Can I retrieve songs from ipod?

[anguscossie]

Does anyone know of third party software that will allow me to retrieve the songs off my 2nd-gen ipod? My hard drive crashed and I lost all data. Songs were synched using Music Match, which according to Apple is one-way only.

I am hoping someone may know how I can retrieve the 1200+ songs Apple is telling me are lost forever ....

Thanks.

[revenuee]

Umm ... i think you should be able to just set it up and mount it as a hard drive to your computer ... and then just drag things from and to the iPod.

Not positive about that - my iPod is still in OPEN status on the APPLE website .. hopefully it will be here before the new year

[iJon]

yeah you can, just search versiontracker.com and find a app to do it for you, there are tons out there.

iJon

[iJon]

Originally posted by revenuee
Umm ... i think you should be able to just set it up and mount it as a hard drive to your computer ... and then just drag things from and to the iPod.

Not positive about that - my iPod is still in OPEN status on the APPLE website .. hopefully it will be here before the new year
apple hides the songs from the firewire drive. you have to use tinkertool to show invisible folders and then the ipod seperates them in folders of f1-x. its very annoying, programs work much better.

iJon

[revenuee]

Originally posted by iJon
apple hides the songs from the firewire drive. you have to use tinkertool to show invisible folders and then the ipod seperates them in folders of f1-x. its very annoying, programs work much better.

iJon

Gotcha ....

hmm .. i have found that many invisible folders are visible when searching using the terminal ... sure it requires a little UNIX Commands knowledge, but it usually solves most of my problems

[jimthorn]

I recommend PodWorks (http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/). It takes a lot of the work out of it, and will rebuild your iTunes library for you too.

[mj_1903]

Although I am the developer of these types of software...

If on Windows, you don't have many options to recover the music.

If on Mac, grab iPodRip (I wrote it) or PodWorks. I would recommend iPodRip because you can use everything in it free 10 times whereas PodWorks has a restriction placed on it.

Mat

[anguscossie]

Sounds like if I'm on Windows (which I am), I might be out of luck. I looked on Versiontracker.com and nothing jumped out at me.

To iJon .... do you know of anything you can point me to on their site?

[Rezet]

A member of our UT2003 Clan: "TEAM G5" is a developer. He has this program to offer to solve your problem.
http://www.isophonic.net/olliesipodextractor/


www.teamG5.com