suzimc

Yeah, I am sure it is to do with copyright, but they are protecting all that at the expense of allowing their customers to do an awful lot of other things that would be perfectly normal and legal to want to do. Unfortunately I didn't realise the situation and last weekend told my dad to delete everything off my old computer, and only a small amount had been bought from iTunes, the rest was from CD's etc so I think I have a long project ahead of me now!

Big D

You are restricted on what you can do with downloaded music - but you easily share your music with others using Itunes - i can see the music of the guys in my team at work on my pc

suzimc

but most of my music isn't downloaded, it's from my CD's

Longy

Yep, if you have the audio files you can do this, but without them you are a bit screwed.

If you don't want to play the music on your computer I would suggest just turning off the auto update of the Ipod and then any new music updating manually (or there may be an option to not delete files and update automatically - but can't recall). This is all a pain, and long term if you have the CDs it may be worth importing them as if you eventually get a new Ipod or other player you are going to need them.

Also do you update ratings? If you do you may lose them if you import the files again, but have never tried this so who knows.

suzimc

Ahh what a pain...if I knew then what I knew now! I think some of my CD's are in the loft of our house, which has now been rented out, back in the UK!

I've never bothered with ratings, so luckily that is one issue I don't have to spend time on.

Longy

I can't vouch for it working or anything, but did a search and apparantly this will take songs off your Ipod....http://www.ephpod.com/

NeilW

Its not going to help you get all the files off but if there are a couple in partcular that you want then you can use Windows Explorer to search the ipod - the files are separated into loads of folder making it harder to find individual files. To search you need to go into "More advanced options" in explorer and check "Search hidden files and folders". This way you can retrieve a few of your favourites.

Big D

why wont it help you get all your files off? if you can do one you can do them all? might take a bit of time

neil

Your first mistake was jumping on the iPod bandwagon. Your next was not keeping a full backup of all your music files. Having said that I genuinely hope you are able to sort it out.

d4vid

your mistake was jumping on the (insert model of vehicle/electronic good/materialstic posession/anything really) bandwagon

suzimc

I found that earlier too

But it said my iPod wasn't formatted properly or something. I gave up in the end and went shopping!

suzimc

lol

antjen

a really good web site for everything ipod related (including software to rip music off ipods) is www.ipodlounge.com

Tangram

Grrrrr don't knock Apple lol greatest computers ever !!

Seriously, it's dead simple ( although I do have an iMac ) but should be almost as easy on a Windoze machine.

suzimc

I love their products but now I am questioning their policies...this wasn't their smartest move ever....