!!!!!!
I have lost one of the albums that i very important to me and the only place I had it was in my nano.
THANK YOU!!!!!
September 1st, 2008 23:38
After finding ipod control and copying the file to my music, how do I get it to appear in the itunes library?
September 1st, 2008 16:10
THANKS! great help.
@ bob:
if u have vista right there, try to look at Organize->Folder and Search Options->View->Show hidden files and folders.
September 1st, 2008 15:49
Okay so I don’t have a tools button on “my computer”…..how can I enable the hidden folders?
August 30th, 2008 10:30
when i go to my computer and open up my ipod folders, i dont have a “tools” button? why do i not have that option?
August 27th, 2008 07:30
it’s not working for me!! the part that isn’t working is the part where the computer detects your iPod as a hard drive. my iPod doesn’t show up in My Computer OR the control panel. help???
August 22nd, 2008 15:53
opay so i dont have an ipod, i have an enV phone but i have the samae problem. i thought if i loooked up “ipod to pc” the solution would be the same…but its not. do u have any idea how to help me with my phone? i cant move any of my songs frmo the phone to the computer, idk what to do! (just got a new laptop, all my music is on my old computer ahh)
August 16th, 2008 02:05
you also saved me sooo much time thank you. i just got one question, is there a way to get everything else back(ex. ratings, play count, equalizer). thanks again
August 14th, 2008 02:58
This is great but half of my songs have the four digit code. Can you help?
August 8th, 2008 13:27
thanks alot for ur help now i can copy all my song s from iPod to my Pc
August 8th, 2008 04:14
okay, i got up to ‘ipod control’, but when i clicked on it i got that message
“windows cannot open this file, in order for windows to open this file it needs to know which program to use, blablabla. then it says
-use the web service to find the correct program
-select a program from a list”
(you know the message)
when i click on use a web service i get a windows explorer cannot display page screen.
what program should i use?
i just got the computer today so its lacking a lot of programs. Its Windows Vista if it matters
hope you can help
Marcus
August 5th, 2008 02:27
thank you so much.
and a big thank you to rahul and jo for the vista advice.
no prolems except the time it takes to click on every single song to open it.
but there’s probably a much quicker way that i no doubt will discover soon.
thank you so so much! you have saved my music and money!
thank yoouuu! xD
August 4th, 2008 00:08
Thank you so much. My external hard drive died this morning along with all my files. Nothing irreplaceable, but I would have died without my music.
Also if you have these songs on iTunes already, just double click and it will play with the real file name. (assuming iTunes is default media player)
August 2nd, 2008 21:45
I’ve used this method twice now and it has worked great both times
I did find that i had to plug my ipod into the back of my computer for it to show up in the my computer area not the front usb ports.
Thankyou!!
July 27th, 2008 02:13
thaks a million.
was about to attempt a suicide,then happened to see your post.
you are indeed a life line
thanks again
btw ,i have vista.and it worked beautifully.
July 25th, 2008 22:56
J’ai trouv
July 25th, 2008 21:58
u saved me ur so good thank u soooo much
i was stumped forever!!!
July 25th, 2008 12:54
ok i saved the ipod control and everrything, and when i click add neww folder on itunes, i have to keep clicking until i get the just the files? do i have to do it one file at a time? help please
July 25th, 2008 06:20
The hidden folders thing is just too complicated for girls
. I tried Sue-Ann’s. This software rocks! I just recuperated all my iPhone music back to my new laptop.
July 24th, 2008 16:29
JJ of course there is a faster way of syncing your ipod with any itunes library, than doing it manually.
I use CopyTrans http://www.copytrans.net/ and I really like it because it protects your ipod from unwanted itunes syncing. Besides, it copies your iPod songs to your computer or iTunes, playlists, ratings, play count, last played, album artworks, videos, movies, TV shows, audiobooks and podcasts (incl. subscriptions)
It imports all that to iTunes in their right order and categories. It’s just so easy with it. I’m sure you’ll like it to.
July 22nd, 2008 11:00
ur the best … its so easy and fast to transfer ur the man…COMPUTER GENIUS!!!!
July 20th, 2008 19:45
OMG thank you soooo much it worked :O genius indeed
July 20th, 2008 07:19
oh my god you´re a freakin genius!! thanks soo much I LOVE YOU man
July 20th, 2008 04:07
I have a comment on step 9. Once I added the folders to iTunes, they still had 4-letter names in my documents folder. I thought I’d have to rename them all myself but iTunes will reorganize them for you if you check the box in the advanced tab in preferences.
