Okay. So you’ve got your iPod and you want to take those songs and transfer them.
Step 1: Go to anywhere on your computer and on the top bar, go Tools => Folder Options…
Step 2: In Folder Options, go under the View tab and make sure “Show Hidden Files and Folders” is checked. Then click OK.
Step 3: Connect your iPod and open up iTunes. Under options, make sure “Enable Disk Use” is enabled. Click Apply. Close iTunes.
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Step 4: Navigate to your iPod in My Computer or whatever you use.
Step 5: Open the folder “iPod_Control”. Then go into the folder “iTunes”
Step 6: Right mouse click “iTunesDB” and select “Open With…”
Step 7: Select Notepad and click OK.
Step 8: So say I wanted to find the song “Winter Love”. Go Edit => Find…
So, to find a song, type the song name with spaces between all the letters. If it has spaces, type 2 spaces where those spaces would be. So Winter Love would become “W i n t e r L o v e”.
Step 9: So if you look ahead of where we just searched, there’s a path that tells the iPod where that specific song is stored. In my case, it’s in “/iPod_Control/Music/F08/ASIX.mp3”.
Step 10: So just navigate to that location on your iPod and there it is.
Step 11: Open it just to make sure that’s the file you want. Then copy it to wherever you need it.
Step 12: When you’re done, either go back and disable disk use in iTunes, or do the following:
Right mouse click the middle icon in the next picture.
Select USB Mass Storage Device and click Stop.
A new window opens up. Make sure “Apple iPod USB Device” is one of the things listed. Click OK.
And you’re done. And by the way, it’s a good idea to keep your music backed up on your computer.
Woow o_o It’s that complicated? I thought it was supposed to be some ordinary feature with iTunes…like a “click the ‘take song from iPod’ button”.
OnionKiD | 2006-11-23 21:12:00
diuuu, that’s so complicated >=( CREATIVE mp3 players for the win LOL x)
Kookie_Jar | 2006-11-24 00:15:00
I am very thankful for my simple-to-use mp3 right now…(hurray for Sony)
evil_chief_genius | 2006-11-24 00:49:00