Atlanta Macintosh Users Group

The hard drive on my daughter's PC has crashed. Most of her iTunes songs are saved on her iPod. I am trying to save her collection to one of my Macs. Is there a recommended utility out there for doing this?

Also, she already had a strange problem -- none of her purchased music would play on her iPod -- only music she "ripped" from a CD and put on iTunes. Any thoughts on this?

As always, thanks for any help.

Todd Daniel

"Vista may be a copy of OSX, but it will still have the @#$% registry -- the most disastrous computer idea of all time."

Todd,

I've never had to use it myself, but I've read many recommendations for Senuti (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23390) (that's iTunes spelled backwards  ;D ) to get songs from an iPod back to a Mac.


Not sure about this one.  Hopefully, when you do get her tracks back into iTunes on your Mac, all you'll have to do is re-authorize to get the DRM tunes to play.

Good luck.

Lee.

There are so many applications that will do what you need.  Here are a few.

iPodrip -> free trial version...I think it lets you use it about five times.

http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip

iPod2mac -> free...about 2/3 of the way down the page

http://www.daniele.ch/downloads.html

iPod->Folder -> Free

http://www.longfingers.com/ipodfolder/

Here is how to de-authorize the old computer and authorize a new computer:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014