How do I get songs off my iPod?

On the mac side of things, there's Senuti (get it?), which is free.

Does this work the same way for other MP3 players...or just IPods? I'm looking at a similar transfer situation, but my files are .wma and I use a non-IPod player.

Kim, most MP3 players are far easier to work with than the iPod. Try plugging your device into your PC and I bet it'll just show up on your desktop as another device, with a folder neatly labeled "Music" or similar.

Dave,
My grandson gave me his 40gig iPod cause he got a new video one for Christmas. It is windows formatted, I am on a Mac.
I can play the songs on the iPod but can not add from my library or move from the ipod to my library.
Any ideas ???

Senuti did the trick !!!

While this is very helpful information, there is something else you should know. I think the problem is that when someone hooks the ipod to a computer with no music library, itunes AUTOMATICALLY updates your ipod to mirror that computer's library (which in this case would be no library, and that is why everything gets deleted). To avoid this, before connecting your ipod, you have to go into the itunes preferences and select the ipod tab at the top. Then press the button next to "Manually manage songs and playlists". This will stop itunes from automatically updating your ipod.

You can also download all the music from your ipod to your computer as Dave suggests here, but if you don't want to do that (like if it's your work computer and you just want to listen to songs that are on your ipod through your computer speakers), you can just do what I'm telling you to do here.

Dave,

How about taking an iPod that used to talk to iTunes via Windows and now has to work with Linux (Ubuntu)?

Erik

That shouldn't be too hard, Erik. Have a look here:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_ubuntu_ipod.html

Most of my songs "Failed to transfer" even though they were ALL legally purchased on iTunes. so in addition to the money i just spent on this program, it looks like i'll be re-buying more than half of my music collection which included over a thousand songs.

I like Itunes SDK, it works with itunes instead of separately. No additional steps to add to your itunes library. Its free and you can get more information about it at http://www.itunessdk.com/xport

I see a podcast that i don't want in my library. i delete it. But it DOESN"T DELETE OFF MY IPOD. HELPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My brother put a whole bunch of songs on my iPod that i dont like or want on there. How do i take them off ?

Is there a similar piece of software that will enable me to get songs off my Sony NW A3000?

Not all of the songs in my iTunes library transfer to my ipod after updating. It's wierd, because those same songs will transfer when in a playlist. How do I get the full library to transfer?

hi there. My partners friend put some music on my ipod a few months back. i cant stand the music thats on there. i got told that i cant delete the music off another computer just his. the thing is he sold his computer a few weeks ago. what can i do i dont want any music on there

well i have been messing with ipods for quite a while and this software i have been using to download music well its actually more of copying if you are on a network and other people have itunes and they share their music so you can listen through your itunes but cant have well now you can with mytunes redux it simply copies the songs to your computer in about 4 seconds its pretty sweet

There is a really easy way to do on macs. All you have to do is download a program from apple called mac pilot. Once you have done that it will have a bar on the top that says desktop click that. There will be a list of things that you can do click on the one that says show hidden files. Then click apply changes. After you have done that hook up your ipod and click on the image that appears on your desktop you should know have new folders in that window. Click on the one that says i pod control. A new window should appear and then click the one that says music. Another window should open with folder in it labled f 01 or something like that. That is all the music on your ipod but it is labled something different that doesn't matter. When you open one of the f folders drag the songs into itunes. It is very simply. I'm doing this on my school laptop. If you want to figure out how to get the admin pass for any mac comp unless the owners is smart, e-mail me.

So, to put this iPodCopy stuff in layman's terms: If we register for some $20-ish, we can obtain music/videos from or send music/videos to either a MAC or PC, regardless of how our iPod has been formatted??? Correct??

In my particular case, I downloaded nearly 400 songs onto my iPod from a MAC and now will lose them all if I format to my new PC laptop. Argh!!
I am hoping this iPodCopy deal will remedy my problem. PLEASE DO TELL!!

Thanks!

ipod copy thing dont work. it says "no iPod found" i put the ipod in the usb like 10 times and the ipod copy program dont recognise it.

Hey. A friend of mine said that there you can "lock" songs on your ipod so that no one else can see them. How do you do that?

I am having a little trouble putting new songs in my Ipod nano. Everytime I plug my ipod in my computer, the list of songs from my ipod wouldn't show. I mean I tried deleting the program and reinstalling it and resetting my ipod. I've heard that I should format my ipod. What should I do?

okay, i was putting songs on my ipod nano, and then i tried putting one more in and it said there was no more room. so i decided, okay i will delete some so i will have more room. but i have no clue on how to delete them, everytime i delete them off of itunes in my library it deletes them off of my library and NOT my actual ipod so i still dont have any room on my ipod. :[ please help me, i've asked everyone and spent about 5 hours in total trying. so pleeeeease help. im thinking maybe i should just restore it and then just add the songs i truly want on my ipod. but i dont know becuase im not that technology smart. and everyone always says to go to edit, preferences, ipod, manually update or whatever. and my preferences doesnt have an ipod tab!
HELP!

