Computer crashed, reinstalled OS, Don't want to loose song on i-pod
I had to reinstall my OS; Win XP media center 2005! Can I reinstall my software and get i-tunes working again. I'm afraid to plug it in for fear that I will loose all the time I spent copying my personal music collection (400 cd) to acc or aac files. I have all the software and soforth but will it download the music on/from my i-pod to a new installaion of my i-tunes since I had to reinstall my OS and all other software on my computer?
15 gig. third generation i-pod
3rd generation 15 gig. Windows XP XP media center edition 2005
"but will it download the music on/from my i-pod to a new installaion of my i-tunes"
No, it won't. Check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer.
There's also Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod to iTunes or anywhere else you specify on your computer.
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Did you move the music to the external using these instructions:?
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If you did not delete the iTunes Music folder yet (instruction 13), verify that your songs play from the external. Then trash the iTunes Music folder. Be careful not to delete the iTunes folder, but only the 'iTunes Music' folder inside it.
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Then connect the external drive and run iTunes. It should recognize the library at once.
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I'm not very familiar with iPhoto, but as far as I know you can just copy the entire 'iPhoto Library' folder (in Users/Username/Pictures) to the external.
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