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How to get songs off your iPod w/ iTunes


The Question: How do i get songs that are on my ipod into my music library on itunes?

I answered it here but through searching I have found an even easier way of doing this. First things first, we still have to prep the ipod up a little bit.

1. Enable your iPod to act as a disk drive.
To do this plug your iPod into your computer and open iTunes. To enable this method, right click on your iPod icon that is in the left hand column and select iPod options. Once this has been selected you should have a screen that has 2 sets of tabs. The first (top) tab should be set to iPod. The inner (middle) tab should be set on music. If you look on that screen there is a empty box that says ENABLE DISK USE. Click the box and click ok. Once this has been completed we can now close iTunes, (or leave it open). Now go to ‘My Computer’, and see if your iPod is being recognized as a disk drive. Your iPod should fall inline after any extra hardrives or CDroms and should read ‘Removable Disk’. If your iPod is showing up, great! You have completed step 1.

2. Enable Hidden Files
This next step requires us to actully see what is on the iPod through windows explorer. Double click on your iPod icon. Once it’s opened, go to Tools > Folder Options and click the View tab. You’ll see a bunch of different options for the way Windows displays files. In the Hidden files and folders section, select “Show hidden files and folders”, then click OK. Then close that window. Now we are able to view hidden files. If you would like to change your settings back, follow the same steps except choose: Do Not show hidden files and file folders.

3. Now we are ready to go find our music on our iPod.
After hidden files are visible, you should see a new folder in your iPod. The folder name is Ipod_Control, and should look greyed out. Note: All hidden folders are greyed out, in order to distinguish hidden files from non-hidden files. Enter the Ipod_Control folder and click on the Music folder. Here you should see a bunch of folders that have F00, F01, F02, etc… Each folder contains about 50-70 songs. If you click on one of the folders you can open it and see that your music is there. The only problem with this music is that it is all renamed to random letters and numbers which I will get back to. If you want to back up your whole iPod, which is recommended if you have the diskspace. The last step we need to do is unhide the Music folder and subfolders that the music on the iPod is in. First go to your iPod as a hard drive, Open iPod_control, and you should see 3 folders greyed out. If you do not see iPod control see step 2. Click on the music folder and right click it and select properties. There should be a section that says attributes. Uncheck the hidden box and click apply. It will then ask you how you want to apply these changes. Select the “apply changes to selected subfolders and files” and click ok. Now your files should be visible for itunes to see them.

4. Import songs through Itunes using CONSOLIDATE.

This step is by far the easiest. First open itunes. If you would like to make sure only files from your iPod are backed-up/moved than take everything out of your iTunes library. You do not have to delete the files. Keep them but move them out of your iTunes Library. IMPORTANT It might also be a good idea to have your iPod manually update for now, so you do not lose your entire music collection. To do this click on Edit tab, and click preferences. Choose iPod and first tab, Music. On the third selection you can tell your iPod to manually update, meaning you drag and drop things you want on it(you can always change this later). Now we are ready. Next choose file from top menu, and add folder to library… Now browse to the iPod that is acting as a hard drive, click and open iPod control, and you should see a music folder now. When music is blue select ok, and watch all your songs from your iPod be imported into iTunes. Now that these files are in iTunes you see that the funny letters and numbers for each song do not show up anymore. Now we have our songs in the library and the actual song files are still on the iPod. If you were to disconnect your iPod the songs would not play in iTunes. To copy all songs in your iTunes library to your computer we will use the consolidate feature, which will bring all songs from your iPod to your My music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ folder and sort the artists into folders nice and neat. Beware: This will take a little while to do so you may want to do it when you do not need your computer for a while.

Now wait and you have all of your music backed up or restored to your harddrive, all using iTunes! Thanks again Endgaget for the picture!

Thanks for reading and enjoy YOUR music! Thanks for asking the question Nathan your free song is on the way!

UPDATE - A Much easier way can be found using this program Sharepod You can run it directly from your iPod too which means you can do it from any windows based PC.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 11:54 am and is filed under news, ipod, tutorials, Ask the Buzz. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

170 Responses to “How to get songs off your iPod w/ iTunes”

  1. Stupid. Just pay $25 and get anapod explorer.

  2. […] eine Anleitung wie man die Songs vom iPod auf den PC zurück bekommt, ohne spezielle Software dafür zu brauchen.read more | digg story […]

  3. Good stuff. There is an easier way to do this though. If you don’t mind downloading a program, just get “ephpod.” You can just hit a button and it will back all your songs up onto your computer, sort them neatly into folders, and all of that. Personally, I think that is a better way to do it.

