is there anyway to take the music out of an ipod into a computer? without erasing the music on the ipod?

Answer 1

You would have to use a third-party program, which will cost you money. I good program that I have used is Music Rescue, which costs about $20.

Answer 2

iTunes allows only one-way synchronization of musics from computer to iPod, so if for whatever reasons such as need to reload your library on local hard disk due to desktop hard disk failure or buying new computer, you can easily copy back the video, music and song library from iPod on a Windows PC by following steps:

1. Insert your iPod to a Windows PC USB or FireWire port. (PC should runs Windows XP or other Windows operating system).
2. If your Windows PC still doesn’t have iTunes installed, skip this step. If iTunes is already installed and prompt a message on whether if you’d like to associate this iPod with this computer and deleting its content, click No. Or else you will lose your only copy of library on iTunes. Beside, ensure that ‘Enable Disk Use’ is selected.
3. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer, the iPod should be automatically detected as a portable hard drive.
4. Click on the iPod icon or the iPod portable hard drive letter to open the contents of the drive.
5. If you don’t see a folder called “iPod Control”, it’s hidden and invisible. To unhidden it so that it’s visible, go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View, and then check (enable) the option “Show hidden files and folders.”
6. Open the “iPod Control” folder, and then the Music folder.
7. The Music folder contains the iPod’s music and videos, divided into folders. Copy the library to local computer hard drive’s My Music folder.
8. The files copied have unintelligible four-letter file names. To reveal the names of the songs and other data tags, add the files to the Windows Media Player or iTunes libraries or switch to “Tiles” view in Windows Explorer.
9. Rename the file if necessary.

Beside above manual ways to copy and transfer song library from iPod to computer, or import into iTunes, there are several third party program or more commonly called iPod Manager that has the iPod copying function such as SharePod (freeware) or PodPlus (shareware).

Answer 3

I was told that when it is plugged in to a different computer than the music was downloaded with, all music on the iPod would be erased.

Answer 4

Yes. It's easiest if you use a program like iPodBack (available at Download.com and other download sites) to do this. Hopefully this link will work for you: http://www.download.com/iPodBackup/3000-2141_4-10542163.html?tag=lst-0-5

Answer 5

hmm try getting this thing called ipod rip


google it and see wt results u get

i used it wen i had to get a new comp and all my songs i wanted were on my ipod i transfered them into the itunes library!

Answer 6

try right click, select all, right click again, copy, then open up the file in your computer that you want to dump your music into and right click and paste.