transfer music from ipod to itunes or pc

This article provide step by step guide for how to transfer music from ipod to itunes and new computer, how to take back up of your ipod music library.

Below are the steps for how to transfer music from ipod to itunes. Plug your ipod to USB of the computer and wait for the computer to recognize it.

1. Make sure disk use has been enabled
2. Open up my computer and under devices with removable storage, double click and open your ipod.
3. Click on tools at the top of the window and drag down to folder options.
4. Under the view tab, find the subfolder called hidden files and folders.
5. Select the option show hidden files and folders.
6. Click ok.
7. Double click on the newly shown ipod_Control folder and open up the folder called music. These folders are named randomly and your music is impossible to find individually.
8. Select all the folders and copy them to a new folder on your hard drive. This is the back up of your music library. That helps you if something wrong happen during the transferring of music from ipod to itunes. You are now done with your ipod. Eject it if you wish.
9. Open up itunes. In the new folder you created, open up each individual folder labeled f## select all the music files in the folder and drag them into your library in itunes. itunes will already have the tags stored for these songs so renaming them should not be an issue.
10. Alternatively, press f3 to enter search, and enter *.mp3 no quotes to find all the mp3 files at once, then press ctrl+ a to select all the found files then copy them to a folder on your computer. This way all the music files are in the same folder which makes it far simpler to import them into itunes. If any of your files are in MPEG4 format, you can search for "*.m*" to generate a list of all your songs. (see Warning below)

Tips while transferring music from ipod to computer or itunes

• You can't drag a whole folder into itunes. It will not recognize the file tags and you will not know which song is which.
• The detailed folder view in Windows XP will read the tags off of the mp3s and display the proper Artist, Title, and Album information. The columns should show up by default, but can be added if they do not. This may work for other versions of Windows.
• FYI: One more thing to note, if you have bought songs from itunes and the computer you are storing the songs on is not the computer you have purchased the songs from they will be copied but may not be played because of ACC format. This format is protected and may not be played on and other computer unless you authorize the computer with your (the person who bought the song) apple id and password, you can only do this on 5 computers unless you de-authorize one. To do this, the computer to be.