transfering music from old iPod to new
Is there any way I can transfer the songs from my old iPod to my new??
IMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5)
no, you need native songs in your computer and iTunes to carry them to the new iPod
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There are app that do the reverse of what iTunes does, such as Senuti (iTunes backwards!)
I highly suggest you look into this if you want to move your entire ipod library (which may not be the same as the iTunes library).
What you'd be doing is copying the files off the old ipod onto your computer's internal (or external) HD and then simply dragging the newly exported library right into your ipod in iTunes.
Cheers.
I highly suggest you look into this if you want to move your entire ipod library (which may not be the same as the iTunes library).
What you'd be doing is copying the files off the old ipod onto your computer's internal (or external) HD and then simply dragging the newly exported library right into your ipod in iTunes.
Cheers.
This could be a big help! My iPod Video was stepped on and now will not play or display. The screen isn't cracked but the liquid crystal display is permanently impression-ed. HOWEVER... when connected to my computer, I can see and play the files through iTunes!
I'm gonna try this...
I'm gonna try this...
Found this:
http://www.macworld.com/article/42469/2005/01/2waystreet.html
Macintosh
Senuti Whitney Young’s free Senuti offers a straightforward interface for moving music off your iPod. Like similar utilities, it allows you to select songs on the iPod and then copy them to a location of your choosing. Unlike with other utilities, you can copy not only single songs and songs grouped by artist and album, but also complete playlists from the iPod.
This solves a tricky problem that has plagued some iTunes users. Suppose that you lost your computer’s entire iTunes library. You could recover your songs from the iPod, but how would you re-create your carefully wrought playlists? Now, as long as those playlists were copied to the iPod, you can re-create those playlists by copying a playlist at a time from the iPod, creating a new playlist in iTunes, and adding the songs copied from the iPod’s playlist to the playlist you created in iTunes.
iPodRip The Little App Factory’s $15 iPodRip is another good utility. Like Senuti, it lets you recover songs, albums, and playlists from your iPod to iTunes. It also supports all song information that’s stored by iTunes, including ratings, play count, and last played. iPodRip features an iTunes-like interface for easy operation. You can find a version for Windows here.
Windows
SharePod Unlike other utilities designed to copy music from an iPod to a computer, Jeffrey Harris’ free, open-source SharePod must be installed on the iPod rather than a host computer. Like other tools, it can extract music from the iPod either as individual files or by playlist. It can also copy the iPod’s On The Go playlists. And the program lets you create Winamp playlists from the music on the iPod so you can listen to the iPod’s music without copying the music files to your PC.
The author makes it pretty clear that the program was designed with piracy in mind—along with the features I mention above, SharePod lets those on a network copy music from an iPod mounted on that network.
*iPod Agent* iPodSoft’s $15 iPod Agent has many talents, including transferring Outlook mail, appointments, calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes to your iPod. It also can move music from the iPod to your PC. As with the other utilities I’ve mentioned, iPod Agent can export single songs or playlists. It won’t, however, export the iPod’s On The Go playlists.
http://www.macworld.com/article/42469/2005/01/2waystreet.html
Macintosh
Senuti Whitney Young’s free Senuti offers a straightforward interface for moving music off your iPod. Like similar utilities, it allows you to select songs on the iPod and then copy them to a location of your choosing. Unlike with other utilities, you can copy not only single songs and songs grouped by artist and album, but also complete playlists from the iPod.
This solves a tricky problem that has plagued some iTunes users. Suppose that you lost your computer’s entire iTunes library. You could recover your songs from the iPod, but how would you re-create your carefully wrought playlists? Now, as long as those playlists were copied to the iPod, you can re-create those playlists by copying a playlist at a time from the iPod, creating a new playlist in iTunes, and adding the songs copied from the iPod’s playlist to the playlist you created in iTunes.
iPodRip The Little App Factory’s $15 iPodRip is another good utility. Like Senuti, it lets you recover songs, albums, and playlists from your iPod to iTunes. It also supports all song information that’s stored by iTunes, including ratings, play count, and last played. iPodRip features an iTunes-like interface for easy operation. You can find a version for Windows here.
Windows
SharePod Unlike other utilities designed to copy music from an iPod to a computer, Jeffrey Harris’ free, open-source SharePod must be installed on the iPod rather than a host computer. Like other tools, it can extract music from the iPod either as individual files or by playlist. It can also copy the iPod’s On The Go playlists. And the program lets you create Winamp playlists from the music on the iPod so you can listen to the iPod’s music without copying the music files to your PC.
The author makes it pretty clear that the program was designed with piracy in mind—along with the features I mention above, SharePod lets those on a network copy music from an iPod mounted on that network.
*iPod Agent* iPodSoft’s $15 iPod Agent has many talents, including transferring Outlook mail, appointments, calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes to your iPod. It also can move music from the iPod to your PC. As with the other utilities I’ve mentioned, iPod Agent can export single songs or playlists. It won’t, however, export the iPod’s On The Go playlists.
I misplaced my original iPod Classic over a year ago (asumed stolen). WELL, I found it last night by accident under the sliding storage compartment attached to the bottom of the passenger seat in my van, good news! But I cannot seem to get the music onto my replacement iPod Classic. I have transferred the music into my computer, but iTunes wants to erase the music before it will sync it. How can I get around this problem? In short, I want the music from the old iPod transferred into the replacement iPod.
Thanks, Andy
Thanks, Andy
Give this a shot, as I
never auto-sync my ipod, ran into too many issues trying to simply add an extra artist or editing this and that and finding I now have to wait for the ipod to sync...
Have your new iPod Classic plugged in and when in iTunes select that ipod.
Under options, check "Manually manage music and videos"
This should let you keep all your music already on the new ipod while adding more.
I hope I got it right. Cheers.
Have your new iPod Classic plugged in and when in iTunes select that ipod.
Under options, check "Manually manage music and videos"
This should let you keep all your music already on the new ipod while adding more.
I hope I got it right. Cheers.
transfering music from old iPod to new