Transfer files From iPod to PC

[Squid_uk]

Recently i lost all data on my drive including all my music however it is all still stored on my iPod (20GB photo).

Is there any way that i can copy the music from the ipod and restore it to my hard drive?

[Supreme2k]

Try the Winamp ipod plugin.

[TBoneit]

And of course, when it is plugged in just use My computer/Windows Explorer. One of the folders on your Ipod has music and I believe another has your photos. I don't have one to hand right now to look for the folder name but it is there and copies very easily. I've done it.

If you want you can search the ipod's drive letter for files such as *.mp3 or *.m??

If you used some mp3's they'll still be standard mp3 format.

After you copy to the hard drive you can add the music back into I Tunes and organize it.

I suggest that this time back it up on DVDs.

[Squid_uk]

tried using windows to browse but cant find the music folder, but did find the photo calender etc.

EDIT: i didnt have much luch with winamp either

[TBoneit]

Try using the windows search function and have it search as I suggested above. The music is there, I've done it for customers where their windows was gone due to a dead hard drive.

The extension will depend on whether you added mp3s in which case it stays mp3 or if you bought from Apple through I-Tunes. In which case you will need to check with apple about retrieving your license to use those purchases.

Good Luck, Your music is there.

[seinman]

Google for a program called SharePod. It's freeware. Download it, copy the .exe file to your iPod, and run it from there. The rest is pretty self-explanetory.

[scorps]

tried using windows to browse but cant find the music folder, but did find the photo calender etc.

EDIT: i didnt have much luch with winamp either

You must set windows to Show all files to find the music on your ipod.

Edit: The folders dont have logical sounding names they are usually named F** where * is a number or letter.

[Squid_uk]

Seinman i'll have a go with that app!

scorps i had a look through every folder on the iPod but i couldn't find anything that contained music of any sort, only found all my photos

[INFRATOM]

if you have the old series, Search one at the time *.mp3 and also for mp4 (can't remember the extension for mp4) the ipod drive letter. Then select all copy and paste to a folder. In this fashion you can copy but not the extra info added through the program. If you want the complete info as mentioned above must get soemthing like copyipod type of program which trial is limited somehow to a certain number or randomly misses some. ipod the old ones spreads files into different folders and new ones also renames them too so you can't copy and have to buy another copy for your 2nd ipod.

[RickBerg]

I use a program called Anapod explorer by Redchair Software for transferring files back and forth from computer to IPOD. It is better that Itunes.

[Squid_uk]

Ok i've used SharePod and It has worked but is there anyway i can import the songs with all the info (album artist etc) without having to rename all the songs?

[Bjs]

Disk investigator ... free recovery tool

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/

Best use : For those running xp under fat32 partition only .

Take drive to a pc running win 98 , and recover file's that were recently lost "only" ... that is a warning .

The reason a win98 pc is used is to prevent active window's xp encryted file system ...
Test the app on xp , and you will see deleted file's with name's made of unusual character's ... that's the encryption engaged .

Of course , file's can be rcovered under winxp , those that have their correct name's , but only recover file's that were recently lost ... otherwise , even if the file's are succesfully recovered , they won't work ... unreadable .

The reason of only recovering recently deleted file's is because you may have installed , or written file's to the same area , once ocuppied by these file's .. after a defrag will cause this ...

Recovering after these event's may well cause other program's to cease fuctioning ... or even cause the pc to nolong startup .
If you have defraged the system ... consider not recovering the file's .

It is why I setup user pc's with 2 partition's , and use back2zip http://free-backup.info/ , to backup data once a week to this second partition .

As for ntfs partition's , there are linux bootable rescue cd's about ... one or two recently have the ability to recover lost data from these partition type's ... currently testing one .

[seinman]

Ok i've used SharePod and It has worked but is there anyway i can import the songs with all the info (album artist etc) without having to rename all the songs?

In SharePod, there's a setting somewhere in there where you specify what you want your files to be named. You can even set up folders and such based on artist, album, track number, title, basically anything in the ID3 data.

[Squid_uk]

Got it!

Thought it did duplicate some songs and others it didnt name properly but i've got back my music!

Thanks Guys!