Q: My Macbook air got wiped. How do I put my music that is on my iPod back to iTunes?
I lost everything on my macbook air. Had to restore to factory settings. How do I get my music back that is on my iPod back on to my ITunes library?
iPod nano (6th generation), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Sep 14, 2015 8:11 AM
Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself independently backed up against loss. To use a device with a different setup you transfer the old library from a computer or a backup directly to the new setup, not the device to the library. Media syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
Redownload or transfer your iTunes Store purchases from an iPhone, iPad or iPod to a computer - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201267 - "This feature works only for content bought from the iTunes Store."
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. See this document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991 Even this method may not fully recover what you had in the library originally. For example if in order to save space when syncing you had converted music files to a lower bitrate, or photos to a lower resolution, it is those lower quality files you will recover. I believe it also will only recover media, not playlists, ratings, play cont, etc.
Posted on Sep 17, 2015 11:13 AM
