Restore Itunes Library - Hard Drive Crash - from Ipod
I have a very large library of music - Many CD's - I have been able to restore my purchases from Apple store - My Ipod has 80 to 90% of my music on it - I do not wish to have to reload around 100 CDs of music - Is there a way to get the music that is on my Ipod back into my Itunes library without having to reload all my CD - Please I do not want to have to do this from scratch
there are many third party apps that will do this.
If you are willing to pay a few bucks, Music Rescue is one of the best imo as far as features go: http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/
there are some free solutions out there as well.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
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