Other way to copy Music Off Your iPod

If you ever experience hard drive crash and wiped out your entire music collection on your computer?
Here's how to copy music off your iPod or iPhone and back onto your computer.

Requirements:

o Any iPod or iPhone
o A computer with iTunes installed and enough hard drive space to store all the music from your iPod

Fantastic Music & Fantastic speaker system are good combination provided by computer. But when it crash and broken down by virus or something, you might consider to copy your music back to your computer.

You then remember that all your music is still on your iPod, Safe and intact. You plug it in, you mount it to the OS, and then you realize that iTunes only allows the downloading of music from iTunes to iPod, not iPod to iTunes. (This is to prevent the stealing of music, says Apple). Do you really want to spend hours re-importing music, and repurchasing music from the iTMS? We didn't think so.

Luckily for you, there are several alternatives.



Option #1:

Yes you can "rip" music off any iPod or iPhone. There are several applications that make this task very easy. A couple good programs to try are Pod Rescue (rating) or the much cheaper Tune Transfer (rating). Any feature packed application will cost around $20-30.

Option #2:

If you are cheap and want a free solution, you have several options. However please keep in mind that this option is the "hard way" and won't be very easy for the average computer user. If you aren't super savvy with computers, then please try option #1. There are many free or shareware applications for both Mac and PC that will copy the music off your iPod. Mac users can use iPod Viewer or iPodRip. UNIX Savvy Macintosh and Linux users can use command line to pull the music off their iPod. PC users should look for applications like iPOD AGENT or CopyTrans.

No matter what program you use, this is the general "ripping" procedure for coping the music off your iPod:

With a Helper Application:
1. Download a "ripping" program (PodUtil, PodWorks, etc.) and install it on your computer.
2. Make a new folder somewhere on your computer that will have enough hard drive space to hold all the music files from your iPod.
3. Using the ripping application you purchased or downloaded, copy all the music off your iPod and put it into that folder.
4. It's a good idea to archive your music at this point. Burn all your music onto CDs, DVD-ROMs, or copy them onto an external Firewire or USB hard drive.
5. Drag that folder into the main iTunes window. You music will then import into iTunes. This make take several minutes depending on the amount of songs and your computer's processing power.

Without a Helper Application:
Here's a way to quickly get files off a PC iPod without any extra software.
1. Plug in your iPod.
2. From the Desktop, go to My Computer and find the iPod (usually designated by a drive letter. i e. E: or F:)
3. Open the damn thing.
4. Go to Tools > Folder Options > View (the tab) > scroll to Show Hidden Files and Folders and click it.
5. Click OK
6. Go back to your iPod folder/drive, there you will find a new folder called iPod_Control
7. Open it.
8. The Music folder in it will have a bunch of folders named F00, F01 and so on. THEY HAVE YOUR MP3s. Look through the folders to find your stuff.