iPod to Mac song transfer

K1LLSW1TCH · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:03

Hello, I've got a little problem. I formatted my MacBook the other day and now my iTunes library is only on my iPod Nano. I'd like to get it from my Nano and onto my MacBook but I seem to be a bit stuck. Previously I've just downloaded YamiPod, which I tried just now and had some sort of error telling me the firmware version of my iPod is unsupported in YamiPod. So I tried Senuti and that's no good either, it only allows a certain amount of songs to be transferred before you have to pay for the full version which I'm unwilling to do. I then tried another program called pod to mac which only allowed 10 files to be copied over until it asked me to pay for the full version.

I then just did a bit of Googling and came across a piece of information about iTunes. Apparently since version 7 you've been able to copy your iPod songs over into iTunes, but only as long as the songs were purchased through iTunes, which they haven't been, they've all came from CD's.

So now I'm stuck and need a free way to get my songs from my iPod onto my MacBook. Before I had a Mac I would just plug my iPod into my PC, enable hidden files and folders, browse the iPod and then drag all the hidden folders which contained my songs across and into iTunes. I can't find any way to do this on the Mac so if anyone can point me in the right direction I'll be very appreciative.

Cheers.

knowledge123 · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:24

I've been in this situation before, and I used Senuti, it has a 30 day/1000 transfers limit, though

K1LLSW1TCH · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:32

I'll try Senuti again then. I thought it had a lower limit than that and if it works then that's great as I only have 770 songs on my iPod anyway.

I'll try it, cheers.

knowledge123 · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:37

Cool, let me know how it goes. I did find it easy to use and, like you, I had less then 1000 songs to transfer.

K1LLSW1TCH · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:41

knowledge123 said:
Cool, let me know how it goes. I did find it easy to use and, like you, I had less the 1000 songs to transfer.

It's working!

Thank you very much and have a cookie.

knowledge123 · 15 Mar 2010 at 20:06

Wo wo wo! You are most welcome

*grabs cookie and runs*

MagicBoy · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:03

knowledge123 said:
I've been in this situation before, and I used Senuti, it has a 30 day/1000 transfers limit, though

I used this when I got my first Mac to transfer my iTunes library across with playlists/ratings etc intact. Works well but I don't think it had a limit when I used it.

K1LLSW1TCH · 16 Mar 2010 at 09:31

Ahh lucky you! It now has a 1000 limit on the free version but fortunately I only had 770 songs so it worked perfectly. I'm sure it could be reinstalled to allow another trial though.

And · 16 Mar 2010 at 11:02

If you also have a PC try (the poorly-named) iDump.

cheers
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