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  1. Damage1 Damage1 is offline

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    Mar 21st, 2008 (3/21/2008 10:37pm)

    so one of my friends itunes library was completely wiped out and they (and i) dont know how to restore the library. songs are still on the ipod, but im assuming they shouldnt plug it in to the computer or the ipod would get erased too.

    so basically how does one restore an itunes library?
  2. GPop21 GPop21 is offline

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    Mar 21st, 2008 (3/21/2008 10:39pm) in reply to Damage1

    if its the same comp it should be able to transfer and at the least transfer purchases.

    if it doesnt recognize the ipod then google software that can get past the barriers and let him copy them easily.
  3. railbot railbot is offline

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    Mar 21st, 2008 (3/21/2008 10:41pm) in reply to Damage1

    k, here goes,

    plug in ipod.
    go to my computer
    find k:drive or whatever drive ipod is on
    open
    music
    copy all onto your desktop
    open itunes
    add folders to library
    viola ,

    apple got hip to the game and crushed the dream of transferring song titles over so...

    google
    torrents
    copypod
    or any software that aloows you to rip ipods..

    gl.//
  4. Damage1 Damage1 is offline

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    Mar 21st, 2008 (3/21/2008 10:45pm) in reply to railbot

    but wont plugging in the ipod automatically sync it to the libary and therefore delete everything?
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  5. railbot railbot is offline

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    Mar 21st, 2008 (3/21/2008 10:48pm) in reply to Damage1

    that depends on how you have your itunes sync'd up

    open itunes and select manually manage songs and playlist's
  6. ronjon13 ronjon13 is offline

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    Mar 22nd, 2008 (3/22/2008 2:51am) in reply to railbot

    there is software that does this, i cant remember but use google
  7. dank773 dank773 is offline

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    Mar 22nd, 2008 (3/22/2008 3:00am) in reply to ronjon13

    I actually just did this for the first time today, I used "copypod". I bought an external hard drive and wanted to backup all the songs I have on my ipod but have deleted from my computer. Really easy to use, took a while though, but I have about 40 gig's on my ipod.
  8. nickq nickq is offline

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    Mar 22nd, 2008 (3/22/2008 3:06am) in reply to ronjon13

    Did Apple really start disallowing transfers recently? I've traded over 40 gigs of music before.

    Used to be you could go to folder options under My Computer and enable hidden folders to be viewed. Then just go to whichever movable storage the ipod is under. Select the hidden folder iPod Control and under that select Music. You'll see a bunch of folders titled F00-F50 or something similar. These are the music files. Copy them and transfer to storage on the computer. You then open ITunes and import the files from whereever you saved them.

    I've done this as recently as Nov. and I've been able to accumulate a ton of music by getting friends libraries right off there Ipods when they have them with them. Sucks if you can't still do that.
  9. dank773 dank773 is offline

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    Mar 22nd, 2008 (3/22/2008 3:08am) in reply to nickq

    You can still do that, but as mentioned above, the song titles don't come along with the files.
  10. nickq nickq is offline

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    Mar 22nd, 2008 (3/22/2008 3:14am) in reply to dank773

    Hm, always works for me. Do you have Auto-Sort selected? I do and Itune files them for me.
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