How to sync music from an ipod to your itunes library?

How to sync music from an ipod to your itunes library Asked by newbie4696410 51 months ago Similar questions: sync music ipod itunes library Consumer Electronics > Cell Phones & Accessories.

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It's possible, if difficult, to sync from your IPOD to your ITunes Library. blogs.ittoolbox.com/wireless/ontherun/ar... of the failings of iTunes is the inability to copy music files from the iPod to your iTunes library without third party utilities. I suspect Apple did this by design to keep we iTunes customers from copying our DRMed music.

I recently rebuilt my Tablet PC and wanted to copy my 18 GB of music residing on my iPod over to the Tablet so my library would be filled again. A gotcha lurks when you install iTunes and your iPod onto a new computer because iTunes is set by default to replace your iPod library with the desktop library the first time they are partnered. Of course since your iTunes library is empty it promptly wipes out your precious music on the iPod leaving you with no library anywhere.Ouch.

There is a simple way to prevent this and also copy your iPod library to the desktop without any third party software. ITunes won't let you configure the iPod to prevent the auto-syncing until AFTER the iPod is connected to iTunes. It is imperative you do not partner the two libraries when asked by iTunes, tell it no so the auto-sync doesn't wipe your iPod clean leaving you a blubbering idiot in the process.

Once the iPod is connected and set to operate as a hard disk on your PC exit iTunes. Go to the iTunes directory on the Windows machine (My Music/ iTunes by default) and delete the XML file and the ITL file which is the library database installed when you hooked up the iPod. With those files deleted the iTunes library is now empty as it should be for this process.

Navigate over to the iPod in My Computer and make sure you set the folder options to show hidden files. Find the hidden folder called iPod Control and even though it's filled with many files with nonsensical names this is in fact the music library on the iPod. Copy that folder to anywhere on the PC which will take a while if you have a lot of songs.

When this copy is complete open iTunes and in the Files menu tell iTunes to Add a Folder and select the iPod Control folder you just copied over. You could actually do this straight from the iPod without copying them all over but I was nervous something might happen to the library on the iPod so I copied them first. Before you do the Add a Folder mentioned above make sure iTunes is set to manage your library and to copy files when adding to iTunes.

This is important to get iTunes to organize the songs using the ID3 tags in the song files you just copied over. That's it- you have all your iPod songs now properly copied to the desktop and nicely organized and in the iTunes database. Note that when you first connect the iPod to the computer after you set iTunes to auto-sync it will wipe the iPod clean and sync the new iTunes library back to the iPod.It seems like a silly step but since the two libraries are the same anyway it doesn't hurt anything, it just takes time.

It is necessary to make sure the databases are identical. Once it's done you can delete the iPod Control folder you copied on the desktop since iTunes has copied the songs into it's own directory tree. Sources: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/wireless/ontherun/archives/how-to-copy-music-from-your-ipod-to-your-itunes-library-5615 .

It depends what generation iPod you have According to Apple, there is no way to take music off of an iPod and put it onto your computer. However, a few years ago I was playing with my 4th generation iPod and I found that when it is plugged into your computer to can go into 'My Computer', right click on your iPod, and select 'Explore'. In the menu that comes up, you can select 'Music' and from there you are directed to many folders labeled 001, 002, 003, etc.(I don't think the music in each folder is organized any specific way, but each folder contains maybe 10 songs) with the iPod's music in them.

From here, you can select the folders (ctrl a) and copy them to your computer. With each folder that is now on your computer you can right click and select 'Open with... iTunes', and this will then transfer the contents of each folder that was on your iPod into your computer. Now, like I said this was for a 4th generation iPod.

I now have a 5th generation iPod video, and I've tried this method with it and I can't make it work. There may be another way to do it with the newer iPod's but I can't figure out what it is. I hope this helps.

Sources: Experience .

That's nothing Apple intended you to do Apple intended an iPod to be the destination of songs/videos/etc. Being transfered from one installation of ITunes to an iPod that is registered to this application. Therefor if you connect an iPod to iTunes the first time it offers you to delete everything on the iPod instead of letting you download the media-files on that device. There are a couple of tools in the world that allow you to do that but that's not with iTunes.

The link I give, shows the steps to do as How To and it would take more space than it's available here for answering to copy and paste the complete description. The tool being used in the How To is EphPod that can be downloaded from http://www.ephpod.com/With the files downloaded to the local drive they can be added to the iTunes-library using the standard-import-routine being provided by the system. Sources: http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/ .

It depends what generation iPod you haveAccording to Apple, there is no way to take music off of an iPod and put it onto your computer. However, a few years ago I was playing with my 4th generation iPod and I found that when it is plugged into your computer to can go into 'My Computer', right click on your iPod, and select 'Explore'. In the menu that comes up, you can select 'Music' and from there you are directed to many folders labeled 001, 002, 003, etc.(I don't think the music in each folder is organized any specific way, but each folder contains maybe 10 songs) with the iPod's music in them.

From here, you can select the folders (ctrl a) and copy them to your computer. With each folder that is now on your computer you can right click and select 'Open with... iTunes', and this will then transfer the contents of each folder that was on your iPod into your computer. Now, like I said this was for a 4th generation iPod.

I now have a 5th generation iPod video, and I've tried this method with it and I can't make it work. There may be another way to do it with the newer iPod's but I can't figure out what it is. I also tried this, and it does work on a 5th generation ipod.

Only on the 5th when you explore your ipod you have to go to tools and then folder options click on the view tab, then in the folder that says hidden files and folders check the show hidden files and folders box. Explore your ipod again and you'll find the folder containing all of your songs in folders named 00, 001, 002 and so on. Copy to desktop..

1 Something I forgot to write. Apple has added some checksum-checking to the new generation of IPods, but as far as I know this only affects hardware-devices that are connected to IPods rather than software communicating with the IPod. But the latter I'm not sure, so this has to be checked, if you plan to buy a new device.

Something I forgot to write. Apple has added some checksum-checking to the new generation of IPods, but as far as I know this only affects hardware-devices that are connected to IPods rather than software communicating with the IPod. But the latter I'm not sure, so this has to be checked, if you plan to buy a new device.

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