My laptop died a severe death a short while ago. I now have access to a new PC I can use, but can I get the music on the ipod onto the new PC if I can't copy it from the old one?
Some of the CD's got lost in a move, and some I bought on itunes, so I'm not paying again.
I really want to add some more songs, but don't want to risk losing all my music.

So is there a way to do this somehow, as I know with an old Ipod I had, if you put it on another PC it wiped it.
I need to be careful as the PC is not mine though.

Thanks!

ANyone? - Perhaps a suggestion on how to recover the original files. Anything?

I have read other similar threads, but nothing with a simple description on how to solve my issue.

Let me explain. I had a samsung laptop. One day when I went to use it it had a blue screen saying it had failed to initialise, and a countdown. Then it would restart and say the same thing.
It never did start up again, just this message.

So it has my music on it, and much as I made my OH buy an external drive to back his PC up, I never got round to doing my laptop. I'm an idiot.

So I would really like some advice on how I can try to sort this out. Can anyone help. (Or reply just so I don't feel alone in here? I've never known that on DS before, it makes me sad.)

Thank you

This any help ?

http://lifehacker.com/software/ipod/...-pc-105256.php

yup, there are apps.
backup next time

I'll give it a go. Thanks
I assume I install itunes on the new PC first?

This may be of use - http://www.afreecodec.com/ipod-tools/

I haven't followed the links given, but, if you open the ipod from your 'my computer' and then change your settings to 'show hidden files', you can then look in the previously hidden folder and find your songs. The ipod seems to put your songs and album artwork into hundreds of different folders.

warning - DONT just plug it into another computer and start up itunes... because it will wipe everything off the ipod.... (unless you have it on manual transfer - which is the fist thing I do with any ipods)

why the hell anyone would want it on auto syncronisation -or whatever its called, I dont know.

i put in better quality artwork on 554 tracks today. syncing means i didn't have to do anything further for my ipod to get the new artwork. whereas with my manually managed iphone i had delete all the relevant tracks and then copy them over again. it took quite a while. i very much like having my ipod set to sync.

you woudnt need to delete the tracks an re-copy them....

you could just add the artwork directly to the files already on the ipod.

if your computer was to die, or you had to format your hard drive, then as soon as you install itunes and plug the ipod in..... guess what happenes?

Saying that, your ipod could fail, or the hard disk in it might get wiped - so it probably still wise to keep a copy of the files on the PC, and not delete them as I do.

if i don't delete the tracks first, they won't copy over. and of course, i want the artwork to appear on my computer as well as my ipod and phone so there's no point in just updating one of them that isn't the master repository.

i back up my itunes library in case my computer dies!

Thanks for that, it took a bit of fiddling as I'm using Vista and things weren't quite where they were described in the link.

Basically without I tunes installed I plugged in the ipod, allowed hidden files to be seen. Copied the very strangely named folders to the hard drive. removed the ipod.

Installed itunes, then went into the strangely named files, which contained files named strangely as well, 4 letters. Highlighted them all and dragged them into itunes. You have to do the folders one at a time though by going into them, which confused me as previously I've just dragged the whole folder, but this doesn't work. I assume Vista related?

I then plugged the ipod in again it got me to log in to allow it to authorise the ipod and copy my paid for music from it. Then once I was sure all the files were safely in itunes, I allowed it to erase and sync.

It's not in playlists yet, but at least it's safely there, and I'm backing it as we speak!

So thanks again for all the help, I am now a very happy person! I would have lost a total of 623 songs otherwise.