hey guys, my computer just had a massive virus so i brought it to my local computer repair place. the guy completely reformatted my computer so my ARES (music downloader) and Itunes are gone. i got it back the other day and downloaded Itunes and im having a trouble transferring my songs on my ipod to my new itunes. any advice or tips?

 

Could you maybe clarify what you mean by "I am having trouble"??

 

basically i dont know how to get my songs on my ipod onto the new itunes i downloaded being that my old setup is gone.

 

call tech support.

 

What happens when you plug the ipod in and try to synch?

 

yea it trys to sync and i hit cancel. if i were to sync it would delete everything off my ipod.

 

Let me google that for you

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+copy+son...Pod+to+your+PC

 

 

Reboot your computer 3 times.

 

but NOT in a row.

 

 

alright, guess ill give the guy some honest help?

apple doesnt want you to be able to pull songs from an ipod onto a computer. why. i dont know. they do a lot of stupid shit with itunes. anyways, if you have a 2nd generation ipod touch or the new iphones you're shit out of luck.

if you have anything else, download winamp, then get the ipod support for it from http://www.mlipod.com/ you will be able to pull songs from your ipod onto your hard drive.

 

:smitler:

Ze iPods do not verk zat vay

Zey go int von dire ection only

Zey do not go zat vay

 

 

 

That's not very helpful. It's not true. i've pulled songs off my iphone many times.

http://code.google.com/p/iphonebrowser/downloads/list

 

i have one of the 30GB's from like 2006-2007. ill try that. thanks for actually giving me some help.

 

i gladly and happily stand corrected

 

thanks again razzi. it looks as if i dont ever have to use itunes again with this winamp.

 

ok so i salvaged my old songs on winamp. now i cant get new songs on my ipod through winamp. i was only able to do 1 and i forgot how i did it. lol

 

Now that they are on your HDD, have Itunes "find" them and sync them to the ipod. Then just add using itunes.

 

you earned your merit badge in this thread.

 

 

any new songs i sync will delete my old stuf.

 

I thought you used Winamp to get all the songs from the ipod to the hdd, no?

So if you sync, it will replace all songs with exactly the same songs right now.

 

Step 1 - pull all songs off Ipod onto HDD using winamp or whatever tool you use
Step 2 - install iTunes and point it to the location you pulled the songs to
Step 3 - have iTunes import all the songs that now reside on your HDD (duplicates of those on Ipod)
Step 4 - once all tunes are in iTunes, sync with the Ipod, overwriting all current songs with EXACTLY the same songs (you ripped them to the HDD, remember?)
Step 5 - add songs to iTunes and re-sync at will
Step 6 - Profit

 

thanks ill try it tommorow. its been frustrating me all night. so ill start fresh tommorow.

thanks again.

 

I use a utility called ephod...

 

ill try it out. the winamp thing is harder than i thought it would be.

 

so i downloaded ephod and it said it was free, now i apparently have to pay $20 bucks. thats pretty weak.

 

I laugh at you fools and your ipods! If you had a Zune you could plug in your Zune and easily copy all songs from your Zune to your PC using the included Zune software. I use this feature to copy share songs with my friends. Zunes yet again FTMFW!!

 

 

hes right. i was just thinking that if i had something else i wouldnt have to worry about stuff like this.

 

It's really this easy. you plug in the Zune, click device choose music and then right click on whatever you want to copy over and choose copy to my collection. You can do this with anyones Zune and get their music from their Zune to your collection.

 

well talk about promoting piracy

 

I'd recommend using Music Rescue, it prompts you every 50 songs to pay for a lincense but you don't need to, it's how I've pulled 80GB of songs off of my one iPod so now I have it on my computer and my other two iPods. The other benefit is that it copies all songs directly to iTunes.

 

I've used Mediafour's Xplay several times to get music off an ipod onto pc. Its trialware but the last time i used it, it was fully functional during the trial.

http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/

 

I did not know that.

I just know it is impossible to move music from your ipod to itunes because apple is stingy with that kinda stuff.

 

Because if you could transfer them off with itunes, you could take your ipod to your friends house and download them all to his/her computer and they don't want you doing that

 

It's really not hard to do.

Just follow this

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/art...to-computer/P1