get an album from your ipod into your itunes!

I've noticed that lots of people have the idea that you have to download a whole new program, or dig through encoded file names, to get at the music in your ipod and put it into your pc.

It's actually pretty easy, and you can even find a certain album,song, or artist and take only that to your computer from your ipod.

You do not need to download any extra programs or software. When you download a lot of programs to your computer it tends to slow things down after a while, so getting new software for each task is not a good idea. Use the tools you already have:

Itunes

Ipod

PC running XP or Vista

these are all you need.

note: if you do something crazy and mess up your ipod or something, don't blame me. Ipod hacks are not for the faint of heart. (although this is not any kind of "hack", considering it uses only the programs meant to be used with an ipod. perhaps you should send a note to steve jobs about that, huh?) But if you're willing to take the risk this is an easy way to get that one album back to your itunes.

Step 1: Prep your ipod/itunes

First plug in your Ipod. Your ipod must be disk use enabled. To do this open itunes, and click on your ipod icon. You should click "enable disc use". Then check "manually manage music".

Eject your ipod and close itunes, then start over by plugging you ipod back in.

Comments

[pyra_builder_1337]

this works great and it was nice to know that i did not have to download stuff but it is best to copy the music to a folder then to itunes or else it may not work

[resonanteye]

I'm glad it worked for you!