  4. The problem with this method is that you don’t retain playlists, playcounts, and ratings, all of which are essential parts of my iPod/iTunes experience.

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  6. Bad advice, don’t do it this way, you will lose a whole lot of meta data, I did :-( You’re best off installing another bit of (free) software to do this.

  7. “The problem with this method is that you don’t retain playlists, playcounts, and ratings, all of which are essential parts of my iPod/iTunes experience” I will look into a way to have these restored. Thanks for the feedback.

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  9. There’s a lovely little program called “podUtil”; Google it sometime. It’s free and will get all your metadata in a smooth and efficient manner. Have fun!

  10. Lets make it even easier - SET your ipod for disk use, connect it, go to the itunes FILE menu, choose ADD Folder to library, browse to your iPod’s Drive, and choose the music folder… DONE…. you lose nothing this way…

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  12. Ever thought of using ephpod?

  13. good stuff f paying for anapod explorer it is your music and even if it isnt SWEEEEEEEEEET

  14. Sure this will work, just like tieing a piece of string to an a loose tooth and slamming a door will work (A little over zealous on the analogy).

    If you want easy….

    Mac - Senuti
    Windows - Ephpod

  15. This is pretty handy actually for those of us who have no aspirations of “leetness.”

    In addition something I found out, is that if you skip the steps where you Explore through the ipod and turn off the “hidden” attribute, you can perform tihs inside itunes, when you go to “File->Add Folder to Library,” browse to the ipod, right click on it, and select preferences, then uncheck the “hidden” attribute.

  16. Actually, Sharepod is a free program. It goes directly on your iPod and runs from your iPod. You just select the songs you want and download it. $25 saved and you can share your songs with all of your friends without memorizing a pain in the ass way to show up a bunch of fucked up filenames :) Enjoy!

  17. why not use Yamipod?

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  19. […] This article will show you how to get songs off of your your iPod, with any computer that has iTunes on it. This tutorial was written for total noobs so send it to your family members who are always bugging you about how to do things. Step 4 is all you need to look at if your computer savvy.read more | digg story […]

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  21. […] I had a recent post with directions for retrieving the music from your iPod. MP3Buzz has posted similar directions with screenshots to help you along the way. Looking at the comments on their post, many users have exclaimed the wonders of utilities like Anapod Explorer, EphPod and PodUtil. Those programs offer fluff like recovering your playlists and some integration with iTunes. However, I see no reason to spend even $5 on a program that does what you can do on your own.Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]

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  25. Whoa, it worked. This 13 year old would like to thank you. I was afraid all my songs would be deleted. Thanks again.

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  27. Thankyou so much, this has saved me a lot of re-downloading songs after I wiped my hard drive last week.

    Cheers.

  28. […] This article will show you how to get songs off of your your iPod, with any computer that has iTunes on it. This tutorial was written for total noobs so send it to your family members who are always bugging you about how to do things. Step 4 is all you need to look at if your computer savvy.read more | digg story […]

  29. OH MAN THANK YOU!Recently all my iTunes music just went away.I dont no what I did to delete all my music.But thanks to this you not only saved me mony on a stupid program,but save my music.This worked like a charm and even though people are dissing your tutorial,I think its awsome!I garantee you,that your helping people.

  30. OMG THANX BRA!!!!!!!!! I have been trying too figure out how too get my ipod songs on my laptop forever and i finally ran across you and your advice :) . thanx again

  31. y not use yamipod it does it all 4 you. its free, small, and u can put it on you ipod if its in harddrive mode.

  32. THANX SOOOO MUCH like I almost lost 20,000 songs and I couldnt figure out how to get them back then I came across your advice, thanx so much I would have bin trying to get them back on my dell forever.

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  34. This is awesome I’ve been looking for this for a long time and found it. It really works!

  35. good thing about this program is that it lets you download 1 song or all of them all right from iTunes

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  36. thanks a lot… i tried the “simple way” of transfering my music, and it all disappeared. thats really awesome. you guys are awesome. BOOOOO

  37. You ROCK! You made it all so easy! Thanks for that. Our music is back! BOOYA!

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  40. […] Update: I did this and then used this to get my library and metadata off my iPod and into iTunes on the laptop. (Later I’ll copy it to some external media of some kind — though Truck’s laptop has plenty of unused space, and my iPod’s only a 20Gb and it’s not full — and that media I will backup ad infinitum and guard with my LIFE.) Comments: […]

  41. Nice site I found … Plan on coming back later to spend a little time there.

  42. Wow wtf i do all this shit then go to consolidate my library and it doesnt work and now i have nothing on my ipod….fucking ass

  43. how do you use the consolidate feature to bring all my songs into my itunes library folder??

