Is there a way to copy the music from your iPod onto a USB?

I accidentally emptied my trash on a Mac OS laptop not knowing that the music files I put in the trash where those connecting to my iTunes Library. It's about 12gb worth of music and it took forever to get it all up there, editing etc.

Is there no possible way to convert from your iPod onto an external drive? Is it just the case of sticking with the iPod now (I luckily put everything I needed onto it earlier today) until the battery dies which should be years from now?

I've tried recovering files but for one thing it would mean learning all the ins and outs of that and plus it costs money to buy a subscription to those.

If I'm guaranteed years worth out of this iPod and theres no other way I think I will be ok doing all this again at some point in the (very) distant future

Thank you for reading.

 

Not sure why you went about this whole process the way you did. You are NOT guaranteed years worth of anything out of your iPod so you need to use SharePod or whatever to get that content back onto you Mac asap.

 

Any chance you have your laptop files backed up anywhere?

 

Nowhere I'm afraid.

The thing is, I collect studio albums but a lot is rare/unreleased songs I've got from the internet, the whole process of putting it back on could take a long time.

However to take the risk and not put it on now and to wait until the iPod dies would mean nothing having the source of knowing exactly what songs I need using the iPod as guidance and coming up with repeating the same discography but going through endless lists of artists full discographies and rarities and then putting them in chronological order onto compilations.

At the same time, this PC is like 7 years old, the "y" key broke not too long ago, its running on its last legs, it probably has longer than you would think as a lot of electronics can outstay what you would think they could but its unsafe that's for sure. To put in the time and effort now would be a risk but if I were to do it and then put it on a USB as I originally was going to.. I don't know

Thanks for reply

 

Believe me that was not my original plan, it was a bad accident.

 

Senuti will do it for you. (iTunes spelled backwards). You can try it out free for a few weeks, which is great if you only need to use it once.

 

I'll try that Isaac, let me google it.


EDIT: It doesn't support this Mac, MAC OS.

 

Well to be a little more helpful, which Mac and what version of OS X are you running ?

 

MacBookPro1, 1

Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Darwin 10.8.0

 

Humm??? I have a Macbook Pro Early 2011 with Mac OX 10.6.8 and I used Senuti with my 160 gig iPod Classic, with absolutely no problems!

 

"Senuti requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later." From their website, I don't understand wh just won't let me

 

How does it not let you ? Does it download from the website ? Are you downloading from www.fadingred.com/senuti/download ?

 

I doubled click it and it sas it can't support this tpe of Mac

I used that download, es.

 

USB what?

 

There's an older version of Senuti that should work for you. http://wstein.org/senuti/

 

Thank you for letting us know your y key is dead, you are starting to make more sense! Good luck, and let's think about letting iTunes do more of the work loading and unloading your ipod next time and get out of this move files around mindset. I cannot remember the last time I even looked at my iTunes music folder; I probably cannot even name it, but that is just me I guess.

 

I'm a Windows user, and your issue is not completely clear to me, but I'll ask, what is preventing you from copying the iPod folder containing your music files to an external (USB) drive?

 

The "The Brute-Force Approach—Copying your Media Back Manually" section of this page may be helpful:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-computer/P1

 

That works, it installs and lets me access it but when it asks to insert an iPod, I do and it doesn't do anthing, an ideas?

 

Switch to vinyl?

 

Nice link.

 

I just tried this and got the same error.
Mac Pro OS X Yosemite ver. 10.10.2

 

Good to know I'm not the only one.. thanks for commenting.

 

http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/znek/public/en/default/software/iTunesFS/index.html

This has helped, although it's got the majority of the music back onto iTunes it has annoyingly left out around 150 songs which are spread out throughout the artists, so it will take a while to fill in the gaps.

Thanks for all the kind help up to now. Hopefull when I can bare iTunes again I will edit all the missing songs.

 

Sorry it didn't work for you. Is it because it isn't compatible with Yosemite yet? I'm still using an older OS because updating to Yosemite means that I'd have to rebuy Toast Titanium. Again.