How To Transfer Ipod Music Video Back To New Computer Or Itunes On Mac And Windows

Why staying silent with Apple's silly DRM license protection when got computer crash or wanted to transfer iTunes library to news computer? Copy music & video back from any iPod to new iTunes or computer easily now!

NOTE: This step-by-step tutorial is taking Windows-based computer for example, but the method works the same for Mac users. Do it at your own risk, never disconnect your iPod when transferring or synchronizing!

Step 1. Plug your iPod into computer

Connect the USB cord from your iPod to your computer. Minimize iTunes if it starts.



Step 2. Get your iPod music to computer.

Click Start > My Computer > Your iPod, then in the explorer menu click Tools > Folder Options then click the “View” tab. Make sure 'Show hidden files and folders' is selected. Click OK.

Find the iPod Music folder, it’s in iPod_Control. Drag and drop the Music folder to your desktop. Wait for it to transfer. One thing forgot to mention --- if you’re backing DRM-protected AAC(.m4p) music with license you’re not authorized, you can use this Protected Music Converter to strip the DRM first.

Once copying done, right click the folder and make sure 'Hidden' is unchecked. The music is now on your PC!

Step 3. Transfer iPod music into iTunes.Now, there are two paths. Make sure iTunes is started.

If your iTunes is set to automatically copy and sort music (recommended):
1. Drop and drag the Music folder from your desktop into iTunes and wait for it to copy.
2. Delete the Music folder off the desktop. It's no longer needed.

If your iTunes is set so that the user copies and sorts music:
1. Move the Music folder into your preferred directory.
2. Drag and drop the new music into your iTunes.



Step 4. Back iPod music into iTunes with ID3 Tags.

Need to know what song is what? You can setup Windows Explorer to display the mp3's tags. Here's how:
1. In the explorer window go to View > Details
2. Then go to View > Display Details
3. Choose what you want to be displayed (Like Title or Artist)
4. Click Ok
If you click on any of the columns at the top it will organize your music by the detail you clicked alphabetically.

More info to sync iPod music video to iTunes

- It will not work for DRM-protected music videos unless you have the authorized account. (There is DRM Media Converter that can remove DRM protection and convert them back into MP3 or MP4 I believe you still need the log-in account though.)

- By using this method you can copy the music video movie from any iPods that are from any iTunes, they don't have to be yours. Grab a copy of your friends music!

- This should work on all iPod models (iPod touch, iPod Classics, iPod Nano or Shuffle), whatever iPod you have.

Part 2. One-stand way to transfer iPod music video back to new computer or iTunes with iPod transfer

There are also one-stand iPod backup & recovery software, the picked iPod transfer here makes it easy to copy back songs, videos and DVD movies from iPod to computer when your iTunes library got lost by whatever reason. With it you also can backup your iPod videos and music to computer when you need to send your iPod for repair or get computer crashed.



If you're Mac-based user, this free iPod Sync for Mac dose great job.

Enjoy your beautiful digital life!

Isn't there another way to play the .m4p or .m4v media files and have another program convert it to mp3, ogg, or wma? I have not had the time to look into this, but I'm sure there are media utilities softwares out there the do the conversion (quality up, quality down, or formats) for the many types of media players on the market.

When MP3's 1st started coming out ten years ago, there was a lot of trial-an-error and not consistences among the various software media players companies implementations.

Then there was alway convert to .wav and import back as an .mp3/.wma and manual add the ID information. I'm old skool

How to get songs and videos from iPod, iPhone to Mac/iTunes for free

iTunes can help you sync music to your iPod or iPhone easily while it just don't allow you to transfer ipod music to iTunes or transfer iPhone videos to mac free. That makes it really annoying when you accidently delete your iTunes Library, have a hard disc reformat, or move iPod content from on computer to another. In these occasion, You need a third-party program to do the task and FreeSync is a totally free program that meets your needs.

How to transfer iPod/iPhone music and videos to iTunes on Mac

1.Launch iSkysoft FreeSync and then connect iPod or iPhone to Mac.

2.Click "Music" or "Movies" playlist and then tick the file you want to export.



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3.Click "iPod To Mac" to start transferring your music or movies file to your Mac.

4.Select a destination folder to save your iPod or iPhone content and click "OK"



Now you are ready to import Music or Movies to iTunes. Launch iTunes, and you can either drag the output folder of you iPod/iPhone content to the "Library" icon and let iTunes to classify your music and movies, or go to "File" pane and select "Add to Library" to navigate to output iPod/iPhone content and add it to iTunes.



Note: If you want to transfer iPod movies to mac free or transfer songs from iPhone to iTunes (iTunes 9 included), SyncPod will meet your needs! SyncPod supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone OS 3.0, iPod touch upgrade to 3.0, and the new iPods released on Apple "Rock and Roll" media event