Ripping music off an iPod?

eric.

Hey guys, I recently reformatted (for the umpteenth time now) my XP-based computer, and could not back up my computer, as I had a virus that completely fucked with my ability to boot the computer, even to safe mode, so it was impossible to save my music files. I had no extra computer to put my HDD into to back them up either. So I have an iPod thats' registered to my computer before it was formatted, and I have almost 6,000 mp3s that I really do not feel like re-downloading. Is there any possible way I can put them back onto my computer? I have tried manually going into my iPod's folders using explorer, and I can copy some mp3s, but after a couple of them transferring, I get an error saying "cannot read from the source disk", so that isn't an option, sadly. If anyone knows of any other way to do this, it'd be a huge help.

thanks.

Mmmm... Cocks...

I use to use Ephpod.
It works for what you want. Though I don't think it works with new things like the touch.
Dunno if they ever found a work around for that or not. But this worked nicely for me.

There are a few negative reviews there *shrug*. I've suggested it to tons of people for your very predicament. I've never heard a single complaint. But just thought I'd stamp a "user beware" on my post.

Janin

http://lifehacker.com/software/ipod/how-to-copy-songs-from-your-ipod-to-your-pc-105256.php

If some files do not copy due to I/O errors, just skip them and copy the rest.

Orikaeshigitae

I used iDump. It's simple and easy to use, and organizes your files according to ID3 tags.

http://www.download.com/iDump/3000-2169_4-10407429.html

Monoxide

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

I used iDump. It's simple and easy to use, and organizes your files according to ID3 tags.

http://www.download.com/iDump/3000-2169_4-10407429.html

fuck I hope this works better than ephpod and anapod

I've been trying to get my 80gb iPod backed up for months and both of them keep either crashing or skipping random songs or albums

they apparently have problems with large libraries

McCly

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

I used iDump. It's simple and easy to use, and organizes your files according to ID3 tags.

http://www.download.com/iDump/3000-2169_4-10407429.html

I use that too, and I've never had a problem.

Neb54

I was going to have to do the same thing a little while ago, then my iPod was stolen so it was no longer an issue :P

Orikaeshigitae

Monoxide wrote: »

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

I used iDump. It's simple and easy to use, and organizes your files according to ID3 tags.

http://www.download.com/iDump/3000-2169_4-10407429.html

fuck I hope this works better than ephpod and anapod

I've been trying to get my 80gb iPod backed up for months and both of them keep either crashing or skipping random songs or albums

they apparently have problems with large libraries

I have the same model of iPod as you. It worked fine.

Dark Shroud

http://lifehacker.com/394046/copy-music-from-your-iphone-or-ipod-to-your-computer-for-free

Spoit

I toggled off auto-sync for my podcasts because I wanted to copy over a few podcasts which I don't plan to sync without having to delete the rest, but now my ipod refuses to see the 9 gigs of podcasts I already have on it.

Anyone have any suggestions for a better solution than just using one of these solutions and doing a factory reset? Or going through all 30 gigs of music and trying to manually search and destroy the 3rd of them which are podcasts