My old PC crashed and I want to sync the music on my IPOD to my new laptop

How do I get it done?

Connect your iPod to your computer. If it is set to update automatically you'll get a message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button: Managing content manually on iPod
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to a computer
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However 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 of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
SharePod Windows Only
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync. I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay.

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HT1329 My old computer crashed, and I have most of my music on my ipod, how do i move it to my new computer.

My old computer crashed, and I have most of my music on my ipod, that has been purchased, and downloaded music from my CD's. I also have music in my old Library on ITunes. How do I recover all of them, and transfer my music on my IPod, to my new Library.

Lucky for you, I just found out how to get the music stored on your iPod by messing around with it. I'm not much of an Apple user (I only have a shuffle), so I'm not 100% sure it would work the same way as yours.. but it's worth a shot.
if your iTunes didn't sync with your iPod yet,... that would be great..
1, Make sure your iTunes does not automatically sync with your iPod (I don't know if this would help..)
2, Click on your iPod and go to settings, check "Enabe Disk Use"
Your iPod should now have a partition on My Computer called AFJCHAW's IPOD or whatever you named your iPod... If you go to that disk, you'll notice there's nothing in there.
3, Click on Organize at the top right part of Windows Explorer(Windows 7, don't know how in XP..), go th the Folder and search options, view tab, and click on show hidden files, folders, and drives.
If you go back to your disk, you should be able to find a folder
4, It'll be pretty straightforward then. Go to iPod_Control/Music. You'll find folders there. Inside the folders are each of your music files (they're renamed but the Details would still be about the same).
If you did get your music files back from this procedure, then, yay! it worked!!
If you didn't,.... it should've worked..

TS1474 I changed my computer (old one is dead!) and now when I want to sync the contents of my iPod onto my new computer, it tells me I can only sync with one computer (i.e. the one that died!) How do I get around this??

I changed my computer (old Dell is dead!) and now when I want to sync the contents of my iPod onto my new computer (a Sony Vaio), it tells me I can only sync with one computer (i.e. the one that died!) How do I get around this??

-Transfer iTunes purchases to the compuer by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- Transfer other music by using a third-party program like one of those discusssed here:
Copy music
- Connect the Ipd to the computer and make a backup by right clicking on the iPod under Devices in iTunes and select Back Up
- Restore the iPod from that backup
Note that the backup that iTunes makes does not contain synced media like apps and music.

I recently purchased a new mac computer and would like to sync the music off my iPhone to my new mac.However, my phone and my new mac have different apple Ids.The PC which my phone is synced and has the same apple ID but does not let me transfer the music

Hi I recently purchased a new mac computer and would like to sync the music off my iPhone to my new mac.However, my phone and my new mac have different apple Ids.The PC which my phone is synced and has the same apple ID but does not let me transfer the music. Home sharing is not working. How do I successfully transfer and sync the music off my ipone 4 to my mac book pro if they have different Apple IDs? Thanks!

What do you mean the PC won't let you transfer the music? Save your entire iTunes folder (this is assuming that you have all your music stored in your iTunes folder) to an external hard drive. Connect that hard drive to your Mac. Copy the iTunes folder to your computer. Hold down the option key while launching iTunes on your Mac. Select the library you just copied when it ask you to select which library you want to open.

HT1386 my pc crashed. How do I get the music from my Ipod onto my new PC

My PC Crashed. How do I get the music from my Ipod onto my new PC?

See:
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities

HT201269 i have a new laptop (non Apple) and want to put my music on my iPod to my new laptop (Windows8) but when I plug my iPod into the computer it won't sync. My music is mostly old CD's I had in my iTunes library. Any help??

I have a new laptop (not Apple) and want to put my music from my iPod touch to laptop (Windows8). When I plug in my iPod it doesn't snyc. My iTunes library is mostly my CD's and a few iTunes purchases. The only things in my library are my purchases??? need help

Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities

HT1727 I have iTunes music on my iPhone and I want to transfer the music to my iPod. But my phone uses a different iTunes account than my old iPod. How can I move music on my phone to my iPod? Thank you.

I have an old iPod that has a different Apple ID than my iPhone. How can I put all the music on my iPod and get it off my phone? I'm not sure how to mix the music from two different apple id's.

