iPod Rip Songs From fat 32 mini to pc then convert to mac

[macbeliever]

Hi All,

I have an old iPod mini that still powers up and plays music. The pc with the actual files is long gone. I have close to 4 gbs worth of mp3s on the mini. What I want to do is rip the songs back to a windows pc. Then convert them over to my mac.

They were all installed CDs that I owned not purchased through iTunes.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[AdrianK]

FAT32 doesn't matter, it's natively supported (read and write) by Mac OS X, so you don't need to touch a windows machine

Plug it in to your mac, go to iTunes, select the mini, and enable Disk Mode/Usage/whatever. The mini should now show up in the finder.

Type this in to finder so it will show hidden files

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

in Finder, go to Go > Go to Folder and paste

/Volumes/ipod/iPod_Control/Music

Where "iPod" is what your iPod's name appears to be in Finder.

Once you're there type m4a (or mp3 in to the search bar, dependant on which format you're music's in, if you're not sure try one after the other) in the search bar. Then change Search "This Mac" to "Music".

Finder will show a list of your music, copy and paste it to wherever you want. You might want to use an app to change those funky file names to the name of the song, II'm not sure what you could use to do this :/