Step One: Find Your Device's Music Folder
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need a free program called iPhone Explorerto do this. Just download it, install it, and start it up. Look under User > Media > iTunes_Control > Music in the left sidebar. This is where your music is stored.
If you're on an older iPod, plug it in and start up iTunes. Click on the iPod in the left sidebar and check the box that says "Enable Disk Mode". Then, open up Windows Explorer and click on the iPod in the sidebar. If you don't see the iPod_Control folder, go to Organize > Folder and Search Options and hit the View tab. Click the "Show Hidden Files, Folders, and Drives" radio button and hit OK. You should see a folder called iPod_Control show up, in which you'll find all your music.
Step Two: Open Up iTunes
The iPod_Control folder houses all your music, but its in a cryptic and hard-to-understand file structure. This doesn't matter, since we're just going to transfer all of it directly into iTunes, and iTunes will sort it out for us. Open up iTunes and head to Edit > Preferences (or, on a Mac, iTunes > Preferences). Click the Advanced tab and make sure both boxes are checked on this page—both to Keep the iTunes Media Folder Organized and to Copy Files to iTunes Media Folder. This will ensure that iTunes copies all that music to your computer and renames all your songs for you.
Step Three: Drag, Drop, and Wait
Lastly, just click on "Music" in iTunes' sidebar, select the "iPod_Control" folder inside iPhone Explorer, and drag the "Music" folder from the right pane into the main iTunes window. It should start copying all of your music over into your library, and when it's done, you should have everything restored. Note that this method does notrestore playlists, videos, or podcasts; you'd need one of the $20 or so programs to do that (though you can always just re-subscribe to podcasts manually, they're free anyways).
It isn't the perfect method, but it's the easiest, most consistent method we've found, and it's completely free. If this doesn't give you everything you want, try out one of the programs we mentioned in our guide to copying music from your iPod, just know that you may have to pay for most of them. Good luck!
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Step One: Find Your Device's Music Folder
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need a free program called iPhone Explorerto do this. Just download it, install it, and start it up. Look under User > Media > iTunes_Control > Music in the left sidebar. This is where your music is stored.
If you're on an older iPod, plug it in and start up iTunes. Click on the iPod in the left sidebar and check the box that says "Enable Disk Mode". Then, open up Windows Explorer and click on the iPod in the sidebar. If you don't see the iPod_Control folder, go to Organize > Folder and Search Options and hit the View tab. Click the "Show Hidden Files, Folders, and Drives" radio button and hit OK. You should see a folder called iPod_Control show up, in which you'll find all your music.
Step Two: Open Up iTunes
The iPod_Control folder houses all your music, but its in a cryptic and hard-to-understand file structure. This doesn't matter, since we're just going to transfer all of it directly into iTunes, and iTunes will sort it out for us. Open up iTunes and head to Edit > Preferences (or, on a Mac, iTunes > Preferences). Click the Advanced tab and make sure both boxes are checked on this page—both to Keep the iTunes Media Folder Organized and to Copy Files to iTunes Media Folder. This will ensure that iTunes copies all that music to your computer and renames all your songs for you.Step Three: Drag, Drop, and Wait
Lastly, just click on "Music" in iTunes' sidebar, select the "iPod_Control" folder inside iPhone Explorer, and drag the "Music" folder from the right pane into the main iTunes window. It should start copying all of your music over into your library, and when it's done, you should have everything restored. Note that this method does notrestore playlists, videos, or podcasts; you'd need one of the $20 or so programs to do that (though you can always just re-subscribe to podcasts manually, they're free anyways).
It isn't the perfect method, but it's the easiest, most consistent method we've found, and it's completely free. If this doesn't give you everything you want, try out one of the programs we mentioned in our guide to copying music from your iPod, just know that you may have to pay for most of them. Good luck!
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