![]() Or else you will lose your only copy of library on iTunes. #MUSIC RESCUE FOR IPOD PORTABLE#Ĭlick on the iPod icon or the iPod portable hard drive letter to open the contents of the drive.Open My Computer or Windows Explorer, the iPod should be automatically detected as a portable hard drive.Beside, ensure that Enable Disk Use is selected. If you don’t see a folder called iPod Control, it’s hidden and invisible. Open the iPod Control folder, and then the Music folder.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. The Music folder contains the iPod’s music and videos, divided into folders.The files copied have unintelligible four-letter file names.Ĭopy the library to local computer hard drive’s My Music folder.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.īeside 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 (shareware at $20 – no longer free), iExplorer (shareware at $25) or PodPlus (now iGadget ($19.99) or iRepo ($16.99)). The freeware iPhone Explorer supports iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. 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.įor MacOS X, try Broken Helix (also Ollie’s iPod Extractor) (resource no longer available) and Rob’s iPod Exporter (resource no longer available). For MacOS 9, try escapePod (resource no longer available) and iProber. Other iPod Manager or iPod song transfer utility for Mac include Senuti (30 days 1000 songs trial), iPodRid (now iRip – shareware at $24.95), iPod.iTunes (shareware) and PodWorks (resource no longer available) and PodUtil (Music Rescue). Note that most of the above software, if still developed, will now be supporting 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. Or, you can go to iTunes menu -> iTunes Store -> Authorize This Computer.KennettNet Software has announced Music Rescue 4.0, the latest upgrade to the popular iPod recovery tool.
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