Ripping music from an ipod?

[Rorek]

Originally Posted by Millie

Does this affect the songs if you put them back onto iTunes on a different computer? I'd really hate to have to go through every song in my list of 6000 and listen to/rename them by ear.

The tags remain there. When digging through the iPod folders, all the songs will be listed as OTGH.mp3 etc. random series of letters, it's how the iPod sorts everything out, but the songs themselves are still tagged with artist/title/album etc. If you drop the window viewing method to "Details" you can see all the tagged info.

You can drag/export/copy right from the iPod folder back into your iTunes library and the songs will sort per the norm, from which, you can load right onto someone elses iPod.

Matter of fact, I'm doing such as we speak. Importing my 80gig video iPod library back into my iTunes to go through it and put stuff into my girlfriends Shuffle I bought her for Christmas heh.

[EmpireF4i]

Can anyone tell me how to enable the disk on an iPhone to rip my music from it to my computer? Many thanks in advance!

[Salshun]

I have an Iphone, and I LOATHE the way Itunes works. In my opinion, it should be nothing more than simple directory structure. Dock your Ipod/Iphone, and the devices AND your computer lists it's file/folders with options like Music, Movies, Pictures, etc., allowing you to drag and drop between the two.

The fact that I can't grab a buddies Ipod/Iphone and kick him a few songs from my computer without obliterating his shit is just lame beyond words.

[Eomer]

Blame the record companies, I'm sure the way iTunes and Zune software work is entirely dictated by their distribution deals with the big boys.

[Rorek]

Originally Posted by Salshun

I have an Iphone, and I LOATHE the way Itunes works. In my opinion, it should be nothing more than simple directory structure. Dock your Ipod/Iphone, and the devices AND your computer lists it's file/folders with options like Music, Movies, Pictures, etc., allowing you to drag and drop between the two.

The fact that I can't grab a buddies Ipod/Iphone and kick him a few songs from my computer without obliterating his shit is just lame beyond words.

I think it has to do with the devices, the actual iPods, whether its an iPod with an actual moving-parts hard drive (old style/videos/touch) or the solid-state drive ones (shuffles/nano/iphone).

I bring my 80gig video to my buddies all the time and snag shit off his pc through iTunes, and he loads his iPods with his shit constantly and vise versa. But the second I try to throw my ladies shuffle on there it wants to sync all the shit off hers.

[EmpireF4i]

I can get my music off my Nano just by enabling the disk and making them visable, but I cant do it at all on the iPhone. Oh well, guess Ill just buy it legally.

[Joelage_mcduffbot]

You can also try EphPod - iPod for Windows (and Linux) :: HOME

I've used it many times before and works fine. Configure it up in the options and it will rip using the ID tags to folders based on the artist etc...