How to transfer Music from iPod to Computer/Windows/Mac

If you purchased all of the songs through itunes store, please follow these steps:
1. Open up Itunes and Click on Itunes Store
2. Once you're in the Itunes Store look to right side of the screen and you should see the word "purchased". Click purchased and you'll be sent to a purchase screen.
3. Click on "All Songs" and then it will show all the songs you've downloaded. From there you just hit the button that looks like a cloud with an arrow on it, and it will download all the songs all over again.

If you didn't purchase them through Itunes, then you'll have to download software to do that.

Hope it helps. Feel free to email me if you need further help.

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There have a lot of different methods to solve the problem,To choose a good method can save a lot of unnecessary trouble for you,like some tools(istonsoft),it is a quick shortcut to transfer music from ipod to Computer/Mac/Windows,Good luck!!

Hope you can solve this problem as soon as possible!!!

1.The first thing you want to do is connect your iPod to your computer via the white USB cable.

2.After your iPod is connected, open My Computer, or just Computer from the start menu and look for the iPod drive. It should be in the (F:drive. You will see the iPod logo in the listing of disk drives.

3.If you are using Windows 7: Open the iPod drive and click on ORGANIZE. Then folder and search options tab. Then View and Show hidden files and folders.

If you are using Windows XP, open the iPod drive and click tools then Folder options then View tab then click show hidden files and folder. Finally click Apply.

4.Now you should have a new folder called ipod_control. Open that folder up and you should see the following: Calendar, Contacts, ipod_control, notes, photos, ect. If you are trying to save all of your music then the ipod_control folder is the only one you need to worry about.

5.Open the ipod_control folder then open the music folder. Copy each one of those folders (should look similar to these: F00, F01 ...) onto your computer. You can do this by creating a new folder on your desktop and dragging the files into the folder.

6.Open iTunes and insert the new folder you created on your computer's desktop into: library ---> Music

You can now transfer music from your iPod to this new computer with out losing all of your music.

Hope it can help you.

Hi, frytimi

If you purchased all of the songs through itunes store, please follow these steps:
1. Open up Itunes and Click on Itunes Store
2. Once you're in the Itunes Store look to right side of the screen and you should see the word "purchased". Click purchased and you'll be sent to a purchase screen.
3. Click on "All Songs" and then it will show all the songs you've downloaded. From there you just hit the button that looks like a cloud with an arrow on it, and it will download all the songs all over again.

If you didn't purchase them through Itunes, then you'll have to download software to do that.

Hope it helps. Feel free to email me if you still have problems about how to transfer music from iPod to computer.

Hello frytimi,

It sounds like you have music that you want to transfer from your iPad to your new computer. You can use the Transfer Purchases function to get your iTunes and App Store purchases copied to your computer:

iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848

Any media that you had imported to your previous iTunes library and synced to your device will have to be re imported to iTunes, and synced over again.

If you still have access to the computer that the iPad used to sync to, you can use this article to copy over the iTunes library from the original computer to the new one:

iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

All the best,

Sterling