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iPod help please!
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 12:27 pm
by PSL184
This is the story.....
My iPod was authorised to my old computer which had a major crash and was dumped for the new one I'm using now. All the music on my iPod was on the old computer and there was about 20gb altogether. Is there any way around not loosing everything on the iPod and resyncing it with the new computer as it seems to want to delete everything? I have tried to add more music through media player and although it says it has added new tracks I can't then find them on the iPod ????
It's really irritating and me been completely computer illiterate doesn't help much either

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 12:38 pm
by callyspoy
not offering help, as i am useless with itunes and all that jazz.
but...
my itunes told me to get rid of it and reload it, now when i try and reload it, it says win32 not compatible or something. followed all the steps on itunes help and still nothing. so i have an iphone that i can't add new music to now or update...very very annoying. this was yesterday and still raw with anger!!
my only thought about your problem PSL is i didn't think you can add media to itunes via your ipod. you can delete music, add music, but not add to itunes. so i thought?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:50 pm
by pfgiz
Apple…. Nice..
Officially….. The iPod works with iTunes and there is no way of pulling music from you Pod within iTunes. iTunes catalogues and stores the music in a separate folder system on the iPod that only makes sense to iTunes. Although you can see the files they have been renamed and rearranged to suit iTunes.
That being said, there are utilities out there that can pull the music from an iPod. The one I used was for Linux and it renamed the tracks according to their tags using ‘artist’, ‘track’ and ‘album’ to create a folder structure that actually made sense. You can then re-load this structure into iTunes and re-sync your iPod. This is detailed here:
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how- ... your-ipod/ with some nice tutorials and links to the applications you’d need. I haven’t checked the links so, as always, have your anti-virus up to date before downloading apps from the web.
Good luck and let me know how you get on……
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:05 pm
by callyspoy
wow...well versed in apple! any help with my problem with loading itunes to a pc?? remembering that it was on there fine 2 days ago!
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:17 pm
by pfgiz
callyspoy wrote:wow...well versed in apple! any help with my problem with loading itunes to a pc?? remembering that it was on there fine 2 days ago!
I have a couple of questions...
Have you updated iTunes or your iPhone recently?
Is your iPhone standard or has it been jail-broken or unlocked?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 3:25 pm
by callyspoy
I dont think ive updated, there havent been any updates i dont think, as ive only had the pgone for a few weeks. It is a genuine ridiculously high tariff one, but ive had itunes on there for a year or so as my gf uses it for her touch. Very confusing that it was on there but now wont let me reload!
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:20 pm
by PSL184
Many thanks Peter - EphPod worked fantastically and now normality is restored - Saved me from hours in front of the pc reloading cd's

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 7:13 pm
by eastona
I've used that EphPod thing before, it's good. Managed to save loads of music after a PC failure. Andrew
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:05 pm
by Parker
You should be able to put the music from your ipod onto your new comptuter
Do you still have ipod on your new comptuter