3 Ways To Transfer Music From Your Ipod To A New Computer

This is most useful for users whose library consists mainly of purchased tracks and ripped CDs. If you have music from other sources (online downloads, CDs that are now gone, etc. ), or are trying to share music with a friend, see one of the following sections.

Click here for instructions on downloading and installing iTunes on your new computer.

You can only have five computers authorized at one time. Click here for instructions on deauthorizing computers if you have reached your limit.

If you have a lot of songs on the iPod, the transfer process may take a while.

You can’t use iTunes to import the tracks unless you had previously transferred your iTunes library from your old computer to your new one. Connecting your iPod to a new computer will prompt you to erase everything on the iPod. Most of the third-party programs also allow you to transfer files from iPod Classics.

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Not all programs will import the copied tracks directly into iTunes. If that’s the case, or you want to use the songs in another media player, you’ll need to copy them to a location on your computer (such as your Music folder), and then add that folder to your iTunes library. Sometimes the file names of the songs will be changed when copying them off your iPod. iTunes or other media players will still be able to read the metadata information on the songs and properly label them. The import process will likely take a while, especially if you are copying thousands of songs.

This method is useful for transferring songs that you didn’t purchase from iTunes to a new computer or a friend’s computer. It is also useful for retrieving your songs when nothing appears on your iPod. This method is not very useful for people trying to extract a single song or just a few out of hundreds. This is because the songs will not have legible file names, so finding the exact song you want will be difficult, if not impossible. This will NOT work for iPod Touches, iPhones, or iPads. Use the method above for those devices.

If your iPod is not staying connected after doing this, select it in iTunes and check the “Enable disk use” box in the Summary window.

Windows - Open the Control Panel and select “Folder Options”. If you don’t see “Folder Options”, select “Appearance and Personalization” and then “Folder Options”. Click the View tab and select “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”. Mac - Open the Terminal and type the following command: defaults write com. apple. finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE. After running that command, type killall Finder and press Enter to restart file and apply the changes.

If you don’t want to add the music to iTunes on the new computer, you can simply open the iPod_Control\Music folder from your iPod drive and copy the files directly to the computer.

If the iPod was originally used on a Mac and your trying to open it on a Windows computer, you will need to use the free HFSExplorer program and copy the files manually. You can download it for free from catacombae. org/hfsexplorer/.