[DM-MUG] Copy music from ipod

Bryan Baker ka_klick at mac.com
Thu Dec 14 10:42:35 CST 2006


Answering myself, looks like a limited form of that is now built into  
iTunes:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/sync/transfer.html

but it looks like only ITMS purchases (the hardest part to replace)  
will get pulled over.

http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/ip_gettingstarted_t14.html


On Dec 14, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Bryan Baker wrote:
> Sorry, all the talk of drive recovery, and I didn't follow the link.
> Actually come to think of it, isn't there an option in the latest  
> versions of iTunes to rebuild your library from your iPod on first  
> connect?
>
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Darcy Baston wrote:
>> When you say die, do you mean goes into a clicking frenzy and then  
>> stops working? If it's dead, as in no rotation of the platters,  
>> you won't get anything off of it. I'll assume you mean it still  
>> spins up when you say 'die', and use that meaning in here.
>>
>> I've used a utility called http://fadingred.org/senuti/ in that  
>> situation. Often if you reboot the ipod often enough, the hard  
>> drive comes to life long enough to do some copying. When mine  
>> died, twice (original and replacement), I rebooted over and over  
>> until the ipod booted up, and then transferred data off.
>>
>> On Thursday, December 14, 2006, at 08:31AM, "Dave Weis"  
>> <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a client whose hard drive died and the only copy of their  
>>> music is
>>> on their ipod. Which software works best to copy that back off?  
>>> It's on G4
>>> running 10.4.
>>>
>>> THanks
>>> dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
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