Transfer from iPod to new PC
can anyone help...
I recently had my pc stolen amongst other items from my house....fortunately my mini ipod was in my car at the time and this wasn't nicked...
can anyone tell me how to transfer the songs i have on my mini to a brand new Dell laptop...
can i do this or do i need some 3rd party software???
How can Stuart copy music between computers, when his original one was stolen?!<<</div>
Precisely! He can't use his iPod to transfer his libary to a new computer because his original was stolen.
In order to use your iPod to transfer songs to a new computer, you need another authorized computer. A third party app will be required if the origianl computer is unavailable. My answer simply piggy backs on yours and points him to a link to show what he apparently wants to do is impossible.
"Copying songs from your iPod to your computer
The iTunes library on your computer holds all the songs you've encoded from your CD collection or purchased from the iTunes Music Store. With default settings, iTunes automatically copies the songs in your library to your iPod. When you use your iPod as a hard disk, you can't see the songs iTunes copies to your iPod in the Finder or My Computer. This is normal. Using the Finder or My Computer, you can't copy these song files from your iPod back to iTunes or to any other computer. The synchronization between your iPod and your computer is always one way: from iTunes to iPod.
If you've erased the music library on your computer, there's no way to use the Finder or My Computer to copy the songs from your iPod to reconstitute the library on your computer. One solution is to encode the songs from your CD collection again, then sync your new library with iPod. If you purchased songs from the iTunes Music Store and didn't back them up, there's no way to download them again. You'll have to buy new copies of the songs.
So what if you have some songs on one computer and you want to--legally--copy them to another. Can you use iPod's hard disk for that? Sure.
Configure iPod as a hard disk as described above.
Locate the iTunes Music folder on your computer. Inside the iTunes Music folder are all the songs you've encoded or purchased. They're organized by artist in various folders.
Drag the song files you want to copy to the iPod disk icon in the Finder or in My Computer. The number of songs you can copy will depend on how much free space there is on your iPod's hard disk. The computer copies the songs to your iPod. Keep in mind that iPod can't play these songs. You have to copy songs with iTunes in order to listen to them with iPod.
Eject iPod before disconnecting it from the computer.
Connect your iPod to the other computer. iTunes opens and asks if you want to associate your iPod with the music library on that computer. Make sure you don't do that, unless you really want to.
Double-click the iPod icon in the Finder or My Computer. A new window appears.
Arrange the windows so you can see the contents of your iPod and the iTunes library.
Drag the songs from your iPod to the iTunes window. The computer copies the songs to the iTunes Music folder on this computer.
To free up space on your iPod, drag the songs you copied to the Trash or Recycle bin and empty it.
Eject iPod before disconnecting it from the computer."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131
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I use my iPod to listen to recordings of lectures. I do the recording using a digital recorder, then download to the PC and import into iTunes then sync to iPod.
Recently my PC crashed and the hard disk is no longer recognized. I will have to buy a new hard disk and reinstall everything to get that PC up and running. It will take a long time.
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I can understand the copyright issue for purchased music but I don't have any -- everything in my iPod is recording of lectures.
I looked for Apple Support but all their Support web site does is refer me to this forum.
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