Getting music off the ipod

johnhenry · April 10, 2004 2:10AM

I have a real problem. My hard drive just crashed hard. I have a somewhat recent back up of my iphoto pics but my Music is gone

I can re-rip all my cd's, but ALL my music store purchases are gone.

Now I realize I should be backing this stuff up BUT

I do have some of my purchased songs on my ipod. I remember there is a program to move those files off the pod onto my computer.

Anyone remember this program

On a side note, I will NEVER buy music from the itunes music store again.

I lost all my audible stuff to but audible keeps those on their server so i can re-download them. Why in gods name doesn't apple do this? I really shouldn't have to burn backups of purchased music.

thedustin · April 10, 2004 2:43AM

pod manager works great for me.

_thedustin

gargoyle · April 10, 2004 4:28AM

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Originally posted by JohnHenry

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On a side note, I will NEVER buy music from the itunes music store again.

I lost all my audible stuff to but audible keeps those on their server so i can re-download them. Why in gods name doesn't apple do this? I really shouldn't have to burn backups of purchased music.

Whinge, whinge, whinge!!!

Why do you think Apple should be responsible for your stupidity?

Here's an idea - goto your local music store (a real one) with the receipt for the last CD you purchased. Go to the counter and say that you broke the CD and you would like a replacement. See how far you get?!? If you paid cash for the CD how are you going to explain to the staff that this is YOUR receipt and not one you just found on the floor (assuming it is not marked by someone's crappy footprint)?

johnhenry · April 10, 2004 12:49PM

Yes, but this isn't comparable to breaking ONE cd, this is comparable to my house burning down and losing ALL my CD's (which insurance would cover)

All I am saying is if Audible can do it, why not Apple?

And as far as stupidity, do you burn a backup of every freaking song you download? Thats a lot of Time/CD's.

Thanks thedustin!

ryukyu · April 10, 2004 12:58PM

I've used and recommend iPodRip .

You can use it 10 times for free and if you decide to buy, it's only $9.00. Well worth the headache it can save you.

iPodRip also copies your playlists over to the Mac, whereas I know some software does not. I can't speak for pod manager with regard to this.

hom · April 10, 2004 1:20PM

I just use Tinker Tool to show hidden files in the Finder. You can navigate the folders on the iPod that contains the music. One thing to note is that if you just drag and drop the folders off the iPod they won't show up after you turn off hidden folders. Best way to do it is to drag the files directly from the folders into iTunes. It will then be copied over and iTunes will recreate the file structure for your library.

gargoyle · April 10, 2004 3:52PM

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Originally posted by JohnHenry

And as far as stupidity, do you burn a backup of every freaking song you download? Thats a lot of Time/CD's.

I backup everything I wouldn't want to loose. That mean on my mac I backup my entire home folder, iTunes Music Folder included. I only leave copies of my music in my car.

As for insurance, yes that seems like a good idea. I am sure you will find some company willing to insure your data against loss - not sure what the premiums would be like tho.

What you are not doing, is thinking of the problem from the seller's (Apple) perspective. Apple probably had to work damn hard to get the music industry to agree to setting iTMS up properly.

As far as I am concerned once you have downloaded your copy of the music - keeping it safe is down to you. If the track had been corrupt after download, I believe you can contact support to sort out a re-download.

ti fighter · April 15, 2004 2:05PM

this is a nice one cuz it's a script that works right in iTunes

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15951

joey · April 15, 2004 3:51PM

I'm not a big fan of paying for compressed music to start with... let alone something that I can only play on my iPod (I have a number of digital audio players... only one of which is an iPod). I still have my stuff backed up the old fashioned way... on the original CD

That way I can choose what type of compression I want to use... and do so without DRM.

mattjohndrow · April 15, 2004 8:53PM

i use iPodRip, i bought it, it is awesome, i also use a script called iPod to iTunes, or something like that, but iPodRip is so so so soooo powerful!

progmac · April 15, 2004 10:05PM

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Originally posted by Gargoyle

Whinge, whinge, whinge!!!

Why do you think Apple should be responsible for your stupidity?

Here's an idea - goto your local music store (a real one) with the receipt for the last CD you purchased. Go to the counter and say that you broke the CD and you would like a replacement. See how far you get?!? If you paid cash for the CD how are you going to explain to the staff that this is YOUR receipt and not one you just found on the floor (assuming it is not marked by someone's crappy footprint)?

i always thought this was a really weak argument. the nature of technology is that it is fickle: hard drives crash, files disappear etc. compare the number of accidental file deletions to physical cds breaking

so i guess you can argue (1) the user has another layer of responsibility -- backup (2) whoops, user error, screw them

anyhow, the ipod is basically a backup anyway. why shouldn't i be able to pull my music off of it? i mean, i don't have the resources for 40gb of backup space in addition to my computer hard drive and ipod.

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