hey, well the other day i found an ipod, it has 1700 songs on it, they quite good so what i want to do is take all the songs off the ipod and store them into my libary that has like 2000 songs, to give me 3700.

So i need a 3rd party program to transer the data from the ipod to my laptop, is this possible and if so is there any good programs to do it?


Thanks

P.Toye

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Hand the iPod in at the police station or something. That could have took someone years to save up for..

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Originally posted by Dazzy
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Hand the iPod in at the police station or something. That could have took someone years to save up for..

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Here's one that works pretty good: http://www.longfingers.com/ipodfolder/

hm. floola works nicely.

i have done it using ipod> folder that chris uk said, but where are they saved

That's stealing songs!

If you browse the drive, you will find the mp3 songs, with hashed filenames. The files are essentially intact though, id3 data and all.

Anapod Explorer-
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

It's a really good program,last time I checked  you have to pay for it. There is a trial version that may be able to do what you want still.

thanks everyone

I have got it done

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Originally posted by banky
Anapod Explorer-
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

It's a really good program,last time I checked  you have to pay for it. There is a trial version that may be able to do what you want still.

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Can't you just do File -> Import Folder and choose the iPod as the import folder?

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Originally posted by Ezra
Can't you just do File -> Import Folder and choose the iPod as the import folder?

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Ezra
Can't you just do File -> Import Folder and choose the iPod as the import folder?

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nope cause their names are hashed nonsense

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Originally posted by Verte
here's probably a script somewhere for extracting ID3 tags and renaming files accordingly.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Verte
here's probably a script somewhere for extracting ID3 tags and renaming files accordingly.

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of course... but don't you think thats more work than ipod > folder ?

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Originally posted by Verte
Huh? Well.. I guess if you're using some sort of library system, file names aren't important. If you ever want to maintain your collection, I'd recommend getting the names in order before the merge though.

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Originally posted by Verte
Huh? Well.. I guess if you're using some sort of library system, file names aren't important. If you ever want to maintain your collection, I'd recommend getting the names in order before the merge though.

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dude, have you tried it =/? names are set up perfectly fine with ipodfolder... got 2,500 songs to prove it...

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Originally posted by Verte
Didn't try it, as it requires iTunes, and iTunes is a horrible buggy kludge,

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Verte
Didn't try it, as it requires iTunes, and iTunes is a horrible buggy kludge,

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It doesn't need itunes.
itunes=suckage, i don't have it installed.

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Originally posted by Verte
Aah, ok. I just saw "* iPod software must be installed on the computer" and thought, no thanks. I never really got iTunes. I consider myself fairly technically adept, but it took me half an hour to work out how to put music onto the iPod. Then, it sets itself as the default for everything and starts a heap of pointless daemons. I always thought mac was about user interface simplicity, but it would be so much nicer just to put the music you want on your iPod into a directory and be done with it.

Anyway, this one is well and truly solved

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Originally posted by Voldemort
yeah, that's why floola>*

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