July 12th, 2008 06:39
my ipod drive will not show up when i go to my computer please help
July 12th, 2008 05:17
is there a faster way to put the songs back into the library without instead of doing it one at a time? but other than that good directions
July 7th, 2008 08:20
you are of epic proportions my good sir
June 26th, 2008 19:11
U’RE THE MAAAAN!
June 2nd, 2008 11:40
thank a million, two poeple let me have there ipods now i wish i had known this before i deleted everything on the first one.
May 29th, 2008 06:17
Thank-you! Now I have no problems, you saved me money, and my medicine—-MUSIC
lol
May 24th, 2008 16:08
Hey, I was just trying to figure out how to do this… There is also another way… which is really similar to this way.. Instead of un hidding the folder you can right click on the main folder, like when you find it in my computer and click search. Then click on music and search the letter “m” and it will show all of your music again in the un-readable format. I figured it out and then decied to search in on the internet wasnt really smart :s lol But this is great that it is alreay posted on the internet.
May 23rd, 2008 01:17
For Vista users, click organize, folder and search options, and then view. It will be under the hidden files and folders option.
May 20th, 2008 12:54
your a champ.
May 20th, 2008 03:33
Please someone help…., I have found the music though this easy guide explained, but i can’t do the last step and transfer it in2 my itunes library how do I do this????
May 16th, 2008 01:29
omg THANKS FOR THIS IT HELPED SOO MUCH!
May 7th, 2008 02:33
I agree, he should run for president
May 6th, 2008 22:35
I have vista it was super easy. This guy should be running for president.
May 6th, 2008 15:41
Why don’t use TuneAid. For me this is the best. He works for PC and Mac and retrieve all data (playlists, ratings, playcounts) from iPods and iPhones etc..
May 6th, 2008 15:27
Why don’t use ? For me this is the best. He works for PC and Mac and retrieve all data from iPods and iPhones like playlists, ratings, playcounts etc..
May 6th, 2008 08:15
ty sooooo much
May 5th, 2008 07:27
Oh, and I forgot to mention, I have Windows Vista, and already tried someone else’s suggestion to get the ipod control to show up and it still doesnt work.
May 5th, 2008 07:21
Hey, for some reason my ipod wont show up in my computer when connected. I already clicked the ’show hidden files or folders’ option, but still no luck. I tried plugging in my digital camera just to see if it comes up in my computer and it does. Does this mean something is wrong with my ipod? What should I do now?
May 3rd, 2008 10:52
OMG !!! THANKU SOOOOOOOO MUCH !!! WHO EVER WROTE ALL THIS IS CONSIDERED AS A GENIUS IN MY DICTIONARY !!!! THANKU ONCE AGAIN !!! = )
May 3rd, 2008 03:06
Thnx a ton man!!! it worked out man gret job!!!
April 28th, 2008 07:12
i have a vista i cant find the tool button
April 20th, 2008 08:46
So glad I kept searching. My computer stopped working and I just bought a new one. Thanks for the help!
April 18th, 2008 07:44
if you are having problems getting music to copy that you purchased on itunes, all you have to do is log onto you itunes account on a different computer and you should be able to access all the music you have purchased
April 16th, 2008 20:04
THANK YOU!!!
April 12th, 2008 18:18
fair enough it does the job, but renaming a 16 gig touch with 4000 songs, gonna take too long….respect though
April 8th, 2008 00:07
Thank you so so so so much! You have totally saved my library! Have some eternal gratitude!
April 2nd, 2008 17:36
Good Work guys
el|te !!!
April 2nd, 2008 10:59
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I lost all my music to a virus, had to reinstal everything, and now thanks to you, I have it all back, THANK YOU
God Bless
March 29th, 2008 05:01
Thank you so much. 30 gigs of music was alot to transfer the first time. I’m estatic you were able save me from that again.
March 25th, 2008 08:17
Thanks so much for this easy-to-follow guide, I’d been going demented since my laptop was stolen! Now I’ve recovered all my music off my iPod, brilliant
March 12th, 2008 18:08
Thank you!
March 9th, 2008 12:24
thaks a ton a big help thanks thanks thanks
March 1st, 2008 19:49
I managed to back all my music to my PC as above but now when I tried to play music on my I-pod it says no music. Yet when I check on the computer the IPod shows 8GB of “other” which is the amount of music I backed up. Has something changed the format of the music on my IPod or why can mu IPod not see the music that remains there?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
Paul.
