Need to put songs on my iTunes library!!
My memory on my computer was erased by a virus. All my songs were deleted, including my iTunes. However, i still had my songs on my iPod. Is there any way to put those songs back onto my computer even though i had to reinstall iTunes? Can i put them on the new iTunes library? If i cant, can i still put songs on my iPod with deleting the ones i already have on it?
Hi, Sanan!
Welcome to the Discussions!
First of all, I don't personally own an iPod (yet). That being said, I can explain how it works with iTunes so you can better understand your situation and how to overcome it.
First of all, there are two basic ways to sync iTunes song files on the computer with the songs on the iPod; auto sync and manual sync. If you have an iPod with music on it but the music is not in iTunes on the PC, when you auto-sync the two, the computer "updates" the iPod automatically when you connect it to sync. Since there's nothing on the computer, it overwrites your iPod and updates it with zero song files, leaving you with an empty iPod which matches your iTunes folder. To work around this, you must turn off the auto-sync preference and change it to manual sync, after which you can selectively add music files to the iPod without losing the files that are already on it.
Apple does not support syncing the iPod in reverse; that is, transferring your music from the iPod to a computer. (It can only do this if it's set up as a "hard drive", as opposed to the way it's normally configured, which is as a "music player".) However, there are third-party workarounds, which I referred to in the link in my previous post, which will enable you to transfer/recover your music files from the iPod back to the computer.
Regarding your iTunes account, if you "lost" your iTunes application and iTunes Music folder by a major drive failure or something along those lines, you can reinstall iTunes on your computer, go to the Music Store, and log in again just like before, using your existing login and password. You can continue to use the Store just like you did before the fiasco occurred. The only difference is that you will have a clean Purchased Music Smart folder on the PC after the reinstall, which is no big deal.
I hope that this eases your concerns a bit and gets you started on recovering your iTunes files from the iPod, the details of which are in the link I previously provided.
Gary
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