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having used up pokerstars fpp points a while back to get an I-Pod Nano and downloaded about 40 CD's onto my laptop and transferred onto my I-Pod.

Since then i had problems with my laptop and had to send it back to have the hard drive repaired which wiped all the saved music off. Is there any way i can now transfer the songs back from the I-Pod back onto the laptop or will i have to go thru the process of copying it from CD again?

I have a free download on pc called ipod2computer it works

Bongo recommended Songbird a bit back, that's a nice bit of software.

Actually, I'm not sure if you can offload from your ipod with that or not!   Get it anyway, it's nice :D

can you not just choose to manually manage music on itunes a pull them onto the new pc?

I was wondering the same thing - thanks for this solution

Ok, downloaded free software and indeed it seems to save ipod songs onto computer - now how do i get them back onto ITunes?

I noticed there was an option that cost me £8.05 that seemed to say the songs would be put back onto ITunes - is this the only way to do it?

I think you just copy the files into your itunes folder. Alternatively I think you can highlight all the files in their current location and tell computer to "play all". It then plays all the files at the same time, and once they're playing they're automatically picked up by itunes. I'm pretty certain this is the case anyway - I had to do this myself but it was a while back.

Well when i open up the folder i have a text file, 2 other folders and an itl file - one of the folders is titled "previous itunes files" and when you open it up it is empty. The second folder says "Itunes music" and when you open that i get lots of folders, each one is named after an artist on my Ipod. However when you open these individual folders there is nothing inside.

The only thing that looks promising is the itl file which has a little music symbol with the word data written on it but when i try to play that nothing happens apart from it opens ITunes. I have tried to copy and paste it and that doesnt work, I've tried opening it with another media program and it says that they dont support the file name.

Hmmm, this has given me the motivation to back up my iTunes to DVD and then never face this problem - cheers!

When I did it I used ephpod (at ephpod.com). The music files downloaded, IIRC, into the MyMusic folder on my pc (rather than into any itunes folder). So they became generic music files rather than itunes files. Then when I played them itunes imported them automatically.

Afraid I can't be more helpful though.

Oops a thousand apologies......I did pay the £8

free and it works provided you pay the £8? :D

Now its a race - lets see which is quicker, me burning cd's again to laptop or my bank sending me a replacement debit card (provided the site takes debit instead of credit cards)!

start -> control panel -> add and remove programs -> Itunes -> remove


should solve at least 90% of your problems....

That was the route I took.  Can't stand the way iTunes works (or doesn't work) on a PC.

I do remember this nifty bit of software though:

http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

Something like £15, and it lets you use the windows explorer interface to move files to and from your ipod.

Songbird is free and iPod compatable!  Bongo's converting the world to it slowly, I've joined in and we roped someone in last week (damn I can't remember who it was - sorry!)

Join the revolution :)

i can join any revolution you like provided i dont have to pay for anything using a debit or credit card as i dont have either.

whatever happened to the good old days of paying for things with good old fashioned hard cash? :(

It's free!!  Go download it Monkeh

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

Yes sir - well once i get home anyway :)up

i hope you dont boss your wife about like this? ;)

He wishes!!!!

:hello: Mrs Silo

http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/musicrescue/

I saw this posted in a thread on the same subject on a different message board.

It says it works without buying it but it will moan at you, so should be ok just this once.

lol :D