Backing up songs on Ipod!

BobbyDavro

I have a 30gb Ipod. However, I had to reinstall me computer recently so basically I don't have any of my songs backed up. ie. If I lose my ipod. I'm in serious trouble.

Any ideas on how to make a copy of all my music? ( I heard something about doing it through 'my computer')

Any advice appreciated.
It would be a shame to ever lose all this top quality music, the f*ckin thing is packed with UNREAL tunes loike! :pac:

Kid Nothing

Sharepod should do the trick: http://www.getsharepod.com/

art

"yamipod" another option to download and use for this

pleasant Co.

From the FAQ sticky:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=50948556&postcount=14

Karoma wrote: »

Q: (How) Can I copy music to my computer from my iPOD?

A:
The iPod (Like many MP3 players) was designed to be the destination of a one-way trip for your music. This design was intentional supposedly to prevent people “stealing” music. The truth is that not everyone who wants to upload songs from the iPod to a computer is stealing music. It’s perfectly acceptable use to copy songs that you own back off the iPod. Right, with justification aside…

The music is stored (Rather chaotically) on the iPod in a hidden folder called iPod_Control.

The free, and awkward way:
In Windows, you simply have to open explorer.exe and open the iPod-drive.
Ensure that Hidden Folders are visible (Tools -> Folder Options -> View-> Hidden Files and Folders should be set to Show Hidden Files and Folders).
Open iPod_Control, and the sub-directory that is Music (Although: I’ve found it better/easier to Search as opposed to exploring the folders.)
As you’ll see-it’s a mess with numerous folders, and tracks from the same album spread over these folders. Also, it seems that later iPod firmware revisions have obfuscated file(name)s further.

So it’s advisable to use programs to save you pulling out your hair…

Mac-specific:
Senuti – “everything in reverse” – it offers a built-in search facility, and displays playlists. It’s essentially iTunes in reverse (Hence the name!)
OmniWeb – it’s a (Commercial) web browser. Just drag the iPod folder over and you get a nice list of folders…

Windows-specific:
EphPod (Free, and excellent. It has been around a good while…)
XPlay - http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/ - (Commercial – I’ve never used it TBH)
PodUtil - http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.php - (Freeware)
Anapod Explorer - http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/ - Anapod Explorer lets you access your iPod's contents from any Web browser and play its music via any MP3 program of your choice. You can edit song tags directly on the iPod. It also has an embedded database engine (Anapod-SQL); so you can search the iPod using almost any criteria and generate reports in HTML or XML. (A free trial is available)
CopyTrans - www.copytrans.net - useful for retrieving your music, ratings, playlists, playcounts to your PC (14 day free trial available for download)

Linux-specific:
Many of the above solutions will work, or have been ported – just add “linux” to a google search.


Other software:
As the iPOD continues to to be popular, new software emerges frequently. Have a browse of the following sites for other / new software:
http://www.versiontracker.com/
http://www.download.com/

(Edit [Bard] : Added CopyPod & addedURLS for other software)
(Edit [cremo] : Updated URL's)

Best of luck.

Creamy Goodness

pretty much what mactard said.

read the stickies.

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