I DID IT!!!!!! I got my Ipod music transferred back onto my computer with no loss

:woohoo:

I re-imaged my computer about 3-4 months ago assuming that if all my music was on my ipod I could just transfer it back. And then I found out that wasn't the case. Mind you I have like 10k songs on this thing and some of them I don't have the CDs anymore so if I lose my Ipod I lose alot of music.

My biggest fear was if I put my Ipod on Itunes the sync would start working and erase music. So last night (after a failed attempt with a refurbish that is being returned), I bought a new Nano and used that to turn off my sync. Then I used PoddMaxx to get the music backed up off of my Ipod and transferred into my Itunes

All done

:woohoo:

As for the new Nano, a very dear friend of mine did a major favor for me earlier with a very expensive ticket I bought and ended up not using. She got someone else to use it but I know she lost money on it and everytime I tried to give her something for it she wouldn't take the money. So I'm giving her the Ipod (she's been talking about getting one) as a present. She knows my issue with getting my Ipod songs back onto the computer so she won't be upset that the thing was used by me for about 10 minutes.

:applause: And thanks for the PodMaxx clue - iTunes ate my playlist a couple of weeks ago, and some of my music disappeared as well, stuff that I now only have on my iPod.

there are free shareware programs out there but for the music on my Ipod - well not messing around with shareware

:shrug:

Since it never did that before, I had no qualms about updating the software, but when all was said and done, half my playlists were missing and some of my music as well. For the former, I think iTunes fell back on an older XML file, but for the latter, that's never happened before. I have since updated the software again, and nothing hinky happened. Go fig. :shrug:

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

I keep my computer unsullied by iTunes. :D

I bought the MP3 player before my PC permanently died. Then I bought an iMac. Without researching, stupid me hooked up my MP3 player to the iMac only to have it jam up the MP3 player with crap files. I wound up having to delete all 1900 songs since I could not open any music files any longer. Now all I have is a $160 portable FM radio.