HDD crash, iTunes library gone, is it possible to restore from itouch?
Hi Everyone,
My hard drive recently crashed and my iTunes library with it. Fortunately I store all of my music in an external hard drive. However, the iTunes library file and other ITL files got wiped out in the crash. My iPod Touch is still intact and I don't want to recreate my iTunes library from scratch and erase all of the info that is in my iPod. Can anyone help me on this?
Message was edited by: richbaylon
Buy a 3rd-party ipod manager program that supports iTouch and retrieving playlists.
Here is a good place to start your research
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/P2/
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