Move Music from Your iPod to iTunes Without Extra Software

What takes place when your computer crashes and you drop your total iTunes library? How about if you might be upgrading or setting up a new computer devoid of a backup of your music? If your ipod has been synched with your iTunes library and has all (or most) of your music, you will not likely will need to shell out many several hours digging up the CDs to reimport them.

Here is a way to manually transfer your tunes from your ipod to iTunes devoid of any specific packages. This will only operate on Windows PCs. Mac OSX does not let you to watch the music files in the Finder.

Hook up your ipod to a PC managing Windows (XP or Vista are your very best bets).

Make confident you can watch your concealed files. In Vista, open any folder and click on on the "Organize" button in the toolbar. Click on on "Folders" and "Lookup Possibilities," then decide on "Demonstrate Concealed Files and Folders". In XP, open Windows Explorer (not the World wide web browser), go to "Instruments" on the toolbar and "Folder Possibilities." Decide on the tab labeled "Watch" and underneath "Concealed Files and Folders," click on on "Demonstrate Concealed Files and Folders."

Go to "My Computer" in XP's Explorer or "Computer" in Vista's Explorer.

Click on on the ipod.

Find the music folder on the ipod by navigating to ipod_Management, then to Music.

Duplicate and paste the total music folder and all of its contents on to your computer--make confident you don't forget the location wherever you copied the music folder. In the file explorer, Vista will Demonstrate all the file names, albums and new music, but XP or before variations will only Present the file names (these kinds of as XXYPZ.mp3).

Start iTunes.

Eject and disconnect the ipod. Just click on the eject button following to the ipod in iTunes.

Go to File, then "Include Folder to Library" in iTunes.

Navigate to the location you copied the music folder to from the ipod.

Hit the "OK" button. Your new music will be additional to your iTunes library. It may possibly take a although if you have a good deal of music, so be individual.