Need help with a Classic

Orange Furball · Mar 18, 2013, 03:53 PM

My sister in all of her smartness decided to sync songs from about 15 different iTunes accounts of hers. That was 2-3 years ago. Now she has thousands of songs stuck on her iPod because she got a Mac. Threw out her broken PC, then threw out the iTunes backups I made for her.

Now all the sudden she needs this music and doesn't know her passwords. She figured out one which gave her ~300 songs.

Is there any way I can bypass iTunes and copy each and every song off of it to a flash drive so she will shut up? I can do it on a Mac, Windows, Linux, anything to make her stop freaking out.

Please help someone! Please!

thegreati · Mar 22, 2013, 01:09 PM

There are a few third party programs that will sync your music from the device to your computers hard drive. Senuti, Sharepod to name a couple off the top my head... google will most likely find you a reliable one for your OS.

Hope this helps!

ianwuk · Mar 23, 2013, 08:10 PM

What I used to do is connect the iPod to a PC, browse to it, set folder options to view all files and go to the IPOD CONTROL folder. Inside there you can browse to the music files with folder names like 'F456' and the mp3's will be named such as 'F67395.mp3'.

Copy all that to your desktop, drag to iTunes when done and they will appear as normal. Make sure you set iTunes to copy media to the iTunes folder when adding to library to keep a copy of all the songs on the computer and also make sure you set iTunes to automatically arrange the media folder on the computer also.

Thanks.

Ian

LeiLei · Mar 25, 2013, 01:07 PM

Ian I really like that advice, thanks!

Orange Furball · Mar 25, 2013, 01:37 PM

I'll try that today! Thank you

Mar 18, 2013, 03:53 PM	#1
Orange Furball macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Scranton, PA, USA	Need help with a Classic My sister in all of her smartness decided to sync songs from about 15 different iTunes accounts of hers. That was 2-3 years ago. Now she has thousands of songs stuck on her iPod because she got a Mac. Threw out her broken PC, then threw out the iTunes backups I made for her. Now all the sudden she needs this music and doesn't know her passwords. She figured out one which gave her ~300 songs. Is there any way I can bypass iTunes and copy each and every song off of it to a flash drive so she will shut up? I can do it on a Mac, Windows, Linux, anything to make her stop freaking out. Please help someone! Please! __________________ Hackintosh: Intel Core i5 2310 2.9GHz Quad Core, 8GB RAM, 64GB Boot SSD, 1TB OS X storage drive, 250GB Windows 7 drive, two DVD drives, running Mac OS X 10.8.1
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Mar 22, 2013, 01:09 PM	#2
thegreati macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2012	There are a few third party programs that will sync your music from the device to your computers hard drive. Senuti, Sharepod to name a couple off the top my head... google will most likely find you a reliable one for your OS. Hope this helps! __________________ http://www.repairzoom.com/ipad-repair.html
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Orange Furball Thread Starter macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Scranton, PA, USA	I'll try that today! Thank you __________________ Hackintosh: Intel Core i5 2310 2.9GHz Quad Core, 8GB RAM, 64GB Boot SSD, 1TB OS X storage drive, 250GB Windows 7 drive, two DVD drives, running Mac OS X 10.8.1
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Mar 23, 2013, 08:10 PM	#3
ianwuk macrumors regular Join Date: Dec 2010	What I used to do is connect the iPod to a PC, browse to it, set folder options to view all files and go to the IPOD CONTROL folder. Inside there you can browse to the music files with folder names like 'F456' and the mp3's will be named such as 'F67395.mp3'. Copy all that to your desktop, drag to iTunes when done and they will appear as normal. Make sure you set iTunes to copy media to the iTunes folder when adding to library to keep a copy of all the songs on the computer and also make sure you set iTunes to automatically arrange the media folder on the computer also. Thanks. Ian
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Mar 25, 2013, 01:07 PM	#4
LeiLei macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: CA	Ian I really like that advice, thanks!
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