February 28th, 2008 06:58
Thank you thank you thank you….I have been searching soooo long and your method was so easy I really really really grateful! XXXX
February 27th, 2008 21:50
it works with iPod clasic, the thing is like u said the album titles have all got 4 letter names, and u have to go throught ht e whole list renaming them.
good thing in tile mode the details are still thre, it makes it a wee bit easier to rename, god that would take saoo long if u have 80gb of music like me
February 27th, 2008 13:40
for windows vista users, to get to hidden folders for the ipod:
organize > layout > menu bar (must be checked)
from there you can opt for all hidden folders to be shown from the tools option!
February 27th, 2008 00:13
To get to the hidden “ipod control” folder you have to press ALT. It will show the task bar that is also hidden and then you can proceed by choosing TOOLS>FOLDER OPTIONS>VIEW.
February 24th, 2008 20:42
Does this work for iPod Classic?
February 24th, 2008 10:56
Thank you so much for the help, I was here swearing off Vista for the 100th time today and then I saw Rahul’s reply, thanks : ) Linux here I come…
February 23rd, 2008 01:57
hey, that really helped! thanks a lot, i thought it was impossible to transfer the songs because i tried so many things which took ages! this has been very helpful
take care.
February 22nd, 2008 13:58
I have windows vista (which I am learning to hate) and I cannot follow the directions in this article.
How do I get to the ” Tools -> Folder Options -> View,”
Nothing happens when I right click in the toolbar area of the windows and the folders are all configured differently than the XP windows.
Can anyone help??
February 17th, 2008 07:35
AWESOME!
saved all my music
this rocks
February 15th, 2008 06:27
How do I get to tools>folder options>view
February 12th, 2008 15:02
Sara,
What OS do you have?
I was a little puzzled because its blatant on XP and everything else (tools) but on vista i couldn’t find it immediately. If you have vista, you click the arrow next to organize on the top left and go to folder and search options. click that and hit the view tab, and down in all that stuff youll find the show hidden files box.
February 10th, 2008 06:38
THANKS SO MUCH ! this is great ! i tried downloading some software to copy my songs from my ipod to my computer and it did nothing. this, i feel, is the greatest and easiest way to transfer music back to your computer, and even if there is the 4-letter cryptic file names, it automatically read the song so i didn’t have to rename each and every one. THANKS AGAIN ! (:
February 9th, 2008 07:21
Thank you soooo much I was losing my temper with it and about to give up and now its all sorted
cheers!!
February 8th, 2008 14:14
amazing man!!this is too goood!!i thought i wuld have to download some software or sumthing to do this task which i actually thought to be tedious! thanks so much dude!!!
February 3rd, 2008 04:54
You rule. Thanks so much. I remember doing this a while ago, but with this new computer I didn’t even think about hidden files…I thought they just updated security. Thanks again. you’re a life saver.
February 1st, 2008 08:21
I managed to get the files off my ipod onto my new vista computer. I then downloaded itunes, but when i clicked to add the folder it did not work, nothing was addedd. Importing works but i have to do the tracks one at a time…is there a quicker way?? my library has over 3000 songs :s thanks for you help!
January 31st, 2008 04:19
I got up to stage 5 but I cant find ‘tools’ anywhere? Help! What do i have to do?
January 29th, 2008 10:30
[...] think it’s true that if you can’t transfer the music via the iPod. – Copy or Transfer Music and Songs from iPod to PC and Computer without iTunes
January 22nd, 2008 00:23
tnk guy,i’ve thinked i have to buy back all my 11.890 songsXD
January 19th, 2008 08:27
Quality! saved me a lot of time n money ty v much !
January 19th, 2008 07:02
Thanks for the article. Solved my problem.
January 14th, 2008 19:09
I figured out how to get it to work on Windows Media Player. All of the files in my iPod were .m4a files I had to convert them to mp3 files. I downloaded a free file converter to do it.
Now i’m in the process of adding my music to my new Archos 604 wifi. woo hoo.
January 14th, 2008 00:11
Thanks for the tips…I already feel somehow Itunes is not as straight forward for new users …
January 13th, 2008 12:29
amazing- thanks for your help!
January 12th, 2008 03:39
Also I didn’t have iTune on any of the laptops I used.
HTH
January 12th, 2008 03:35
I copied my music from my ipod to my pc, copied them to the “my music folder” of course they have the F00 etc names but I cannot get them to add to my media player library. I select all the files and right click to add to media player list but only two songs copied over and the other files will not copy or play.
