How can I get my music back ASAP?
I left my ipod out at a party (smart idea, right?) and now I have no songs on my ipod. all of my songs and videos that I've collected over the years are gone, or so I thought. I plugged in my ipod and theres no music but theres still about 5gb of "other" data.
my questions are:
1) is there anyway possible to get my music back?
2) how can I get into ipods main folder to see the "other" data? I knew how to do it on my old ipod but not on the touch
Hi,
It appears your music data on the Touch has become corrupt and unreadable.
As I feared from the way your original question was phrased your music is not in your library or even backed up?
Oh blimey! I guess the last thing you need now is a lecture but you are probably stuffed. People have to realise that an iPod is not a secure storage device for any data, certainly not maybe hundreds of pounds/dollars worth of music, that is not the way they are intended to be used.
The Touch has no "disk mode" to read files directly.
You can try a 3rd party application such as -
[TouchCopy|http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy>
or
[MediaWidget|http://www.bootstrapdevelopment.com/showproduct.aspx?t=b]
They might help rescue some music but I can't be sure. You have not said what your main OS is Mac or Windows, the two Apps detailed work on windows but only Touch copy on the Mac, other applications for Mac are available, Google.
Good luck, I think you may need it,
Dud.
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Thanks very much for reading.Richard1987 wrote:
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