Getting music off an iPod using Mac OS X!

Step 4 Transferring the music to iTunes

Now what? If you were industrious you went into the folders and saw a bunch of .mp3 .mp4 .m4a files with random four letter capital names. That's your music alright but it's sorted and categorized in a funny iPod manner which I don't understand.

No worries!!! It doesn't matter anyway because when we open the files it automatically copies the song to iTunes Library and puts it in the correct format*!

• Unless its a double, then it remains as the goofy 4 letters sometimes

Here's where out magical "open" command comes in along with some other cool characters called "wildcards."

I'll spare an explanation of wildcards except for that the * character means "everything" to the computer. So instead of individually opening every file in every F## file I can just tell the computer to open all files in all F## files!

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VERY IMPORTANT!!!
-First, make sure you have enough time to copy all music. Depending on how much this could take a VERY long time.
-Second, beware that this will copy ALL MUSIC from the iPod even if you already have copies of some of the songs so prepare to delete some doubles.
-Third, make sure you are in the "Music" directory when you type these commands in. If you're in an F## file just type "cd .."

Type "open F*/*"

which in computer speak means "open every file in every directory starting with F" which is exactly what we want!

Now watch in satisfaction as every music file on your iPod is copied to your iTunes Library!