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  45. This is so cool and saved me so much money and time. IT’S AWESOME!

  46. I’ve read through some posts and from what I gather, either the this How-To works perfectly or completely screws your Library up. Is the key thing here to move everything in the iTunes library out first? What happens if I don’t move the files out of the library and just have my iTunes & iPod set to manual update? Would this How-To work if I only have a handful out of the thousands of songs on my iPod that I wanted to transfer to my computer/iTunes?

    Thanks!

  47. EASY! walked through everything. only thing no playlist but i really need the songs off my ipod so i

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  49. You made it all so easy! Thanks for that.
    It really works!

  50. what if the songs on the ipod came from a mac computer

    and you want to put the songs from the ipod to a windows computer?

    whats a good program for that?
    that is free?

  51. olivier.rouchaud on December 10th, 2006 at 4:13 pm

    the problem for me is that even after enabling to see hidden files and folders the folders still do not show in explorer, although the size of the drives indicates that a lot of space is used, so that probably the files are there somewhere, any idea how to see them?

  52. Thank you!!!! took a second,
    accualy a quite a few… :)

    but it works!!
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  53. thankyou so much! it helped heaps!

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  55. eddy and the freeeeks on January 7th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

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  56. Thanks, this worked great. Yeah, so you’ve got to lean in and read the directions a little carefully since its mushed together in paragraph form, (and i think i need new glasses) but everything transferred just great. Of course, ha, the trick with me is i’ve got a mini that still is working well that only holds a quarter of what my library owns. Sigh.

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  58. Much better than downloading a program (no viruses) and easy.

  59. all I needed was step 4 and the add folder function…wish I had figured that out a while ago…its was easy and fast thanks!

  60. Thanks! this was quick and easy (wish i had figured it out or read this a long time ago) but i got everything to my itunes but when i disconnect it it wont le me play :( so im trying to figure out what happened cuz in step 4 u tell us….thanx anyways

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  65. komputerKluelessGirl on February 8th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

    OMG thank u soooooooooo much for this info! i am rocking out to my songs that USED to be on my ipod on my comp RIGHT NOW! and my ipod is in the car HAHA
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  66. i got my music into my itunes library but they all have exclamation points and won’t play. how do i get them to play?

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  68. Well this worked for me, getting the music onto iTunes, but I copied the songs and pasted some into a folder on my computer and it was in the same format as it was in the original folders from ipod_control. I would try using iTunes to put them onto my computer, but someone said that messed everything up, and with the luck I’ve had with my whole ordeal, I really didn’t want to risk it. So then I found another way to do this with Winamp! and while I’m still running it, it’s working so far! I have Winamp pro (I didn’t buy it I got it by file sharing, but whatever). But I just went to “portables” in the media libary, selected all, copy to local media, and when you copy from local media that puts them into your music folder automatically, and stays when your ipod is disconnected. I don’t know if anything will turn up wrong in the end, but this is working very well so far.

  69. does ephpod suport the brand new nanos?

  70. Why spend $25 dollars when you can do it for free…it probably takes just as little time also.

  71. This is kind of difficult to follow and I had to read over it a few times before it worked, but when you take the time and read it? and do it step by step it only takes about 15 min at the most…Thanks for the help

  72. I’ve always found it weird that you have to go through bizzare lengths to get music off the ipod

  73. wow, thanks so much. that made it SO simple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  74. my itunes doesnt put songs in my ipod what i should do now

  75. THIS IS EVIL

  76. I lost all of my music….Thank you. Thank you very much.

  77. Best FREE programs to use to do this and better is 1. Yamipod 2. Ephpod 3. Sharepod

    Next is non-free programs to use is 1. PodUtil 2. anapod explorer

    Best non-program is doing it yourself the hard way….

  78. LOL ! This method is total crap, it wiped every single one of my songs from iTunes, and accordingly, Ipod could not read them anymore — (eg: Itunes couldnt even put them on my ipod, or play them) After this method.

    Maybe the update awhile back fixed this?

    You guys are crazy for trying this, cause 9 times out of 10, you’re going to lose everything. I did this method for only 10 songs, out of my 500+ Library, and now i have 0 Song in it, and a bunch of errors when I try to Add those folders with things like (F844749384). Thanks jerk !

  79. So, I’m having issues enabling my iPod to act as a disk drive. I right click on the icon there is nothing for me to click on that says options. Here are the choices it gives me:
    -Open
    -Eject
    -Sync
    -Transfer Purchases
    -Reset Warnings
    Am I just being incredibly dense and missing something?

