Ipod to itunes music transfer

Hello All,
I have a feeling that somehow in the past I was able to transfer music from an ipod to my itunes library. Does anyone remember if this used to be possible and now is not or am I mistaken? Perhaps it was not legal and it was taken out of the abilities of new versions of itunes? But I am pretty sure that waaayyy back someone transfered music from their ipod into my cuputer's itunes.
was this ever possible? Can this still be done? Friend's ipod to my computer's itunes?

Okay. I know that not knowing a law does not excempt you from it, but without getting anyone into hot water and just confused and techno curious:
When I first got my ipod and knew nothing of ianything a friend connected his ipod to my computer later my ipod and literally gave me every single piece of audio he had in his. That is how I ended up with a whole bunch of stuff in my library and ipod. I still don't know everything I received. I don't know if this was illegal or not but it was done, how? is my question. Not to repeat it (not interested) but I have read that ipod to itunes transfers are not possible so many times recently that I am confused on how I received my initial library of music from this guy, becasue I did and it did not include any CDs.

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If you enable your iPod for disk use, you should be able to do this without utilities (unless iTunes checks for this kind of thing). See, all of your music is stored (with garbled filenames) under <D:/iPod_Control/Music/> (where "D" is your iPod). So if you use iTunes's "Add Folder to Library" on the "iPod_Control/Music" folder, it should import your iPod files.
So do this,
1. Set Windows to show hidden files and folders, if it isn't already. There are plenty of guides for this on Google.
2. Open iTunes.
3. Enable disk use on your iPod, if you haven't already.
4. Go to File > Add Folder to Library....
5. In the Open Folder dialog box, navigate to your iPod.
6. Go into the iPod_Control folder.
7. Select the Music folder. Click OK.
Note that on Windows, the iPod_Control folder (and its contents) are hidden, so you need to set Windows to show hidden files and folders.

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I want to move music from my ipod, to my new computer, a powerbook. I dont want to liise the 1100 songs on my ipod, but i dont want to hook up my ipod to the computer whenever i want music... i know i could do it on my old computer, a dell... and i thought that there was an easy way to do it on macs... any info?
thanks

Will, do you mean you want to transfer the songs in your iPod to iTunes in your Mac? If yes, you need a 3rd party software such as iPodRip.
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i just opend itunes and all my music was gone on the library but i have it all on my nano..is there a way i can take all that music and transfer it to the itunes music library?

I don't know anyone who has had problems with it, and yes, it does take up a bit of space, but the advantage is that you can go to a computer that doesn't even have iTunes, plug in your iPod, and Yamipod lets you put music onto and off of the iPod with that computer. So if you have a work computer where you are not allowed to install programs (for example) you can still use it there.
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I have ipod classic. i do not have enough memeory capacity on my lap top to allow transfer of all my music. can i transfer my music to ipod without itunes, or transfer to ipod and then delete form itunes BUT NOT my ipod, then trnasfer more?

HI
I have IPOD classic, and want to transfer all my cd's on to my ipod. I have itunes but my laptop will not support all my music which i want to put on my ipod.
If i transfer music to itunes then sync to ipod - fine - but when i want to delete a cd to enable me to put another one on my laptop (due to memeory)
itunes then deletes it off my ipod.. AGHHHH. how can i get all my music on to my ipod? i cannt seem to get it to sync via windows media. any help?
please.

You could use Manually Manage your iPod, but the problem with that is that if your iPod ever needs to be Restored, the procedure will delete everything on the iPod and put back on what it can find in your iTunes Library. So you would lose anything not on the laptop. Also, when you buy yourself a replacement iPod, once again, you will lose whatever is not in the your iTunes Library.
Manually Manage means just that. You manually move media onto the iPod. So if you subsequently change anything about a piece of music, such as modifying an incorrectly spelt song title, you would have to remove that song from the iPod, make the change and then put that same (now modified) song back onto your iPod.
Song Play Counts cannot be used when Manually Managing an iPod, because it's the Sync process that updates that information.
An alternative to this, is buy yourself an external hard drive to plug into the laptop. If you buy one large enough to hold all your existing music and possible future purchases, you could then move your iTunes Library and all the Playlists and song counts (using the correct procedure, which exeprienced users on this forum can help you with) to that external drive and continue to use Sync. Then, all the content of your iPod would effectively be backed up.
Using an external drive does mean that you need to have the drive connected and ready to read before starting iTunes - every time. If not, iTunes will fail to find you music and instead look on the internal drive.

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I apologize if this was answered in an FAQ or some other obvious place. I have googled around and can't seem to find the answer.
I have just purchased my wife an iPod for Christmas, making us a two iPod household (including mine). Until this point my wife and I have shared music CDs. She would keep one for a bit in the car or at the house and after a bit I would take it and listen to it in my car, at the gym etc.
How do we do this with iTunes? If I purchase an Album on iTunes, can I listen to it for a while on my iPod and then somehow transfer it to her account for her to then listen to for a while on her iPod? Does the copyright regulations of iTunes allow for sharing music around on different iPods?
Thanks in advance for any assistance. We do try our best to stay legal on all fronts in the digital age!

