Is it possible to move music from my iPad to my Mac?

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Is it possible to move music from my iPad to my Mac?

I’m looking for a way to sync music from ipad to a Mac. The usual method of syncing with Finder overwrites the music on the ipad with any changes done on the Mac, but I need the opposite.

I keep my music library as separate mp3 files in Onedrive, and for some reason several of them got corrupted recently. But turns out that happened after the last time I synced the ipad, so everything is in good shape there. So now I need a way to move them from the ipad to the Mac.

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iPad Pro, iPadOS 17

Posted on Jul 23, 2024 8:11 PM

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Jul 24, 2024 10:49 AM in response to josemaldu

Where or in what App on the iPad are these songs kept?

If they are in the default Apple Music app on the iPad, then you will need a 3rd party application on the computer to extract them from there. Syncing is one way only: Computer to iPad.

click here ➜ Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - Apple Community

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LotusPilot

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Jul 24, 2024 2:33 AM in response to josemaldu

As the mp3 files are stored in OneDrive, why not simply access OneDrive storage directly from your Mac computer?

As for your iPad, music files saved outside of the iPad Music Library can be easily copied to cloud storage (including iCloud), external storage devices, or network shares, using the iPad's native Files App.

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Jul 24, 2024 9:14 AM in response to LotusPilot

The files on the Mac and Onedrive are the ones corrupted. Don’t know where it started, but since the Mac and Onedrive are set to sync, both copies have the bad files. And it happened long ago enough for the Recycle Bin in Onedrive to be empty. So do the iphone, since I manually synced with the Mac after the damage. My only fully uncorrupted source is the ipad, which sometimes I don’t sync right away when getting new songs, but the songs are in the Music Library.

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josemaldu Author

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Jul 24, 2024 10:56 AM in response to Phil0124

Thank you, the thread you linked will be very helpful. The music is in the Apple Music library, so I’ll check out the 3rd party apps listed in that thread.

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Is it possible to move music from my iPad to my Mac?

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