What did I do wrong? I have tried this on XP and Vista
January 11th, 2008 12:17
where is enable disk use?
my computer doesnt detect the ipod when i flug it in?
January 6th, 2008 12:06
[...] It is possible but not easy and would depend on how good you are with computers. Copy or Transfer Music and Songs from iPod to PC and Computer without iTunes
January 6th, 2008 01:58
Wow! Thanks so much!
January 1st, 2008 22:06
thanks
December 29th, 2007 09:13
anyone know a good way to convert from mp4 to mp3
December 9th, 2007 02:41
AMAZING. was all over the internet looking for a way. downloaded like a crapload of software AND tried manually. this was the only simple and working way. THANK YOU SO MUCH. XX
December 2nd, 2007 00:18
thnx alot bro..it helped alot
December 1st, 2007 12:21
im not gay or anything like that but i have to say i love u! XD u saved my life bro… thanks!
November 6th, 2007 11:21
ok. i did this and i have all my songs on my computer now but when i tried to sync it, it said it cant find any of my songs. so now i have no music on my ipod and 700 useless songs on my itunes. what can i do to get them back?
October 31st, 2007 06:54
while trying to copy my music to my PC it cannot copy hardly any of my songs. It keeps saying parameter is incorrect. any help please?!
October 29th, 2007 10:05
Thank you SOOOOOO much!
My computer crashed, and I lost everything, but I had 700+ songs on my ipod that I was able to save…
Thanks!!!
October 23rd, 2007 11:51
I’m using Vista. I understand your directions. However, I can not open up my ipod as a portable hard drive? It tells me “Application not found.”
I have checked the box “manually manage music and videos” in itunes, and the box “enable disk use” is also checked, but it is in shadow.
Any suggestions?
October 5th, 2007 10:30
Thank you so much, this really helped me save a lot of music.
September 22nd, 2007 04:56
When I try copy & paste it to my computer, after a few minutes of transferring I get a message saying that the parameter is incorrect. Then after that I get the same message every time I try to transfer any of the individual files (ie F05, F06, etc.). Any idea how to solve this?
September 20th, 2007 10:42
thanx i got a butt-load of good music off my girlfriends ipod with these steps
September 15th, 2007 11:32
this worked for me excellent
thank u very much
September 8th, 2007 01:17
thank you for the help. I called apple and they would not help me.
September 6th, 2007 09:17
thanx man i’ve been searching for this for a long time…thanx a lot
September 3rd, 2007 01:33
thnkx:D this helps alot!
September 3rd, 2007 00:02
THANK U VERY VERY MUCH
July 27th, 2007 07:53
Me & My friends have been karaoking with audicity and we have saved it to my computer.
I been looking around the intereet browser searching on how to get my audicity file into my itunes libaery. But you see im getting fed up with all the searching and Im hoping i can get some help on this
Highligter – Getting Files On My Desktop into Itunes Libary System.
Please reply
thank youuu
July 23rd, 2007 05:42
Dude omg thank you sooooo much! I spent hours trying to figure out how to do this and finally got it right after reading this! Thanks again!
July 20th, 2007 09:24
I HAVE VISTA!!!!!!
here’s what you do.
1.) after you plug in your iPod you click on my computer, look for your iPod in “devices with removable storage”.
2.) after u open that u click ‘organize’ in the top left hand corner’ for a drop down menu. then click on folder and search options.
3.)select the tab ‘view’ and in the advanced setting selections. select ’show hidden files and folders.’ click ok.
4.) then follow the same directions as above =)
p.s. if your just wanting to upload music from your iPod to your iTunes, just go through a long process of opening the folders, then ’selecting all’ of the files in the folder and dragging it into itunes music.
July 7th, 2007 04:08
how does the transfer work if you have vista?
July 6th, 2007 04:23
question: my “my computers” doesn’t show that my ipod is connected even when it is so i can’t open the file. how do i change this so i can load my music back on? let me know if u know how!
Thanks!
June 29th, 2007 10:47
Dude, thank you so much, my old computer got all 800 of my songs deleted and then I see this site and have them all back. Simple to do, and I can keep listening to my tunes THANKS MAN!
June 26th, 2007 22:38
Thank you sooo much. This is probably the best ipod advice i’ve had so far.
June 21st, 2007 10:33
My comp crashed which had already happened before and i had to download all my music again and i didnt want to go through that again so i found this and it was really simple and easy best part was i didnt have to download any other programs.