  80. I need to find out why a bunch of podcasts are impossible to view or delete. They are on the ipod, ands show up when I scroll through, yet when plugged in to the computer, they suddenly don’t exist. It won’t let me delete any of them because it hides them somehow. I want them gone! What the hell is going on?

  81. Thank you so much! Finally I have my Ipod on my laptop. It wasnt that difficult at all nothing went wrong! Thanks again for helping me tot enjoy my music!

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  98. When you consolidate your music to copy into your itunes folder make sure you enable the Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized feature in the Preferences on the advanced tab. This will change the title of all your files to match the song title when copying music to the iTunes Music folder. Without this feature enabled the music will still sort into folders by artists and subfolders by album but the files will be in the somewhat random letter and number titles that you see when viewing them on your iPod as a drive.

  99. Hi,

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  100. ‘IMPORTANT It might also be a good idea to have your iPod manually update for now, so you do not lose your entire music collection. To do this click on Edit tab, and click preferences. Choose iPod and first tab, Music. On the third selection you can tell your iPod to manually update, meaning you drag and drop things you want on it(you can always change this later’

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  101. OMG.
    this worked like a miracle!
    thanks soooo much!
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  102. do you need to consolidate the songs?
    Can’t you just re-convert it and it’ll go to your iTunes folder neatly?

    Awesome info though. =D

  103. Thanks, man! My computer is copying at the moment, 60GB in total, about 2/3 of my classical CD collection. A peace of mind, finally.

    Actually, I found the steps very simple and logical. The essence is “add a folder to library”.

    BTW, maybe you want to add one sentence on what “consolidate” library means. It took me 5 minutes to figure it out (I haven’t used iTunes much).

    Thanks also to the guy who commented on enabling the “Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized” option.

  104. thanks man for the advise now i got ma friends songs from his ipod in to ma itunes library, keep up with the good work.

  105. Thanks for that, you’re a lifesaver. My ipod has been playing up and it took me absolutely ages to get the music on it. For some reason, the music was not saved in my library. Now it is.
    Cheers

  106. all my music went on then it couldnt copy them from the library because it couldnt find the original files…i have no songs now

  107. thanks. =)
    i dont care if there was easier ways, this worked.

  108. Every time I choose to update my Video or Photo on iPod it asks for sync and erases all music files if not available on my PC. How to add movies or photoes without erasing the iPod?

  109. This definately works - I had a new hard drive fitted into my comp and thought I would never be able to get my stuff across from my ipod to itunes, and I didn’t really like the idea of downloading software. Took me a little while - but definately worth it, thanks a million!

  110. All of the stuff on my ipod didn’t show up. I don’t think this works :-(

  111. I got so lost on how to do dis just kidding it was so easy thanks alot

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  117. I am so glad I found this info from this site. I couldn’t figure it out to save my life and now I have my songs back in my Itunes Library. Thanks!!!!

  118. I don’t get when you say: IMPORTANT It might also be a good idea to have your iPod manually update for now, so you do not lose your entire music collection. To do this click on Edit tab, and click preferences. Choose iPod and first tab, Music. On the third selection you can tell your iPod to manually update, meaning you drag and drop things you want on it(you can always change this later).

  119. For me this was wayyy helpful!!!! but then again all i wanted to do was get the music from my ipod. i guess some of the other guys had problems with their playlists or whatever, but all my music got through.

  120. For me this was wayyy helpful!!!! but then again all i wanted to do was get the music from my ipod. i guess some of the other guys had problems with their playlists or whatever, but i dont care about that. all my music got through.

  121. Thanks a million! Worked like a charm.

  122. Thanks a million! Worked like a charm.

  123. This is actually not that slow and seems to be working really well, though manually updating is much easier on mine - i only needed to click in the left hand navigation and select manually transfer. Consolidation option is in the advanced tab at the top of the screen. Make sure the music is consolidating to the right place - in Edit>Options>Advanced.

    A lot of the time, all the files are deleted when you try and do something else while iTunes is busy, I think that’s how I messed up my computer files in the first place - so don’t fiddle till you know iTunes isn’t doing anything.

    Thanks!

  124. srsly, this saved me 40$ you are a life saver!

  125. i did this but if you have to have your ipod plugged in anyway, what was the point of getting them?
    and i dont get how to make it so that you dont have to ahve it plugged in :S
    help anyone?
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  126. I have a problem :( i cant use any of these methods because i cant locate my ipod in the first place. So i cant start ephpod :( Help please

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  132. I had lost all my files wwhen my computer crashed and had over 2000 songs on itunes and have been tryin to do what i just did in 5 minutes for 3 months. This is amazing!!!

