Tranfer iPod music onto macbook?

Question

I searched this already and went through all the answers but none seemed to help.
I need to transfer the music on my iPod onto my macbook. When I plug it in, and go into the iPod's file thing, there isn't any music. All the programs I downloaded either couldn't find it, or wouldn't copy all of them at once. Help?

SCORE. I just figured out how to do it on my own! :)

Answer 1

These are instructions for a windows pc, but im not sure if you can use it on your mac computer.... never hurts to try.


How to copy songs from your iPod to your PCA reader points out a straightforward way for Windows users to transfer music from an iPod to your hard drive, without extra software:

Connect the iPod to your PC. If iTunes starts syncing (ie erasing) your music automatically, hit the X in the upper right hand corner of iTunes display, to the left of the search box, to stop it.

In Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, double-click your iPod.
In the Tools menu -> Options, in the View Tab, check "Show hidden files and folders."

Navigate to the Music folder. On my 2nd gen 'pod, the full path is
Portable Media Devices\GINA'S IPOD (F:)\iPod_Control\Music
Select all the music folders, and drag and drop them into a folder on your hard drive, or directly into iTunes.

And you're done! The iPod music folder structure is strange and inexplicable, but once you move your files into iTunes you can set it to automatically organize your folder by artist and album to clean that up. (To do this, in iTunes Edit menu, choose preferences and in the Advanced tab, check "Keep iTunes Music Folder organized.")

If you give this a go, lemme know how it goes. I'll ammend the instructions with any additional info for other versions of Windows and iPods. Thanks, Shelby!

Answer 2

I don't think you can transfer music out of your iPod. I believe there is a legal reason called Digital Rights Managment that requires software companys not to allow this. It is to protect the copyright holders from people making illigal copies. The problem is, it hurts the people that have legally purchased the songs, podcasts, audio books, etc.

Answer 3

there is a program called floola at floola.com, you could try accesing with it, but i think that what you want is to transfer the music into your different computers, what will be more suitable or easy or i don't know is enabling your ipod into disk mode and use it as a hard drive

Answer 4

To go from i-pod to mac book you have to download a program like i-crack because it violates apples copyright laws.