iPod Lifeboat

[Todd Daniel]

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."

[LHoong]

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?

Todd,

I've never had to use it myself, but I've read many recommendations for Senuti (that's iTunes spelled backwards  ) to get songs from an iPod back to a Mac.

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?

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.

[Robert Mitravich]

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.t...?app=iPodRip

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

http://www.d...wnloads.html

iPod->Folder -> Free

http://www.l.../ipodfolder/

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

http://docs....artnum=93014