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My computer crashed and i lost all songs saved on itunes! Is there a way of copying songs from my iPod back to iTunes? 

Did you actually lose all songs saved on iTunes or has the database just become corrupt? have you searched for the files on your hard drive or is that dead?

Charl:

My computer crashed and i lost all songs saved on itunes! Is there a way of copying songs from my iPod back to iTunes? 

Yes.

First of all, you need to make sure that your ITunes won't sync to your Ipod when you connect up. Otherwise, you will wipe your Ipod too. Connect your ipod to your computer and go into My Computer. Click on your Ipod there. You then need to be crafty as for some reason Apple don't want people to do this. You need to click Organize and then Folder Search Options. Click View and then you will see a list of options. You will see that under Hidden Files and Folders, Do not show hidden files and folders is checked. You need to change this to Show hidden files.

You then go back to My Computer and when you click on your Ipod a new folder will appear. I forget the name of it now. Within this folder, all your songs are hidden, encrypted. If you right click on the folder and click properties you will see if the folder is hidden. If it is, uncheck "hidden" and it will prompt you that this folder and all subfolders will now be shown.

You now need to copy this folder to your desktop. It will take a while if you have lots of songs. Once this has been done, you go into ITunes. You need to add this folder to the library and set ITunes to check all folders to library when in sync mode. It should then send your media from your folder on your desktop (the copy of your Ipod) to your ITunes when you next click sync.

I hope this makes sense.

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Gerrardasnails way will work but you'll end up with files which have meaningless filenames unless things have changed since I last did it that way.

DistortedVision:

You need CopyTrans:

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Gerrardasnails way will work but you'll end up with files which have meaningless filenames unless things have changed since I last did it that way.

No it will work fine. I did a couple of weeks ago for the missus. I don't even own an Ipod but it works perfectly.

But if he only has an 8 gig ipod and 40 gig of music.........

I say again, how did your computer 'crash'?

Download Touchcopy, plug in your iPod , (it will find it) and all items on your ipod will appear in this library, you can then highlight the items you want transfared, click on the itunes icon and it will start transfaring to your itunes library.

The computer tech suspects a virus jammed up hard drive, fortunately i back up my work related files every evening.

i have 23GB of music on iPod classic 80GB.

Gerrard, i clicked on ipod in My Computer but can't see Organize option or Folder Search options.

found it, busy copying. will let you know how it turns out.

Gerrard, thanks. All my songs are back on itunes!!

Gerrard,

I had the same problem and tried your method, thanks it saved my computer from being thrown out of the window in frustration

 Adrian

Charl:

Gerrard, thanks. All my songs are back on itunes!!

No worries Charl.

adrian5127:

Gerrard,

I had the same problem and tried your method, thanks it saved my computer from being thrown out of the window in frustration

 Adrian

No problem, glad it all worked out.