Any Ipod wizzards out there?
 

My old desktop crashed and on it was my Itunes with all my songs for my ipod. I have since gotten a new laptop but i dont know how to put the songs from my ipod onto my new laptop. Whenever i try it it it seems my only option is to format the ipod and delete all my songs. I know there has got to be some way to do this, but i just dont know how. Does anyone have any ideas?

Are you switching from Mac to Mic or vice verse? If so the only way is to reformat. If your sill using the same OS than you should be able to get the songs off the iPod to the computer.

Did you ever click the use as a storage device? If so you will have to do so. Plug in the iPod, and go into configurations and click the use as storage device. Than you can go into it as a hardrive and transfer files. Than reformat it and start all over loading songs to it.

My old desktop was XP and my new one is Vista, if that makes a difference

Shouldn't, just plug in the iPod, iTunes will start up as usual. Then go to configuration, you should be able to do this without reformatting. Once you change it to a storage device you will be able to access the iPod without having iTunes open, much like a flashdrive. If not let me know, there are other ways.

Plug the iPod in, right click the iPod (Your iPod name), and click Transfer Purchases.
Should work with everything.

What kind of iPod?

it keeps telling me my ipod is synced with another itunes......which it is i guess, but that computer crashed. All of the songs on my ipod are from CDs that i put directly onto my old computer. I dont even have most of those CDs anymore. I am really starting to hate Itunes now! So i tried the "transfer purchases thing" but it didnt seem to do anything. Also how do i turn the ipod into a hard drive? Im totally lost .

The ipod is an older one, 30gig, flat front with a rounded back.

In otherwords there is a function on iTunes that allows you to access your iPod as a drive. Go into "My Computer" and see if the iPod pops up as a drive when plugged in.

yeah it pops up as a storage device (G:) If i right click on it what should i be looking for?

don't right click it just open it like it was your c drive and find the files you want to transfer to the c drive of a folder on your desktop or where ever you wish to transfer them to...

tried that and none of those files contain my music. there is 4 files and they are all empty but the ipod still has everything on it

I'm assuming it's one of the older iPod Video (like the newer generation, Classics) ones.

Click Cancel when it pops up to say erase and sync.

Then, when iTunes is all calm (nothing going on and should see the apple logo up top), do the transfer purchases, if that doesn't work... I'll get back with something you can use.
A program that should do it.
Are these legitimate music downloads, or did you rip/dl them?

Software:
http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/...FRL4iAodK2Bw2Q

^^^ rawfuls that only works if you actually bought the music off iTunes.

You can change the settings on the iPod without actually reformatting it. Once change to a storage device you can download the music from it. I have done this once before with a iPod Mini that had songs on it that I only had on the iPod. Years later I wanted those songs on my new iPod and had to transfer. Now everything is on my Mac as well as a backup drive, but I know this works.

Not exactly, worked with my..... music.

You can't rip the files straight from the hidden folders within the folders, and play it, it's in a different format, not sure of.
Just use iRip.

josh9mille

Go to my computer.

Open the iPod

Go to tools.

Folders

View

Show hidden folders.

New folders will appear.

Find music.

Copy to folder created in C drive, or local hard drive.

Close out

Drag new folder into Library.

If still having issues pm me your number I should be able to walk you through it.

Yeah...that'd work.
I'm just really picky about my files (I like to browse them quite a bit), so I'm always fixing the labels..