Hi KathySA,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You can sync songs to your iPod from your iTunes library on a computer. You may need to authorize the computer with both of your Apple IDs:
iTunes: Syncing media content to iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351
iTunes Store: Authorize or deauthorize your Mac or PC
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1420
If some music from the iTunes Store is only on your iPhone, you can transfer purchases to the computer:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
Cheers,
Jeremy

My old laptop crashed and I lost everything on it. How do I get the music from my ipod onto my new laptop?

My old laptop crashed and I lost everything on it. How do I get the music that is on my Ipod onto Itunes on my new laptop?

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

My old computer crashed. I want to move the music files from my iphone to my new computer. Have tried many things which dont work.

My old computer crashed. I have the data on a flash drive but some of the music was purchased under an old appleID so it won't sync. I am trying to move the music from my iphone to the new computer but I am not having any luck. Suggestions?

iTunes includes an option to transfer all iTunes content that was purchased/downloaded from the iTunes Store from an iPod or iOS device, but this is for iTunes content that was purchased/downloaded from the iTunes Store only.
To transfer the music from the flash drive that was purchased from the old Apple ID will require authorizing your new computer with that Apple ID with iTunes. The same for music or any other iTunes content on your iPhone that was purchased from the iTunes Store with that Apple ID.
With the iPhone connected to iTunes and without syncing, at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select Transfer Purchases From - the name of your iPhone.
You will need to authorize your new computer with iTunes with each Apple ID that was used to purchase/download any iTunes content purchased from the iTunes Store on the iPhone with the Apple ID.

My computer crashed and I want to restore my music from my ipod to my itunes..help????

My computer crashed and I lost my music library in ITunes...I have my music on my ipod and would like to get my Itunes libary in sync with my ipod...can someone help me figure out how to do this??? I had imported a lot of music from CDs and I hate to have to do it again to get my Itunes library up to date with my ipod - I was able to update the music I purchased from the Itunes store, but not the other music. thanks!

Take a look at this link, https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

I have got a new pc, and I want to upload the music from my ipod 4g to the pc and its not working :(

I have just bought a new computer as my old pc has broken. So I want to upload all the data from my ipod touch 4g to my new pc. I try and do this by clicking sync and nothing happens.

http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php
It would actually be easier to use the backup files from your old PC. You were backing it up to an external drive?

HT1296 Long before I got an iphone 4s I got an ipod touch. I want to sync the music on my ipod onto my computer to put onto my iphone, but it won't do it because my apple IDs are different. Is there a way to fix it?

Several years ago I got an ipod touch as a gift and set it up with my then current apple ID from previous apple products. Since then I got an iphone4s. When that got set up it got set up with a new ID because at the time, I couldn't access my old one because I had forgotten the passwords and the passwords to acces the email account to which the info would have been sent (a problem since solved.) I have a lot of music on my ipod that I would like to transfer to my iphone, but I cannot seem to sync it to my computer because it that music was downloaded from a differnt ID. Can I fix this? Some of the music are CDs that have since been damaged, and some is downloaded music I'd rather not pay for again.Thanks for the help!

See:
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities
To copy iTunes purchases to the computer you have to log into (authorize) the account that purchased them and them transfer
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
When associating a device with an Apple ID see the following regarding the 90 day limit.

HT1848 how do i transfer my music on my ipad to a new computer that i recently downloaded itunes to and authorized? My last computer crashed and all my music is on my ipad and i want to get the music off my ipad and on my new computer.

how do i transfer my music on my ipad to a new computer that i recently downloaded itunes to and authorized? My last computer crashed and all my music is on my ipad and i want to get the music off my ipad and on my new computer. somw music is purchased and some is just old transferred from cd's

Sync with new computer
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

HT1329 My old computer crashed and I had to get a new one. I was unable to save anything from the old computer. Is there anyway to get my music from my Ipod to my new computer without having to start over with the old cd's again

My old computer crashed and I had to get a new one. I was unable to save anything from the old computer. Is there anyway to get my music from my Ipod to my new computer without having to start over with the old cd's again

Hello cheech07,
The following article contains directions that can help get you back on track with iTunes. I'd recommend picking up at 'Part 5' of the 'External drive' section.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Cheers,
Allen

My HDD crashed in my old PC and I built a new system. iTunes won't let me sync the music from my ipod back into the new version of iTunes I had to download. How do I fix?

My HDD crashed in my old PC and I built a new system. iTunes won't let me sync the music from my iPod back into the new version of iTunes I had to download. How do I fix?

Syncing music via iTunes is only one way: from iTunes to your iPod. If you need to copy the music from your iPod back to your PC, see this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different ways to do this.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

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