How To Recover iPod Music Files Using iTunes
The one easiest ways to recover music from an iPod is to make the iPod’s music folder visible and then drag it over to your computer’s desktop. Once there, simply add that folder (and the music within) to iTunes by dragging the folder into iTunes’ main window or using the program’s Add to Library command you can found in the File menu. Here’s how to recover music from an iPod on a Mac computer
As the Mac doesn’t include a utility for making invisible files visible so you must download one. For this work, you can use a free tool of TinkerTool. You can get this Tool from the link below this post. Once you’ve downloaded TinkerTool, you can follow these steps:
1. Plug in the iPod.
2. Launch the iTunes if it doesn’t run automatically.
3. If the music library on your iPod is not linked to iTunes’ music library, they will ask if you’d like to replace the contents of the iPod with the contents of the iTunes library. Simply answer No.
4. Select the iPod in iTunes’ Source list and click the icon of the iPod that appears at the bottom of the iTunes window.
5. Enable the Manually Manage Songs and Playlists option as well as the Enable Disk
6. Use option you can found in the Music and General tabs of iTunes 4.7.x respectively). 7. Click OK to dismiss the iPod Preferences window.
8. Launch TinkerTool and click the Finder tab.
9. Enable the Show Hidden and System Files option.
10. Click Relaunch Finder
11. Move to the Finder and double-click on the iPod’s icon on the Desktop. You’ll discover that several more items now appear in the iPod window. Among them is a folder called iPod_Control.
12. Double-click the iPod_Control folder. Inside the iPod_Control folder you’ll find the Device, iTunes, and Music folders along with the iPodPrefs file.
13. Drag the Music folder to your Mac’s computer to copy it to your computer. As the name implies, this is where music is stored on the iPod.
In previous versions of iTunes you could simply drag this Music folder to iTunes’ main window and the music within it would be copied to iTunes’ music library. This is no longer the case. You must now flip the visibility bit of this folder (and the folders within it) to copy the files to the library.
14. Use SkyTag Software’s $40 File Buddy 8 or Rainer Brockerhoff’s $10 XRay to toggle the visibility bit on the Music folder and the F folders within it. 15. Once the folders are truly visible, drag the Music folder into iTunes’ main library to add the tracks to iTunes.
Now the songs you copied from the iPod will be added to iTunes. If you’re a tidy type, before copying those files to iTunes, here is a solution to resolve it:
- Open iTunes’ preferences,
- Click the Advanced tab, and make sure the Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized and Copy File to iTunes Music Folder When Adding to Library options are enabled. Enabling these options will organize your iTunes library in the way iTunes prefers.
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