Thanks for the speedy answer to a newb! So far the wife and I are LOVING our iPODs, and due to the quality of the nano Gen4 (they are SOLID) are considering our first MAC purchase (heck I have wanted to go MAC since Windows Me )
Just so I understand, if I copied the iTunes my wife purchased onto a thumb drive, then put the drive in my PC and opened itunes and did Add to Library, I could then select that drive and import them in? And I could then sync those iTunes to my iPod?
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There are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews and comparisons of some of them here:
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please help....i was tryin to set up my itunes music on my new computer and i plugged in my ipod to transfer the files and now everything is gone???
i have no music on either i pod or my itunes its showing up as empty and purchased items is not even showing...iv lost about 1500 songs please this is urgent
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If you didn't make a back-up of your purchases to restore from (as you are advised to do) then I'm sorry to say that the policy on lost purchases is that you have to pay to download them again:
"Products may only be downloaded once; after being downloaded, they cannot be replaced if lost for any reason. Once a Product is purchased or rented (as applicable) and you receive the Product, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage the Product, and Apple shall be without liability to you in the event of any loss, destruction, or damage" iTunes Store: Purchased content can be downloaded only once
You could try contacting iTunes Store Customer Service and you might be able to persuade them to sanction a second free download. There have been occasional reports in the iTunes forum of this happening, however just be aware that they are not under any obligation to do so. If you click on this link you'll be able to email your query: Customer Service - iTunes Store Support
You might also want to check out these pages for future reference:
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Pressing "Erase and Sync" when iTunes brings up the dialogue window asking whether you want to replace the songs on your iPod with the songs in this ilibrary does exactly what it says. If you linked to an empty iTunes it will have erased the original contents of your iPod and with nothing to sync will have left it blank. If you have no back-up there are some data recovery programs on the market. I've no personal experience of them so I can't say how effective they are, here's an example: iPod Data Recovery
None of the recovery programs are particularly cheap so you have to decide if in your particular circumstances it's worth it to get your songs back. It may be if you have a lot of purchased tracks and you don't manage to persuade Apple to let you download them again. If they came primarily from your CDs then it's most likely not as you can re-rip them.

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I posted this on iTunes group on Sat. 9/22, but no answer - so I'll try here -
I have always had my iTunes Music Folder on an external hard drive – when I got my 1st 20 GB iPod, I was using an iMac G3 with a 12GB HD, so I bought an external Firewire HD just for that reason. I have moved this external to an iMac G5, and to my current Power Mac G4 (with major upgrades to processor, video, RAM, etc.), all with no problems. I have upgraded my iPod to a 60GB Color model in between all these moves, and have never had problems associating the iPod with these various computers. I recently (last weekend) upgraded the internal HD on the Power Mac G4, and installed OSX on it – then pointed iTunes to the Music Folder on the external and updated the Library. No problems so far. Then yesterday, I imported 2 new CD’s to iTunes and tried to transfer the new tracks to my iPod – and I get the message about how this iPod is synced to another iTunes Library, and do I want to erase the iPod and sync with this Library. The only thing that has changed is the internal HD with the controlling OS and iTunes (7.4.1 – yeah, I “upgraded”) – the Music Folder is still on the external HD. Isn’t there an easier way to associate the iPod with this new Library other than erasing the iPod and copying back the music? I don’t remember having to do this nonsense in the past with older versions of iTunes. There’s only 2CD’s worth of difference between the Library and the iPod – and the problem for me is this – the Power Mac G4, with all it’s upgrades, is still a USB 1 machine (no problems for most things, like CD & DVD burning and external HD's, since Firewire 400 is more than adequate, but the dock iPods only use USB). Copying 6,000+ songs via USB 1 is going to take all night (plus all the stuff that can go wrong with a file transfer of that duration).
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Robert
Note: the music (the mp3's) have always been on an external drive - and I've never had problems associating the iPod with them before - changing computers, hard drives, etc. The iPod has ALWAYS been associated with these files. Recreating the Music Library (on the local drive) never caused a problem either. Of course, I was using an earlier version of iTunes, not this new "dictatorial" version (where the Library now determines the association) - and as I said, erasing and copying 27+ GB of music on my iPod via USB 1 will take awhile - by my quick calculations - approx. 36 HOURS! 99.9% of this music is from my own CD's (I think that I bought 2 albums and a few songs from iTunes store). The 2 CD's that I want to add to my iPod are mine - I bought them. Why do I have to go through this s**t to get them on my iPod?

It's as easy as it always was; in fact the process is exactly the same as it always has been. The only difference is where you select the iOS device, which in the default view is a button in the header bar, e.g:
Have you tried clicking that? Alternatively, you can go to the View menu and select "Show Sidebar" and the interface will then look almost exactly like in previous versions of iTunes.
Regards.

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It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer. Use your backup copy to put everything back.
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I have copied all my/our Cds into my G5iMac Music Library (iTunes 6.0.3) - I have over 3000 tracks - approx. 14Gb of music. I have a 30Gb 5th Gen. iPod and have all the tracks on my iPod.
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I would do this via firewire - airporting would take all day.
go to network prefs, choose network port configurations, then click "new". select the built-in firewire option.
Once you have set up this on both machines (and connnected them with a firewire cable!), you should be able to connect by choosing "connect to server" from the Go menu in the finder.
if you have problems, try creating an new network location called "firewire" with only the firewire connection box checked.
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