Ok so i went to my cousins and got songs from here computer because she has cable and when i brought my iPod home i had to hack into it so the songs would be on my iTunes library. I reset my ipod and the songs are listed on my library but when i click on htem it says original file not found. Do you want to search for it? So how can i get those songs back on my iPod?

my mom bought me a ipod and there is a lot of songs that are really bad and nasty how do i get them off now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand that this is all about ipods, but I was wondering if you can do the same for MP3 Players. I an RCA and i have put 82 songs on it. I bought some songs and went to put them on, but it keeps telling me that it didn't fit. I'm highly confused because I believe the box said 8 hours or 200 songs. I've tried over and over but no matter what I try, it just won't do anything. If there is any way that you can help me, it would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you!

It didnt answer any of my questions at all like i just dont understand like why maybe you dont know what you are like talking about

Hey,

Thanks alot for helping me this is so effective without this website i think i would be lost thankyou so much!!!!!!!!!

people people there is an easy way to get your music off your ipod all you have to do is go to my computer and go to tools>folder options>View>hidden files and folders and select show hidden files and folders and go to your ipod a new folder called ipod control should be there go in and into music and all your music folders are organized there

how do i get songs off of my ipod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

i have the video ipod...how/or is there any way to take my movies off my ipod and put them back onto my computer? any program or do i change some config in itunes? thanks very much

Thank you for this information - I was getting really mad that a new computer and an old (3/2007)80GM iPod was not a good combination. the only thing that would not copy using Ipod copy were the games. I did buy the program the first day I looked at it. Do you know a fix for that?

Uhhhh i have an ipod video and while i was cleaning out my computer i accidently deleted all my songs from itunes, BUT, the songs are still on my ipod is there any way i can get them from my ipod to my computer without deleting them

my mp3 needs formating, but i have heaps off songs on there and if i format it it will delete all of tehm. is there a way i can get the songs off there before formatting?

I have a 4gb ipod. It is just about full of songs. I have several that I would like to remove to make room for newer songs that I am more interested in at this time. Is it possible to remove songs from your ipod? Thanks for your help!

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i have a limewire folder but i cant drag the song i want to my library. HELP!!!!!

After reading these comments I am even *more* thankful that I never bought an iPod. Let's see they are more expensive and more difficult to use? I like my new Sansa clip. It's super easy to use and I can download/upload songs in a snap! ;)

HELP!! how do i change out movies on my ipod?

My ipodnano has no volume at all recently, checked settings they where fine also reset nano still notta. any ideas?

hi dave.i have a mp3 player sandrick.how can i put song to my mp3 to my mucis library or folder.

my friend gave me an ipod nano and put 1400 songs on it for me. i want to add my own songs from my computer (g4) but i can't. what can i do? i'm not so scared to lose the songs he put on for me.

I have read through all of these posts and unless I overlooked it, I did not see a question similar to my problem. My nephew put some songs on my Itunes so that he could sync his ipod as he does not own a computer. I took the little check out of the box before I hooked mine up to sync and yet, the songs still went onto my ipod. I don't want to delete them from Itunes but rather only off of my ipod. How do I do this and how do I keep them from transferring on there in the future?? I like the Itunes application so I would like to continue to use this. Help!!

how do i delete songs of my ipod nano??

my ipod is now conneted to the computer.i want to add and delete music but i dont know how.i dont have itunes music library stored on the computer not even itunes program.please help me,iam from liberia west Africa.

Hi Dave,

I have an apple configured ipod synced with my mac back home. I am away at school and using a PC. Is there any way to transfer my apple configured ipod to my PC itunes? the only solution I can figure out is configuring my ipod to windows and then using iPodCopy, but i cant reconfigure it being I'm 400 miles from home. I have such a headache! Any ideas?

ok dave ive never had to have help with this befor, although i never had this promblem but ok thier is 3 folders that start out on your ipod fresh out the box, k, and well i pushed somthing i shouldnt have " this ipod B-Rezzy cannot be synced. the required foler cannot be found " and i dont know how to get that back so if you can help me out i would greatly oppretiate it thanx
Santiago

hi dave, im trying to get some songs off of my ipod nano to put other songs on it but i dont know how. can you tell me how to delete the songs without downloading anything else?

Hi

the year of my computer is 2001, can I download music from it on to an ipod?