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| From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: iPod question |
| Date | Wed, 10 May 2006 18:57:45 +0100 |
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In my experience, the copy method described by Christopher is very
straightforward. I lost a hard drive about 2 and a half years ago, just as I
had finished uploading about 6,000 songs. Oh, how the air turned blue. It
was a huge relief to find that I could retrieve the files back to a new hard
drive.
One proviso though - make sure you don't format your IPOD when prompted to
by the new hard drive. That happened to a friend, and he had to start
completely from scratch. Still wakes up in a cold sweat.
>From: "Christopher" <plattc@optonline.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: iPod question
>Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:12:21 -0400
>
>Yes. Several ways -- there's shareware to do it if you poke around on the
>web, or, more virtuously, you can do it manually by digging into the iPod
>using Windows Explorer (your iPod will show up as a hard drive if you've
>set
>the iPod settings appropriately). You'll need to change your Windows
>Explorer setting to view hidden/system files, then go to the "iPod Control"
>folder, then "Music". You'll see a bunch of subdirectories starting with
>"F00" and running sequentially up to some number.
>
>Anyway, you can copy that entire "Music" directory to your hard drive and
>then use iTunes to import that entire directory and set iTunes Preferences
> >
>Advanced to "Keep iTunes Music folder organized," which will create the
>folder structure (and alter filenames as well) by artist, album, and track
>based on the tags in each file.
>
>Feel free to e- me privately if you have any problems....
>
>Christopher
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
> > Of Josh Chasin
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:53 AM
> > To: audities@smoe.com; audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: iPod question
> >
> > My hard drive crashed, and at the exact same time apparently, my BACK-UP
> > hard drive crashed.
> >
> > Is there any way to get the contents of an iPod-- including playlists--
> > out of the iPod and onto a (windows) computer?
>
>
>
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