Good method to transfer songs from ipod to mac
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There are few things that Mac users dread more than the sudden loss of data, whether it’s from a failed hard drive or the accidental deletion of files. No matter how you lose your files, you’ll be glad you’ve been performing regular backups.
What? You don’t have any backups, and you just accidentally deleted some of your favorite tunes and videos from your Mac? Well, all may not be lost, at least not if you’ve been keeping your iPod synced with your desktop iTunes library. If so, your iPod can serve as your backup. By following these instructions, you should be able to copy your music, movies, and videos from your iPod to your Mac, and then add them back to your iTunes library.
A quick note before we begin: If you’re using iTunes 7 or later, refer to How to Transfer Purchased Content From Your iPod to Your Mac, for an easier method that’s built into iTunes. If you’re using iTunes 9 or later refer to How to Copy iPod Music to Your Mac, for a manual method that works with your Mac and iTunes 9.x or later. If you’re using an older version of iTunes, read on for the manual method of transferring content from your iPod back to your Mac.
Before you connect your iPod to your Mac, you must ensure that iTunes won’t attempt to sync with your iPod. If it does, it might delete all of the data on your iPod. Why? Because at this point, your iTunes library is missing some or all of the songs or other files on your iPod. If you sync your iPod with iTunes, you’ll end up with an iPod that’s missing the same files that your iTunes library is missing. Once you mount your iPod on your Mac’s desktop, you would reasonably expect to be able to use the Finder to browse through its files. But if you double-click the iPod icon on your desktop, you will see just three folders listed: Calendars, Contacts, and Notes. Where are the music files? Apple chose to hide the folders that contain an iPod’s media files, but you can easily make these hidden folders visible by using Terminal, the command line interface included with OS X.
Easy 3 steps show you how to transfer music from an iPod to your Mac
Step 1: Free download iPod to Mac transfer software. It allows you to transfer all of your songs from iPod to Mac. Then, run it. Connect your iPod to Mac via USB.
Step 2: Choose the songs that you want to transfer. Click the “Export checked files to local” button to start exporting files.
Step 3: Select a local folder and click the “Save” button.
That’s it! The songs should now be on your Mac. With this iPod to Mac Transfer, you could also transfer photos, videos and any iPod files to Mac.
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