Music from iPod to PC?

Vikingod · Dec 27, 2006, 02:48 AM

Hey all, I got an iPod Nano (gen 2) for X-mas this year. I'm going through to figure it out, but damned if I can find how to take music off it and put it on my computer. I can see it's not natively supported in iTunes, anyone know of good third party programs? Thanks.

Necrosis · Dec 27, 2006, 03:15 AM

Was the music purchased /w iTunes?

Vikingod · Dec 27, 2006, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Necrosis

Was the music purchased /w iTunes?

No, it was just some stuff I had on my PC at work.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Dec 27, 2006, 06:34 PM

My sister uses a program called ephPod, I think its a damn fine little program (just so long as you don't mind converting your WMAs to MP3 first)

Vikingod · Dec 27, 2006, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by H3X4D3C1M4L

My sister uses a program called ephPod, I think its a damn fine little program (just so long as you don't mind converting your WMAs to MP3 first)

I saw that program, but its too old for my gen iPod. Seems like I will have to pay for one (gasp!).

Sandok · Dec 27, 2006, 10:21 PM

You can't remove music from the ipod? You sure you didn't sync it to itunes? Leave it unsynced and just click and drag (works on my gen 1 nano...)

bug77 · Dec 27, 2006, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by H3X4D3C1M4L

...just so long as you don't mind converting your WMAs to MP3 first...

Ouch, that hurts. Major quality loss

Vikingod · Dec 28, 2006, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandok

You can't remove music from the ipod? You sure you didn't sync it to itunes? Leave it unsynced and just click and drag (works on my gen 1 nano...)

Nope, not sync'd, tried it on two computers. From what I have read, it has to do with what version of iTunes you have, older versions (that don't support my player) allow you to drag and drop it. I have found a program called XPlay that lets me do what I want, without effecting the names and tags of the file, so I'm using that for now. Not perfect, but its pretty cheap, and does what I ask it to. May purchase it when the trial runs out. If anyone finds a free program that does the same thing (and supports new iPod's) I'm all ears. Thanks for the help everyone.

**temeteus82** · Dec 28, 2006, 05:13 PM

why use mp3 on ipod when you can use mpeg4 audio?

tastyweat · Dec 28, 2006, 05:18 PM

If you enable hidden folders... you can browse through your Ipod like any hard drive/usb drive etc and find all of your music files

That's what I did when my hdd went tits up and lost my music - got it all back from the Ipod (I have 5th Gen 30GB Ipod).

Vikingod · Dec 28, 2006, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by tastyweat

If you enable hidden folders... you can browse through your Ipod like any hard drive/usb drive etc and find all of your music files

That's what I did when my hdd went tits up and lost my music - got it all back from the Ipod (I have 5th Gen 30GB Ipod).

Does it maintain the file names and tags? I had noticed you could do that, but the file names look numeric, so I left them alone.

**temeteus82** · Dec 28, 2006, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Vikingod

Does it maintain the file names and tags?

File names are gone but tags are ok...

tastyweat · Dec 28, 2006, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Vikingod

Does it maintain the file names and tags? I had noticed you could do that, but the file names look numeric, so I left them alone.

The filenames are numeric... but if you import them into itunes/wmp (only two I tried) the file names are attached to the files somewhere and are registered correctly by those programs.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Dec 31, 2006, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by bug77

Ouch, that hurts. Major quality loss

Not that bad... you'd never notice unless you use really expensive headphones.

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Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Music from iPod to PC? Hey all, I got an iPod Nano (gen 2) for X-mas this year. I'm going through to figure it out, but damned if I can find how to take music off it and put it on my computer. I can see it's not natively supported in iTunes, anyone know of good third party programs? Thanks.

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tastyweat Lurking Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The void Posts: 4,794 Rep Power: 75 System Specs	If you enable hidden folders... you can browse through your Ipod like any hard drive/usb drive etc and find all of your music files That's what I did when my hdd went tits up and lost my music - got it all back from the Ipod (I have 5th Gen 30GB Ipod). __________________

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H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	My sister uses a program called ephPod, I think its a damn fine little program (just so long as you don't mind converting your WMAs to MP3 first)

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Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	You can't remove music from the ipod? You sure you didn't sync it to itunes? Leave it unsynced and just click and drag (works on my gen 1 nano...)