best program to transfer songs from ipod to macbook music

i have an ipod classic 160 GB from late 2009. i want to transfer all the songs on it to my macbook running catalina 10.15.2 which has "music" instead of "itunes" or to an external flash drive. i understand i have to use a third-party program to do this. does anyone have any recommendations? i'd rather have a free program but i'm willing to pay for something that is easy & fast.

MacBook Pro 15", OS X 10.11

Posted on Jan 13, 2020 1:37 PM

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Jan 13, 2020 3:21 PM in response to bigstimpycat

The recovery process is essentially the same, but you copy the add the recovered data into Music rather than iTunes. See also this note on accessing the hidden files on the device:


macOS 10.15 Catalina

Due to the fact that Finder includes sync and device management tools for Apple devices it is difficult to browse to the file system of the device using a standard Finder window. Instead use Finder's Go > Go to Folder... menu option and enter /Volumes/ then browse to the device from there.


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