Backing Up My iPod

whitetar · Feb 8, 2008

just wondering if it is possible to back up my 30g ipod to an external drive?

NONE of my music is in my itunes library; it's all on my ipod.

i came across a few articles that showed how to transfer your itunes library, but again, everything is on my ipod and not in itunes.

can this be done? any ideas?

Del · Feb 8, 2008

Yes it can be done.

Search this forum and you will find the name of a piece of software to transfer songs off the ipod back to the computer. Sorry but i cant remember the name of the software.

TenderSurrender · Feb 8, 2008

http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/

~~ TS ~~

Del · Feb 8, 2008

Aye Senuti, thats the one i was referring to but couldnt remember the name of.

whitetar · Feb 9, 2008

is there any danger of doing this? can this process damage your ipod?

crazytreeman · Feb 10, 2008

software... so no. you're safe

mcjacksonnelson · Feb 15, 2008

PodManager works really well, plus its free. not sure if it works with leopard or not.

http://podmanager.brunoblondeau.com/

takes a while for it go thru your entire ipod library but once its done, you can "select all" or "select artist" and save to your HDD or any other drive on your network.

dauber · Feb 15, 2008

whitetar said:
just wondering if it is possible to back up my 30g ipod to an external drive?

Did you put it in "Reverse"?

Chrisblaze · Feb 15, 2008

cant you just select all and backup library to disk.

xsx- · Feb 16, 2008

It isn't even necessary to download programs to transfer the music. Make hidden folders / files visible, and under ipod_control in the ipod directory you will find your music. they are in folders..i.e. F00, F01, and so forth. Select all the songs (not folders) and drag into itunes, or the designated place to move them to.

appleisgreat · Feb 17, 2008

xsx- said:
It isn't even necessary to download programs to transfer the music. Make hidden folders / files visible, and under ipod_control in the ipod directory you will find your music. they are in folders..i.e. F00, F01, and so forth. Select all the songs (not folders) and drag into itunes, or the designated place to move them to.

i am pretty sure you are talking about on a windows machine? you can't do that with OS X