How To Transfer Music From iPod to iTunes: A Tutorial
Transferring music from an iPod to an iTunes library has been a desire for many people, even though they may have previously downloaded music from the iTunes store or personal cds to their iPod. Though Apple should have expected this to be a valuable characteristic, it determined that iTunes should not assist in allowing this to happen.
Some people suspect that Apple took these steps to protect music from being illegally traded. But what about people who wan to transfer their own music between their own computers using their iPod and iTunes? This isn’t wrong or illegal!
You also might want need to transfer your iPod music to your own laptop or computer at work.
The default settings of iTunes will transfer the iTunes library on your new computer to your iPod. These settings will wipe out the library on your iPod, along with any music you have stored on it, and use the new, empty iTunes library. This is troublesome!
It’s not very difficult to figure out how to prevent this from happening. You need to choose ‘no’ when you’re asked if you want to ‘auto-sync’ your iTunes and your iPod.
To transfer music from your iPod back to your computer, a complicated series of steps is necessary, from deleting files from your iTunes folder, revealing hidden files, copying the iPod Control folder, creating a new folder and putting your songs somewhere else for safety. There were more steps, but you get the drift.
To avoid this very aggravating scenario or the complicated process necessary to avoid losing all of your music, third party vendors intervened and established some very helpful software.
Tune Tools, PodMaxx and iPod 2 iTunes are all programs that have been made so that you can easily transfer music on your iPod back to your computer, or to another computer.
You can also copy playlists and videos to your computer from your iPod, for a small cost. Each of these programs includes features that iTunes hasn’t yet included in their own software. These programs cost around $25 to $30, which is much cheaper than finding that your iPod library has been deleted!
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