June 13th, 2007 08:51
hey dude, thank u very much for the info
May 21st, 2007 06:24
I am also looking for directions using Vista.
Thanks,
May 16th, 2007 12:13
Thanks for your help. My questions is when i followed the steps not all my music transferred over. Did i do somethng wrong? I am missing about half my music.
May 16th, 2007 03:58
can you tell me how to do this using Vista?? thanks!
May 4th, 2007 12:56
I got everything to copy except what I purchased off of ITunes….Really sucks too, that was over 500 songs and videos! I have Vista now (which sucks too). Anyway to get my purchased files to copy as well? They are in my Itunes folder but it says it isn’t authorized to copy, even though the computer is authorized…please help!
April 23rd, 2007 05:31
thank you
April 13th, 2007 06:16
this stuff works yoooo
April 12th, 2007 10:23
just got a new dell pc with vista…just wondering if this process will work with this new os
April 12th, 2007 08:25
Thanks so mcuh for the tips. We got a new PC in January, and I’ve been looking to transfer my music since then…this was really helpful, quick and easy! thanks!!
April 4th, 2007 08:46
I want to get my 2+yrs old iPod 4GB playlist off of my brother’s Dell PC laptop, and on to my new 4GB Nano and an eMac. Please advise…
March 30th, 2007 12:42
my hard drive crashed and most of my music was from my exes cds!
THANK YOU for sharing this info!
March 28th, 2007 08:21
wow. just wow. mad props to you. i was skeptical and this is seriously the simplest thing…. My hard drive crashed and my new comp has vista- which completely aufgafucks the hidden files plan to recover music… congratulations on being a mastermind. Thanks!!
March 28th, 2007 00:37
You are so my new best friend. Not only did this work like a charm, but the instructions were easy to follow, but they actually worked the way it said it would. THANK YOU!
March 21st, 2007 08:32
Seriously, I love you, whoever you are. My PC crashed today and apple basically told me I was SOL.
March 18th, 2007 02:35
ohh yeah. this was helpful because most of the stuff i have isn’t from a CD. mostly from different computers!
March 18th, 2007 02:33
wow i have been wanting to learn how to do this. i have tried so many different ways and could never figure how to do it! i didn’t even think it was possible! hahaha.
now i can pretty much do whatever i want with my music!
thanks bud!
March 17th, 2007 22:55
thanks, this truly helped me out….as said before, this saved me lots of time from re-ripping my cd’s, etc…the directions were nice and easy to follow, great work!
March 17th, 2007 13:31
omg i love this b/c i bought a new ipod a 80 gig and didnt feel like copying all 3000 songs so i conected both ipods and just transferd the folders from my old to new and now i dont have to go threw countless hours copying cds good job dude
March 17th, 2007 09:49
Mate, you just saved my life with this article. You are a champ.
March 14th, 2007 19:22
Oh my Goodness, if a flippin’ flight attendant can mange it, then all you guys who have not been able to get it to work should be ashamed of yourselves!!!!
Hee hee hee only kidding. I have the utmost respect for male air stewardesses…
March 11th, 2007 10:53
wow. you completely just made my day by writing this article.
thankx
March 11th, 2007 00:32
Thank you very much for this article! Other websites tell you to download a software to transfer music from the ipod to the computer. This is the best and easiest method.
March 4th, 2007 03:12
ok problem.
websites keep telling me to do this, but i cant find my iPod anywhere. i plugged it in, but it doesnt pop up on My Computer. without that, i can’t get to iPod Control folder & can’t get my songs back. please help!
February 28th, 2007 21:59
thnx alot m8. u made my day. cheers to that.i strongly recommend ur website to the rest of my m8s.
February 27th, 2007 00:29
Thank you sooooo much!!! I knew there had to be a way w/out paying $19.95. It worked perfectly. I recomend updating your Windows Media Player before attempting to import files from your Ipod.
February 23rd, 2007 01:53
I copied them to my computer, but when I go to play the songs from the ITUNES library the message “The song could not be found because the original file coud not be found. Whould you like to find it?” When I click Yes, it takes me to the Itunes Library with my old stored songs on my computer, but the new ones listed and trasnferred from the IPOD are not there. Any ideas what I did wrong ???
February 13th, 2007 11:14
thank you very much. I have been looking for this for a very long time now. Ever since my other computer crashed I have been trying to get all of my songs back and not download them all over again(more than 2000 songs). Again Thanks!
