iPOD upload to iTUNES

Did a fresh install, drive failure. Any freeware to upload ipod to itunes.

 

First question is which iPod do you have? The newer ones may not allow you to access the music.

In anycase, open Windows Explorer:
Tools > Folder Options > View tab > "Show hidden files..."

Plug your ipod into your machine. Navigate to it in explorer:
iPod > iPod_Control\Music

There, you will find up to 50 folders titled F00, F01, F02... Spread across all of the folders is your entire music library, but with randomized 4-letter names. Open iTunes, go to Preferences, Advanced, specify where you would like your Music directory to be read from, and most importanty ALLOW "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" AND "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library".

All, or most, of your songs have their song attributes (title, artist, album...) even though the file name is randomized. If you let iTunes manage the music and allow it to copy files to the library folder, then it will rename the file and create Artist and Album folders, as well as copy the files to your library and it will be as organized as your music was (hopefully you've kept your songs organized).

You'll need to drag and drop the contents of each F00, F01... folder individually, but not the folders themselves. So... open F00, select all, drag into iTunes and let it process. Do this with each of the 50 folders.

If you cannot do this directly via Windows, you can download a bootable CD called Ultimate Boot CD. It contains a Linux based OS for data recovery called Parted Magic. You can boot using it and access the music folder in your iPod there to be dragged onto your HDD.

Good luck and let me know how it works for you.

I just did this with someone's iPod 6th gen that was formatted to Mac and couldn't be plugged in to Win7. Worked like a charm.

 

anseio, your the man ! Didn't occur to me to unhide folders. NICE Work. How do i give u a rep? that deserse a rep up.

 

Here is another 1 for you. How do I have setup itunes for each user account. User accounts on the pc. So we don't have each others songs?

 

You're very welcome! There are 3 icons on the bottom left of each post in a thread. The middle icon (white scales) is used for giving reps.

Thanks!!!

I dunno how to do that one. I don't use multiple profiles, so haven't tried to explore that one.

The thoughts off the top of my head are that if each user has their own music folder, which is the default, then iTunes will only look into that folder for each user. If you want a centralized library, then I don't think it's possible to do what you mentioned. What do I know? I've never tinkered with that aspect.

Good luck!