transfer music from ipodto mac computer

Transferring music from ipod to mac computer is easy if you use ipod as a regular device rather than auto sync device. I know auto sync is important feature but for few minutes disable it.
Now connect ipod to computer and open itunes.
On left side pane you will fine your ipod (name of ipod). Click on it to open.
It the right edge bottom you can find many icons. One icon looks like a tiny ipod. Click on it. This will open configuration windows.

You can see in picture. It is selected "Manually manage songs and playlists". If automatic update is selected then uncheck automatic update and select manual mange songs.
Now open main itunes windows.
Now to select all songs click on edit tab  select all
Drag them all onto the library in the left column.

Copying will take time depend upon your music library. you have a restored iTunes library. Or you can say transferring music from ipod to mac computer is done.
If you want you can go back to itunes preferences and re-enable auto sync.
Note: I have not purchased music from iTunes music store. These steps for transfer music from ipod to mac computer are not for registered music. I don’t know what happen with registered music if you do copy like this.

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transfer music from ipod without itunes

Transfer music to ipod without using itunes
It may possible that you tired of using itunes to manage your ipod. There are many other options are available to mange your ipod.


Itune is just ipod management software and itunes has its store for music.
There are many ipod manager software so you don’t need to buy stuff from itunes store and you can use other free ipod manager.
You can search on google or yahoo for free ipod manager software.

You can find many software some have free trails or are free.
But I would advice you that you first take back up of your itunes library if you have.

on your windows pc go to my computer,
Local Drive C:
Documents and Settings
(Your username)
My Documents
My Music
You'll see a folder iTunes.
Copy itunes folder.
• Paste it to safe place or on pan drive.
If your music wasn't in My Music and you don't know where it is, do this:
• Open iTunes, go to Edit and select Preferences.
• Select the Advanced tab.
• Under the General tab, you'll see "iTunes Music folder location".
• That is your path to your iTunes folder.

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transfer music from ipod to another ipod

Here are steps for how to transfer music from ipod to ipod. This will guide you how to transfer music from your old ipod to new ipod.

First you need to search the script named ipodfolderopener. This will run a series of terminal command that open up all hidden folder in the invisible music folder in your ipod’s invisible ipod control folder as a finder windows. This will open many windows on your screen so don’t worry about that.

Before executing script, you need to navigate itune’s advance preferences pane and unchecked “copy files to itunes music folder when adding to library”. Now execute the script. it will open many windows go to the foremost windows, select all music and drag and drop them into itunes. And now back to finder close the windows from which you have copied all song. Now move to next windows repeat previous step. Continue doing this for all open windows.

If you have large collection then this will take more than 30 minutes. But you need to do this only once. After that whenever you connect your ipod to computer, itune automatically find all the tracks and consider it as other tracks installed in music folder of your ipod library. You can also burn everything on cd.

Now transfer music from old ipod to new ipod.
After finishing all the steps explained above. First mount your old ipod so tht all those files appear in local itunes music folder. Now mount new ipod and sync itunes automatically. This will transfer the entire music library from your computer and old ipod. This process is slower as compare to routine sync but you need to do this only once. After sync ipod, navigate itune preferences and change it from automatic sync to manual sync.
Once you are done syncing all of the music to the new ipod, click on it in the side pane, select its preferences from the bottom of the iTunes window, and switch it from Automatic sync to Manual sync.

You have transferred music from one ipod to another ipod.

Now you are all done. Enjoy!

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