How to Move Music From iPod to Computer

We are quite familiar with moving music from a computer or Mac to a mp3 player. But what if accidentally all the data on your computer gets erased? You might think, 'at least I have all my favorite music on my mp3 player or iPod, phew'! If you have a mp3 player of any company other than Apple, you will get the music from your mp3 player to your computer in a jiffy, but if you have an iPod it will take some extra time and effort to move that music to your computer or Mac. Because transferring music from a mp3 player from any other company is very easy. You just have to connect the player to the computer using the USB, and copy and paste the music from or to the music player in the computer. However, due to increase in music piracy Apple has made the process a little different, not difficult but different. There are many apple iPod users who do not know how to move music from iPod to computer. Some of the old users also don't know the exact procedure. In the following paragraphs you will learn how to transfer music from iPod to computer.

Copy Music from iPod to Computer
The things you need to go about this task of transferring or moving music from iPod to computer are your iPod, a computer, the data cable of the iPod and the Apple iTunes software. Now follow these simple steps to know how to transfer music from iPod touch to computer and vice versa.

• Connect the iPod to the computer by plugging in the data cable into one of the USB slots of your computer.
• Now a window will pop up which will give you options like open the drive, play music, etc. If you don't have 'auto run' you will have to go to 'My Computer' and open the iPod drive by double clicking on it.
• Now you have to enable the viewing of hidden files and folders. For doing that you will have to click on the 'Tools' tab on the menu bar which will give you a drop down menu. From this menu select 'Folder Options' from which you have to select 'view' and check the 'show hidden files and folders option'.
• Now in the iPod drive you will see a new folder named iPod_control. There will be more folders inside this folder from which you have to select the 'Music' folder.
• There you are! Now select the music you want to move to your computer and copy-paste it on your computer drive.

How to Move Music from iPod to Mac
But yet you don't know all about how to move music from iPod to computer. This is because functions on the Mac are different from that on other PCs. So in the subsequent paragraphs we will see how to transfer music from iPod to Mac and vice versa.

• For making this transfer also you will require the latest version of the Apple iTunes,your iPod and a MacBook.
• Open iTunes and select the option 'manually manage music and videos' from the iPod preferences window.
• Next, you have to open 'Terminal' and type 'defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE' and press Return.
• Now type 'killall Finder' which will let all the hidden files and folders in the open.
• Amongst them will be the Music folder, open it and make the necessary transfer.

There are some other third party software available that help you make the transfer. You can buy them on the net. But do not download these software from any peer to peer sites as they will be pirated and will not work properly with the iPod. I hope this tutorial on how to move music from iPod to computer was helpful.