February 5th, 2007 08:39
Thanks very much for this information, i tried every thing i couldnt copy the music files but i tried this way i done it perfectly without any problem
January 29th, 2007 07:02
I happened to be reading through these forums (ipod music transfer….) I realize that no one has mentioned another way which i found out for trying to help my friend with his dilemna. This method works for 1- computers with no iTunes and 2- older computers that will not work with the “show hidden files”. You can find everything in your ipod by running a search on your computer and changing search criteria to the Ipod drive, whatever it may be. leave the file name blank and hit search. Every folder on your ipod should come up. With some computers you might have to mess with the search criteria even more such as options and such. you can even connect 2,3,4 ipods and do simultanious searches. From there you can transfer from 1 ipod to another via drag and drop (do this at your own risk) But it is possible, I have done it. Well i hope this helps out at least somebody. It helped my friend who doesnt even own an ipod. I found out by sheer luck, i dont even like ipods, iRiver, iAudio, and Archos all the way.
January 23rd, 2007 00:33
omg thank you soo much this information has saved me hundreds of hours of trying to get all my ipod files onto my new computer.
thanks soo much
January 12th, 2007 06:53
I did this last night, worked perfect and didn’t have to re name any of the files!!!
Thank you so much!!!
January 11th, 2007 16:36
THIS WORKS! I am a flight attendant and have my iTunes on my laptop at home in Seattle, but have all my movies and music on the desktop at the apartment in Newark. This allowed me to load up and go!!
Thank you so much!
and thanks for nothing Apple…
January 10th, 2007 06:36
[...] permalink Hmm, da mir leider immer noch nicht klar ist, warum du über den iPod am PC Musik hören willst, gehe ich mal davon aus, dass du nicht weißt, wie du sie wieder auf den PC bringen kannst. Vll. hilft dir das hier weiter. Falls nicht, dann einfach selbst einmal googeln. @KingAnonym: Sorry, da war ich wohl mal wieder zu schnell Gruß, Julia __________________ MacBook White 2 GHZ – 80 GB – 2 GB Ram *happy* [...]
January 1st, 2007 07:43
I tried other sites and they didn’t work, but finally, when all hope was lost, I found this site and it was so simple. I encourage people to use this method. Thanks so much!!!
December 24th, 2006 17:02
[...] Similar to Apple iPod, Zune restricts or limits user ability to copy, transfer, upload or download of files, especially songs, musics, MP3s and videos between Zune and computer to protect the copyrights and reduce piracy. However, with a little trick and registry hack, you can enable visibility of Zune player in Windows system with limited hard disk support. [...]
December 4th, 2006 21:36
What if I want to copy songs from my computer to iPod…do I also use this method? I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. I have some songs on my work computer that I want to move to my iPod since I can’t install iTunes at work
December 3rd, 2006 13:00
Another entry: As I plow through the process (see previous entry), grey exclamation points appear in front of increasing numbers of songs. The grey exclamation points mean that iTunes cannot find the song. A search returns to the files with the cryptic 4-letter song title. Is this the best there is?
December 3rd, 2006 11:30
The technique is a good one. However, I have an iPod with about 1/6 of some 730 songs not on my computer. I find myself having to click on each song to get it to play thru iTunes, and delete it as I find that it is a duplicate song already on my computer, which is pretty tedious the more songs you have to go through. Even when I switched to “tiles” in Windows Explorer the files kept their cryptic 4-letter file names. Any ideas about how to streamline the process?
November 26th, 2006 14:17
Thanks for the help it was really easy to follow and made the process go fast.
November 24th, 2006 13:49
This was amazing! thank you so much! this helped get all my music back onto my computer after it crashed! im so happy i didnt have to burn a million cds. Thank you again!
November 17th, 2006 07:54
This helped out so much! I’ve been trying to getmy songs from my iPod to my new computer since August, but I haven’t figured it out… until now. Thank you.
November 14th, 2006 11:26
More simple, you can upload song from Ipod from Winamp
Oulios
November 13th, 2006 13:49
you have no idea the grief you saved me by writing this article! after my hard drive crashed, my ipod was the only piece of hardware holding over 15 gb of music. i tried some third party programs to upload the music from my ipod, but these programs (Tansee, IpodRip) kept failing to copy hundreds of my songs. your method worked perfectly, i retrieved every single one of my songs back, and i am extremely grateful for your help! thank you, and keep writing helpful articles like this.