What is procedure to recover music after ipod hardware failure

My uncle's ipod had a hardware failure and died. Apple genius bar gave him an estimate for repair. But he has not repaired it yet. At that time, his music was still playable within iTunes. Then my uncle's tried to transfer music library to his daughter's PC. I do not know exactly what he did but, itunes produced a file called library.XML containing a list of his music titles along with the file paths to each item. At this point, all his music is not playable on his PC nor his daughers's PC. What was can be done with the Library.xml file? What is the purpose of library.xml. After iTunes generates library.xml, what should be done with it? My uncle wants to recover is music library. What should he do? Please help. Thank you.

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I had my music stored on an external drive which was set as the default location for my music using iTunes. The drive failed. When I open iTunes, everything looks exactly as it always has but if I try to play any music the program can't find the files which no longer exist. I've read about programs like Senuti, iPodRip, and PodWorks which claim to be able to transfer music from an iPod to iTunes. Before I jump in and try one, does anybody here know the following (assume Senuti unless you strongly recommend a different program):
1. Can one of these programs transfer my entire library (about 6000 songs by 255 artists) automatically or will I have to do it all manually?
2. Is it possible to keep the existing organization (by album, by artist, with associated album art, etc) when transferring to iTunes from my iPod?
3. I do seem to have a small iTunes library with some iTunes music on my internal drive. Should I erase that before transferring from the iPod?
Has anybody done this sort of thing successfully? Any tips, hints, suggestions or advise? I'm using a MBP (older, Core Duo) running OS 10.6.4, with iTunes 9.2.1 and a 3rd generation, 40gig iPod.
Thanks.

You can use any of the programs that you listed to transfer. The transfer will be automatic once you tell the program what to do.
iTunes will sort by the default of Artist>Album>Song.
If you have an iTunes library already on the internal you can just add the stuff from the iPod to that library. No reason to erase the internal before starting. You do need to have a library to transfer into.
I think that the main idea is to get the music back to your Mac and off the iPod.
You can read this very thorough post from Zevoneer - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1900086&tstart=0
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*** Need help recovering music on iPod/iTunes ***

* Need help recovering music on iPod/iTunes *
I bought my iPod 30G when it first came out back in the day. With the protective case it looks like a Walkman, if you know what that is. The new ones are half the thickness of my old skool one. lol!
Anyway, years ago I accidently uploaded a virus in both my PC and laptop. Yeah, real *******. Well, the person who restored my computers couldn't save my music. I still have the iPod but my library on iTunes is gone. If I try to update my iPod in either computer it will erase every song I have on it and only upload the songs/album I'm trying to add. I'm told that this is something Apple did to prevent file sharing, blah, blah, blah...
Does anyone know a way around it? I keep buying CDs just not able to load them into my iPod thru iTunes.

Hello yourantihero,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
There are several ways you can pull the music off your iPod and onto iTunes. The first link below provides step-by-step instructions for the direct method if you have a PC as well as a few third party applications (for both the Mac and PC) if you choose to go that route instead. You can also do a simple Google search for "copy music from iPod to computer" and you should receive a number of sites that can help you out.
Just make sure that when you have your iPod plugged into your computer, that you don't hit "Erase and Sync" before completing the task of copying your music over.
Also, if you have any purchased music, you will probably have to re-authorize your computer by heading to the Store drop down menu and choosing "Authorize computer."
[5 Ways to Copy Music OFF your iPod and onto iTunes|http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/5-ways-to-copy-music-off-your-ipo d-windows-mac-os-x>
Here are a few more helpful sites.
[Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide|http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipo d-to-computer]
Or
[How to copy songs your iPod to your PC|http://lifehacker.com/software/ipod/how-to-copy-songs-from-your-ipod-to-your -pc-105256.php]
Also, here is an article for the direct method that is for both Windows Vista and XP.
http://ipodtips-tricks.blogspot.com/2008/10/howto-transfer-music-from-ipodto-itu nes.html
Hope this helps.
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Hey all,
To add to the masses of problems.
On my second Shuffle 2gig (replaced first one because of this problem)
I can only add music to it after using the ipod reset utility.
When going back into iTunes it works fine, except for the fact I have no say in what goes on nor what order.
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OK, did the SMU resets- more then once because the first time I plugged everything back in and the iPod reset didn't work; an additional time,with nothing but the iPod plugged in, it seems to have worked. I say seems because it's blinking orange and I'm worried about unmounting/disconnecting it to try to play it- the last time I thought I had fixed it, it was doing this...
Oh, and I'm running 1.0.3 software- thankfully,I had kept the old reset software...
I'm going to wait a bit and see if the blinking stops. Maybe it's just recharging, but I've barely played it, so it seems unlikely it needs much, if any charging.
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I hope you can stick with me as I try to explain this problem the best that I can!
My son has a 30G video ipod that is currently synced to a Dell with Windows 2000. All of his music/videos/games/photos/movies are on the ipod. Of course the PC crashed and strangely wiped out the music files, but kept the XML files that the music is attached to (?). So we have been unable to listen to the music on the computer because we get a message that says something along the lines of the original files are missing. (The movies are intact, and only one of the downloaded games have shown up.) He has only able to listen to the music in iTunes if the iPod was plugged into the computer. We kind of resolved the problem by doing this: with the ipod plugged into the PC, we made a folder on the desktop. Since we were able to listen to the music we highlighted all of the songs and dragged them into the new folder. Opening the folder we saw they were not xml files, but the m4 or mP3 files-something along those lines. We then unplugged the ipod and moved the files from the folder on the desk top to the itunes library, and we can now listen to the music without the iPod having to be plugged into it. However, there are about 750 songs on the iPod, but only 530 that have shown up in the iTunes library. What could have happened to the other songs?
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I think that analogy is flawed, to be honest.
When I buy a CD from the store, it is tangible. I remove the plastic covering, I open the case, and take the CD out. That's not the case here, where the album is purchased online, electronically, and stored on my harddrive (until I make a backup, that is, which I obviously didn't do). So it's not like some factory is producing a replacement compact disc and jewel case, and mailing it to me if I lose my first one. It's just bits of code in Apple's central database. I wouldn't think royalties would have to be paid out, if it could be proven that the same person who made the original purchase was just downloading the music again. That's why I 'guess I was always under the impression..'. The wrong impression, obviously. There's my 2 cents.
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