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My advice is, seriously, to put the tihing on ebay and buy a plug and play mp3 player. The Creative brand produce the best mp3 players going. They do not need any form of drivers or paracitic programs to function and can be connected to any pc via standard usb. after which you can download all the tunes you lost.

IPOD is THE BOLLOCKS!!
As is my Macbook!!!

i can make videos ya know.

Hi Rodders,

I might be able to help you - can you let me know what iPod you are using?
Also, what happened to the music in your iTunes? do you still have all the music files on your PC that you can transer back into iTunes?

C

you could try start>accesories>system tools>system restore


will set your syste back to a certain date but not sure if it tracks changes to the iTunes folder

CraigPollard wrote:Hi Rodders,

I might be able to help you - can you let me know what iPod you are using?
Also, what happened to the music in your iTunes? do you still have all the music files on your PC that you can transer back into iTunes?

C

Hiya Craig, Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

I have an iPod touch 64 GB. I was updating to the new version of iTunes when the computer crashed and when I restarted, the update finished but my iTunes library was empty! Nada.

I only have about a third of the music on my PC so there's about 2500 songs gone AWOL as a result of this.

Why didn't I do a back up???

RNTGOONER wrote:you could try start>accesories>system tools>system restore


will set your syste back to a certain date but not sure if it tracks changes to the iTunes folder

Cheers, will try that if all else fails, what have I to lose eh!!

Rodders, you owe me a pint. Taken from http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 5#10570955

Open iTunes first and go to Edit>Preferences>Devices and check the box "Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods" and choose Ok. Then connect your iPod.

iTunes will only let you copy your iTunes Store purchases directly from an iPod to the computer, you'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer

For everything else (music from CDs, other downloads and including iTunes purchased songs and in some cases, videos and games) there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well.
A selection of iPod to iTunes utilities:

TuneJack - Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.ipodsoft.com/site/pmwiki.php ... k.HomePage

SharePod - Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Sec ... e=Sharepod

iPod2PC - Windows Only
http://www.casicakes.com/

iDump - Windows Only
http://www.download.com/iDump/3000-2169_4-10407429.html

YamiPod- Mac and Windows
http://www.yamipod.com/

iPod Music Liberator - Mac & Windows
http://www.zeleksoftware.com/

Floola - Mac & Windows
http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/

iPodRip - Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)


iPod Music Liberator - Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.zeleksoftware.com/

Music Rescue - Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/

iGadget - Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.ipodsoft.com/index.php?/software/igadget

iRepo - Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.purpleghost.com/irepo.php

iPod Access - Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.findleydesigns.com/ipodaccess/indexWin.html

TouchCopy - Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php


There's also a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to a Mac or PC. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available on page 2 at this link: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articl ... omputer/P0

I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

quality,RG!

i'm saving all those links in a file for when i need them!

brazilianGOONER wrote:quality,RG!

i'm saving all those links in a file for when i need them!

Gotta love the internet, why bother tring to figure something out yourself, some nerd has probably done it alreday and told the world about it.

Cheers RG. Was away last week but will have a look at those tonight. Starting to lose the stomach for it so hope it works. Will ply you full of alcohol if successful!

use a dumper mate. worked for me.

iDump is perfect and really easy to use. Go for that.

Thanks again folks. Tried a lot of the ones mentioned above last night before having a mild nervous breakdown. Will give idump a whirl tonight.

How did you get on?

paperclip wrote:How did you get on?

took a few days off but tried idump last night with.........wait for it.....NO FUCKING SUCCESS

it keeps telling me the ipod is not connected when it is!!! then on the odd occasion when it recognises the ipod it tells me it's not in manual mode when, you guessed it......it is!!!!

so i wave the white flag, well done apple you bunch of complete *word censored*, you win