My home computer crashed. My itune is empty on home computer. how can I put my music from my pod to new comp?

Question

My home computer crashed, My i tune is empty on home computer. How can I put my music from my ipod to new lab top?

Answer 1

In order to copy music off an ipod, you need a third party application, as iTunes does not allow you to pull music off the ipod, only erase or upload music to the ipod. There are A LOT of programs that will do this. Be sure that when you plug the ipod in, you say no to syncing the ipod with that itunes library until after you've used one of these apps.

A few that I've found for windows, though I haven't necessarily tried them all:
iGadget ( http://www.ipodsoft.com/ )
YamiPod ( http://www.yamipod.com/ )
iPod2PC ( http://www.casicakes.com/ )
iRepo ( http://www.ipodsoft.com/ )
iPod->Folder ( http://www.longfingers.com/ipodfolder/ )
ephpod ( http://www.ephpod.com/ )
iPod 2 iTunes ( http://www.theboysdownunder.com/ )
CopyTrans ( http://www.copytrans.net/ )

If you use a mac, or just don't like these programs for whatever reason, you can always do a search for "ipod" on versiontracker.com

*Disclaimer: These programs are designed to allow you to back up or reinstate music from your ipod back onto your computer should something happen. They are not meant for you to illegally share your music with other people. If you have music purchased from the iTunes Store, these programs will NOT remove the DRM from these songs and they will not play on other computers and/or ipods unless that itunes is authorized with the same iTunes store account.

Answer 2

If you have a fresh install of iTunes, the first time you connect the iPod to the computer iTunes will prompt you to copy the "paid" for music from iPod to the iTunes library.

You need to authorize the new computer to play the music that you paid for.

Hopefully you've learned that you need to backup your files now?

Answer 3

Try this one...

http://www.download.com/iPod-to-Computer-Transfer/3000-2141_4-10719938.html

It worked for me.