Ripping music from an ipod?

[Modo Icecrown]

I know I've seen threads about it before here, but I couldn't find any of them.

My girlfriend is trying to rip her music from her ipod and put it on her new Mac, her old comp got fried and this is the only place her music exists. Some of it was bought off iTunes as well.

Is there an easy way to do it?

[Millie]

I had a similar problem about 2 years ago that I never ended up solving. At the time, I think there was software you could download or purchase that enabled you to extract the songs from your iPod. But for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to do it.

I'd actually be curious to hear the answer to this, myself.

[Candiarie]

A google search turned these up in under a minute:
floola.com - Wiwi - Download - Mac OS X
iPodRip

It does look like Mac software is a lot less available than Linux/Win software though. That sucks. I use sharepod on windows pretty frequently.

[lendarios]

Enable Disk on the ipod

Open MyPc navigate to the ipod drive (make sure you have hidden files visible) open. then go to IpodControl -> music.

youll find 50 folders, copy them to your dektop make them visible,

Congrats you have all your music now on your desktop.

burn to a CD or a usb , take to the mac, import, done

[Candiarie]

Yeah, you could do that too, and I suppose you could have itunes automatically sort them when you add them to your library so it'd be about the same. It'd be a pain for anything but copying the entirety of your ipod's music over though.

[Algol Devilstar]

Originally Posted by lendarios

Enable Disk on the ipod

Open MyPc navigate to the ipod drive (make sure you have hidden files visible) open. then go to IpodControl -> music.

youll find 50 folders, copy them to your dektop make them visible,

Congrats you have all your music now on your desktop.

burn to a CD or a usb , take to the mac, import, done

Hilarious that this is the extent of their protection from transferring music from anyones ipod to your own computer.

edit: of course you could do it before if you just use a portable HD and connect it to each persons computer to transfer their collection.

[Millie]

Originally Posted by lendarios

Enable Disk on the ipod

Open MyPc navigate to the ipod drive (make sure you have hidden files visible) open. then go to IpodControl -> music.

youll find 50 folders, copy them to your dektop make them visible,

Congrats you have all your music now on your desktop.

burn to a CD or a usb , take to the mac, import, done

Sounds really simple. LOL.

But I have to wonder if Apple has recently found a way to stop this?

Can anyone test it out and check for me? If it still works, I'll sticky the thread.

[Asmadai]

iPodRip is what i've always used.

[Rorek]

Originally Posted by Millie

Sounds really simple. LOL.

But I have to wonder if Apple has recently found a way to stop this?

Can anyone test it out and check for me? If it still works, I'll sticky the thread.

It in fact, does work. I do it all the time. The only downside is that the actual file itself gets renamed once it's on the iPod. Apple changes the names to a series of 4 random letters. Windows still knows what the song is and who it's by though.


Apple just confides in the fact that most people don't know what they're fucking doing on a PC. "No one would think to look in a hidden folder!"

[Candiarie]

That's been the case for as long as I've had an iPod - it doesn't encrypt the files or anything, I'm pretty sure it's just that they're in the 50 folders and it uses its database file to know where they all are. If you want any sort of sorting or being able to find a certain artist to copy off of the iPod immediately you'll want to look into a program. That method works on 1G, 3G, 5G and classics on windows at least, but know that all your files are going to be called OJOZ.mp3 and such. They'll still be tagged, though.

[Millie]

Originally Posted by Rorek

It in fact, does work. I do it all the time. The only downside is that the actual file itself gets renamed once it's on the iPod. Apple changes the names to a series of 4 random letters. Windows still knows what the song is and who it's by though.

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.

[Smocca]

If the tags are saved, couldn't you just put them into windows media player and then have it rename all of the files automatically?

[Rathgar]

iPod To Computer Transfer -- Copy from iPod to computer

What I've always used. It was called PodUtil back when I downloaded it, now it's "Ipod to Computer".

[Warrik]

If your on a mac, just go to iPod control folder on your iPod and drag all the files out of your music folder into your itunes music folder. Once thats done, drag folder contents into your library and your done.

You have to enable see hidden folders however.

[Warrik]

Originally Posted by Millie

Sounds really simple. LOL.

But I have to wonder if Apple has recently found a way to stop this?

Can anyone test it out and check for me? If it still works, I'll sticky the thread.

Its that simple. I do it all the time. I just did it again when I installed Leopard on my two macs. Transfered over 6000 songs from my iPod to my macs.