My PC crashed and I lost my library for my ipod. Is there a way to move the songs off the ipod BACK to the PC?
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From what I understand, and unless you want to mod your iPod, the answer is no.  That's one of the chief complaints anti-iPod and anti-Apple users cite as the reasons why they dislike the iPod.\n\nFortunately for me, all my songs were ripped from the CDs I've purchased, and I always make hard copies of the songs I purchase from iTunes.\n\nI believe there might be a hack you can try; I think a popular website is ilounge.com- people there are doing all sorts of crazy things to their ipods.
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You need to copy the library file of all the songs and make a new file with a name that will show it belongs to you. Now you should have the original file plus a copy file. Now you can delete songs on the copy file but they will remain on the original. When your new file is ready plug your ipod into your computer and it will make the changes you want.
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1. go to  start / all programs / ipod / ipod updater\n\n2. Plug in ipod\n\n3. press restore (after that the ipod has no memery left)\n\n4. Put songs in it now the ipod should show up
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You can't switch it. You have to install it on the new computer, either with the CD you got with your iPod, or you can download iTunes for free off the apple website.
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Yup, burn them to a CD and rip them back to the computer.  Music bought and downloaded from the iTunes store can't be played on anything except iTunes or an iPod.\nIf you're ripping songs from CDs using iTunes, make sure you choose to convert them to mp3 (under 'edit >preferences >advanced >importing >import using' choose MP3 encoder).\nThat way you can play them with anything.
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YES GO ON MEDIA PLAYER UPLOAD THE MUSIC FROM YOUR IPOD THEN COPY TO CD
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Hi there,\n\n  I just got myself the new ipod shuffle & so I've just had to teach myself to get songs from CD & media library onto it.  Firstly you have to download itunes.  I-tunes only takes mp3 songs, so if you have .wma files you will need to find a file converter that converts .wma (windows media audio) files into mp3 format.  I downloaded a program called SWITCH off the internet for free & it is easy to use.  Then you go into i-tunes, go to file, then add folder to library, then add all the songs that are in mp3 format.  From then on you can sync up your ipod with all your tunes! Hope this helps!
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Plug your Ipod into the other computer, go to my computer and click on the ipod icon there.  drag the music out of there and into another folder or onto the desktop of the computer
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you can use a flash drive. since you have i tunes im assuming you have an ipod also. you can use the ipod as a hard drive / flash drive too.
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Well, first, is your song library in iTunes already? If it is, then hook up your iPod and when it loads and appears in the column on the left hand side of the screen, drag the item called Library (also in the left hand column of iTunes) onto the icon labeled your iPod. (whatever name it has). If your library is in another program, then install iTunes. When you load it up, it will ask you if you want to search your computer for other music you already have. Click yes, then the option that will say My Computer or My Music or something like that. (its been a long time since i did that, so please excuse any mistake.) it will automatically search for music and add it to your iTunes library. then repeat what i told you first to get it to your iPod.
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You cannot do it through Itunes or windows.  You need a third party program.  The one I used was ePhPod.\n\nYou install it on the computer you want to put the music onto and you plug your iPod into that pc.  Do not sync the music.  Open EphPod and then select the drive that your iPod is identified as and it will give you the contents of your iPod.\n\nYou can then transfer whatever songs you want.  I have had no problems with it.\n\nEdit:  EphPod is free.
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do you have a mac? and if no or yes do you have an mp3 player or external hard drive? if you have a pc connect your Ipod or whatever you have , make sure all the song from your library are on there, then take it and connect it to the other computer. then go to search and search your hard drive for all music, you might have to check in iTunes & switch it to be used as hard disk, then also go into my computer and check if the files are invisible as well. then just pull them out of the search box and let them download.
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If you have a Windows machine, simply plug in your IPod, find it listed in Windows Explorer, and make sure your machine can view hidden files.\n\nOpen the 'IPod_Control' folder and copy the 'My_Music' folder to your PC. Import those tracks into ITunes and put them in order there. Select Edit, Preferences, and choose the Advanced tab. Select a location for your music library by clicking the Change button, and then check Keep iTunes Music folder organized.\n\nUtilities such as the $15 IPodRip--available for PCs and Macs from The Little App Factory--can help automate this process.\n\nLittle App Factory: http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/
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not if you upgrade the itunes  it wont.  The songs should be fine either way,  you will just have to re import them.
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dont listen to the poster who said the ipods are copyrighted. that is wrong.\n\nbasically, i got a new laptop recently, and transferred my music this way:\n\nattach ipod via usb to old laptop. open ipod settings. click box for 'use ipod as a disc drive'.\n\nyou can then click on 'my computer', and will be able to drag and drop your music files onto the ipod, then attach it to the new laptop and drag and drop them into a file of your choice on there.\n\nits easier to transfer all music files if you empty the actual ipod of your current music first, as it frees up the space to transfer most of them at once - if not, you have to do it a few times over as the music already stored is taking up the room.\n\ni hope this has helped.
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Yes, just uncheck them in the iTunes library and they will not be transferred to your iPod, or if they have already been transferred, uncheck them and they will be deleted from your iPod.
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If you have an ipod, you can just use it exactly like an external hard disk drive to transfer your music. \nDon't add the songs through itunes, just add them to the ipod icon in finder. Then plug it into the pc and copy the files off it.\nIt will only work if you have a pc formatted ipod though. Macs can read a mac or a pc formatted ipod, but pc's can only read a pc formatted ipod.\n \nYou can connect 2 macs together with a firewire cable and transfer everything super fast, it's really easy, but i'm not sure if a pc can do this. Unfortunately a lot of pc's don't have firewire.\n\nYou could also network them together using a crossover ethernet cable, as long as your pc has an ethernet port.\n\nBuy a pack of cheap blank cdr's or dvd's - bit of a hassle but it's cheap.