help getting tunes off my iPod
heron stone
backed up. As a consequence, I lost about 30 gigs of MP3s.
A lot of it is on my iPod.
How can I restore these files to my HD?
heron
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Wayne C. Morris
<heronstone-B2B8C...@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
heron stone <heron...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I had a hard disk failure and (of course) wasn't adequately
> backed up. As a consequence, I lost about 30 gigs of MP3s.
>
> A lot of it is on my iPod.
>
> How can I restore these files to my HD?
There are a bunch of freeware/shareware utilities that can read the
music files and playlists from your iPod. Go to VersionTracker.com and
search for "iPod".
Zeph
> I had a hard disk failure and (of course) wasn't adequately
> backed up. As a consequence, I lost about 30 gigs of MP3s.
>
> A lot of it is on my iPod.
>
> How can I restore these files to my HD?
Podworks.
http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/
z
heron stone
Zeph <ze...@nospam.nowhere.net> wrote:
thanks everyone
i got it
Miami Mailman
(without quotes, of course) into the search window. Take your pick of
the numerous applications that do what you are asking for.
Dave
In article
<heronstone-B2B8C...@news.comcast.giganews.com>, heron
stone <heron...@comcast.net> wrote:
Tim Cutts
heron stone <heron...@comcast.net> wrote:
>backed up. As a consequence, I lost about 30 gigs of MP3s.
>
>A lot of it is on my iPod.
>
>How can I restore these files to my HD?
It's possible to do this without installing any extra software.
1) Don't let iTunes resynchronise (obviously)
2) Configure iTunes so that the iPod is mounted as a firewire hard drive.
Also check that iTunes is configured to copy music to the iTunes
folder (which is the default, but check anyway)
3) Open a Terminal window.
4) Type cd and a space (without a return)
5) Drag the iPod icon from your desktop to the Terminal window
This should add its pathname to your cd command line.
6) Press return.
To test you're in the right place, type the following, and check that it
returns a list of your songs:
find iPod_Control/Music -type f
7) If you want to reimport these songs into iTunes, type the following:
find iPod_Control/Music -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 open
and go and get a cup of tea. You'll find you can't do anything else
useful while this is running, because iTunes keeps getting given the
input focus.
(note this will only work if iTunes is your default player for .mp3 and
.m4a files - you will need a longer form of the open command line if it
isn't)
8) Once this has finished, unmount your iPod, and check all your music
is back in iTunes.
9) If it's all worked successfully, you can then re-enable
synchronisation to your iPod.
Note that this procedure doesn't restore any playlists - I don't know
whether they playlists on the iPod are the same as those for iTunes, and
never investigated copying them back when this happened to me - I don't
use playlists very heavily anyway.
Tim
Tom Stiller
Tim Cutts <ti...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> In article <heronstone-B2B8C...@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
> heron stone <heron...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >I had a hard disk failure and (of course) wasn't adequately
> >backed up. As a consequence, I lost about 30 gigs of MP3s.
> >
> >A lot of it is on my iPod.
> >
> >How can I restore these files to my HD?
>
> It's possible to do this without installing any extra software.
>
> 1) Don't let iTunes resynchronise (obviously)
>
If iTunes was set to synchronize automatically when it was last used,
and the window to deselect that option can only be displayed when the
iPod is connected, how can you avoid the resynchronization?
[Rest of procedure snipped]
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Tim Cutts
Tom Stiller <tomst...@comcast.net> wrote:
>In article <Qic*+sB...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
> Tim Cutts <ti...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> In article <heronstone-B2B8C...@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
>> heron stone <heron...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> >I had a hard disk failure and (of course) wasn't adequately
>> >backed up. As a consequence, I lost about 30 gigs of MP3s.
>> >
>> >A lot of it is on my iPod.
>> >
>> >How can I restore these files to my HD?
>>
>> It's possible to do this without installing any extra software.
>>
>> 1) Don't let iTunes resynchronise (obviously)
>>
>
>If iTunes was set to synchronize automatically when it was last used,
>and the window to deselect that option can only be displayed when the
>iPod is connected, how can you avoid the resynchronization?
>
>
>[Rest of procedure snipped]
Since it's a new iTunes install, it won't recognise the iPod. It'll asy
you whether you want to link to this new iPod. You say no. It will
then start up as before, showing you what's on the iPod, but won't
synchronise anything to it.
That's from memory - it's a couple of months ago that I had to do this,
and I'm not about to do it deliberately. :-)
Tim
Dale J. Stephenson
> In article <Qic*+sB...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
> Tim Cutts <ti...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > In article <heronstone-B2B8C...@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
> > heron stone <heron...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > >I had a hard disk failure and (of course) wasn't adequately
> > >backed up. As a consequence, I lost about 30 gigs of MP3s.
> > >
> > >A lot of it is on my iPod.
> > >
> > >How can I restore these files to my HD?
> >
> > It's possible to do this without installing any extra software.
> >
> > 1) Don't let iTunes resynchronise (obviously)
> >
>
> If iTunes was set to synchronize automatically when it was last used,
> and the window to deselect that option can only be displayed when the
> iPod is connected, how can you avoid the resynchronization?
>
This isn't an option for everyone, but hook it to a different Mac. It
will give you the option of synchronizing with the new mac (decline).
At that point you should be able to transfer the files off.
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Dale J. Stephenson
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