Comments on: How To: Move Music from iPod to PC in 5 Easy Steps

By: tom

tom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:37:57 +0000

hey guys,
i’m tryin to get my photos from my ipod back on to my PC,
Any ideas
Cheers
Tom

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:32:56 +0000

Hey Mark.. I am unable to see my ipod icon come up in windows explorer. did the first step in showing hidden icons or whatever.. Please email me if you can help me out vincemarchese@gmail.com

By: bisot

bisot — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:56:31 +0000

Thanks very much, I’ll try this now (I already download a software to do this, but I prefer to do this manually)

regards

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:08:23 +0000

Unfortunately, because your external hard drive has to be formatted for *either* mac or pc, if you copy files from a mac onto an external hard drive (which would have to be formatted for mac to do this; otherwise you only have read privileges), your pc won’t be able to see or use those files. A flash drive would work, but if you’ve got 100s of gigs of music like I do, anything smaller than an external hard drive makes this chore a huge pain in the ass. (If anyone has a way around this, I’d love to hear it — I have a mac at home and a pc at work and want to port over my itunes library.)

By: Mark P

Mark P — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:53:21 +0000

This 5 step procedure really works. Thanks a lot Mark O’Neill.
I rather do this than spend around 30 bucks for a program that will do it faster.
This works fine. Now I have all my songs back into my laptop which i lost due to a hard drive
problem which i had to clean out my whole hard drive and lost everything.

Thanks, Mark P

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:00:18 +0000

Keep going with the 5 step process - when you finally move the music back to iTunes, the music will all be renamed for you back to their original names.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:59:41 +0000

I did this just now and it worked but the only problem i had was that my songs have no names, it has been labelled AAZC AECZetc. but they all have album names nd artist names. can anyone help me ?! thanks.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:38:06 +0000

It was SO simple. I had to have the “enable disk use” box checked in the itunes ipd summary window. It’s always the simplest solution….but thanks for the help.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:14:28 +0000

So I’m using vista, and an iPod touch, I got the ’show hidden files and folders’ thing, but I cannot find this ‘iPod_Control’ folder, nor does any ‘iPod’ drive come up in explorer.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:29:48 +0000

I know my computer recognizes that my ipod is hooked up because it shows that it is in itunes and has all the correct data storage information listed in the itunes summary window. also, my ipod works perfectly fine in my docking station and when i am listening with my headphones. also, windows recognizes a USB storage device is plugged in. I will see what that website says though.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:13:49 +0000

the only time that the iPod refuses to move music back from the computer is when it refuses to recognise your legal ownership of those songs (in other words, the DRM of those songs is blocked). Go to iTunes on your computer and make sure that your computer is still the sole authorized computer for those songs. Make sure you are still logged into your iTunes account with those songs and plug in your iPod and make sure that your iPod is set up OK. If everything looks fine, try moving the songs again.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:08:31 +0000

Hmmm….well it should show up (it HAS to show up). So something is wrong with your iPod, your iTunes or your computer. Try one of the following :

1. Check the USB cable for your iPod. It may be malfunctioning. Do you have another one you can try? Check all the USB ports on your computer. Do they have dust or dirt in them? Blow the dust / dirt out or use a cloth to wipe it out (or a small vacuum cleaner). It may be blocking the connection. You may have to remove the side panel from the hard drive and clean from the inside.
2. Remove all other USB devices from the computer first then try the iPod.
3. Reinstall iTunes or check for iTunes updates. iTunes comes with a few addon programs such as iTunesHelper.exe and iTunesService.exe . If these addons are not running, the iPod won’t show up. If you uninstall these addons, either intentionally or accidently, again, the iPod won’t show up.
4. If all that doesn’t work, Google “ipod doesn’t show up in my computer” - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ipod+does+not+show+up+in+my+computer&aq=3&oq=ipod+does+not+show - there’s lots of forum queries you can look through for possibilities.
5. The last ditch possibility is to reformat your Windows - but this is obviously the last possibility.

I would first check the iPod USB cable and your computer USB ports - they may just be on the blink.

By: JD

JD — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:45:07 +0000

I did the 5 steps and it works good, all my yhe music that wason my Ipod is now on my PC. But when I did the sinc with the ipod, did not copy all the music that I have on my Itunes library to the Ipod, there is like 100 songs that can not be move from the PC to the Ipod, I believe these are the songs that I bought from Itunes stores……What can I Do ???

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:42:37 +0000

I have Windows XP, and no folder appears with the name of my iPod in the left-side module of Window’s Explorer.

By: Tij

Tij — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:34:12 +0000

Hey laura,
May be I can help u. Mu mailing address is aninda1994@yahoo.com

Mail me and I will solv your problem

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:53:19 +0000

I must be retarded as I can’t do it!! I have Vista business and I can’t find the hidden thing in tools (feeing like a tool myself actually) Pls help!!

By: wes

wes — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:28:54 +0000

Worked out great for me, but i just have a quick question. Does anyone know if we have to keep the folder with all of the the songs in it once they are on itunes?

By: Bob smith

Bob smith — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:58:34 +0000

You can actually move music from iPod to PC in just one step with CopyTrans http://www.copytrans.net and it will also transfer your playlists and ratings into iTunes.

By: R.E. Knowlton III

R.E. Knowlton III — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:29:06 +0000

Hopefully someone can help me ~

I followed the steps to a tee but still had to copy each individual file (not the folder) over to my Music Library, which was a hassle but it seemed to be working ok. Unfortunately, after I had already moved one whole folder (125 individual files) I was unable to play them back because iTunes was unable to find the original file and because of the scrambled file names I am unable to identify them manually.

PLEASE, someone help me. I have 925 songs from my extensive Frank Zappa collection on my iPod and do not want to spend another two full days ripping them back into iTunes from my CD collection.

All I want to do is back up these songs so I can clear my iPod and be able to down load podcasts, but still have access to the songs so I can make playlists and load them up in the future.

I am using Windows XP and have a 4 gig iPod.

THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH!

R.E. Knowlton III

By: lisarina

lisarina — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:18:08 +0000

I know a way to put the DVD movies and music to iPod, now share to everyone.
Only five steps:

Step 1: Download and install Aiseesoft DVD to iPod

Converter.

Step 2: Click ‘File’ menu and ‘Open DVD’, or directly hit ‘Open DVD’ button to load the DVD.

Step 3: Select the output file formats.

Step 4: Click the “Convert” button on the main interface to start the conversion.

Step 5: Open iTunes and click “File” to add your converted videos to iTunes library and plug in your iPod to

computer, then check the videos you want to sync and click “Apply”, done.

Hope it was helpful to you!