  133. Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for.

  134. Thank you so much for this information! It totally worked and the directions were made simple! THANK YOU!

  135. Absolutely Amazing! Took me a little while to figure out the ENABLE DISK USE, even though it was staring at me straight in the face on the summary page of iTunes.

    THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO MUCH!!!!!!! My hard drive crashed a couple months back, and this has been a savior (had over 50 movies on my iPod).

  136. This is pretty simple to follow and I got all my music. So I think its a pretty darn good tutorial. Cheers guys

  137. Ive used this trick many times now, and it works everytime, its free and easy to do.

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  140. i tried right clicking on the ipod icon on the left side of the itunes screen, and Ipod options was not one of the menu items. how do i put my ipod into disk mode?

  141. i dont have the ipod icon from the 1st point (in the left hand side column) can you help please?!

  142. i dont have the ipod icon from the 1st point (in the left hand side column) can you help please?!

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  144. Yeah. Well, step three didn’t work for me correctly. When I tried adding the Music folder to iTunes after doing everything correctly, it wouldn’t load the songs. I tried the process at least five times, but it still didn’t work out. So finally, while trying to figure it out, I thought that maybe if I unhid my iPod Control folder, it might work. So that’s what I did. I used the same process as with the Music folder, and then iTunes finally loaded my songs. So, yeah. Just wanted people to know that if step three doesn’t work correctly, try this.

  145. Oh my goodness, i never leave comments on anything, but this like saved my life! thank you so so much!

  146. On my itunes I can not enable it. I right click and the only options that come up are: Eject, new playlist, Backup, Restore from backup, and reset warnings. What do I do????

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  150. very helpful thank you

  151. How do you do the consolidate feature so the music will play after you unplug the iPod?

  152. This is brilliant for my situation - while the iPod was working fine, none of the iPod ripping software would work because there was an apparent problem connecting to the iPod database. I tried iPodRip, Floola, SharePod and EphPod and they all failed miserably. But good old iTunes worked fine.

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  153. Thank you for the instructions! I thought I was going to have to wipe my iPod clean in order to add new music! My PC crashed and the hard drive had to be cleaned. When I tried to add a new album to the device, iTunes told me I’d have to replace my iPod files with the “new” almost-empty library! There should be no reason to HAVE to download or buy a new program to do something this simple.

  154. Thank you so much for this post. I inherited my son’s old iPod, and although some of the music he had on it, I will delete, I didn’t want to start from scratch. How frustrating to have to go through all this just to KEEP the music he already had on it.

    Again, thank you.

  155. All those programs aforementioned I’m sure are great, but the instructions in this article are clear, accurate, and easy! It took my about five minuets to have my songs transferring off my ipod to itunes. I don’t see why anyone would want to take the unnecessary step in downloading software you’ll probably only use once.

  156. worked good for me.
    i couldnt find a free ipod program without been a trial for 3 songs.
    so this was the cheap easy way. good stuff.

  157. Hey man you helped me out so much.If i hadnt of found this then i dont know what i would have done. And for the people dissing this they need to shutup

  158. Thanks… worked like a charm!

  159. Thanks, I am soo happy now!!! :)

  160. You have explained this well, Have you been working on this a long time?? Do you think you have described everything correctly though I have noticed some common mistakes but I get the point your making? I will link your blog to mine.

  161. Thank you! I didn’t want to miss with downloading software after a rash of recent problems and your methos worked fine. I put the whole list in real player and the songs all showed up also. As a not especially intuitive computer user, I really appreciated the level of detail. Thank you and happy 2010

  162. Its a very good article i never thought about this

  163. THANKYOU SOOO MUCH I LOVE YOU.. LOL… ive personaly tried all the programs recomended and they all fucked up and did shit all.. thankyou for your help :)

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  165. When I click on Ipod on the left column of Itunes, I don’t have a “Ipod Options” button. All I see are Eject, Transfer Purchases, New Playlist, and Reset Warnings

  166. You are a life and time saver!!! Very user friendly advice and quick and easy. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU :-)

  167. This was soooo helpful dude I thought i was gonna lose all my music but then i thought, ‘’hey i cant be the only person with this problem'’ then this website showed up like a miracle

    GOD BLESS UU!!

  168. Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for:) x

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  170. This is amazing, thanks so much! And transferring playlists was pretty easy too (dunno if someone commented on this cuz i didnt’ bother to read through them all) but once all your songs are in your itunes again you can just export the playlists saved on your ipod so it saves as like a text file and then import them again back into your library. it takes like no time at all to do that and then you can keep all your playlists too =)

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