Copying Songs from iPod to iTunes
By ET
I need to copy some songs from my iPod Classic 80GB to the Mac. Many programs fail to work here, for example, ipoddisk, isynctunes, etc (since the iPod is very new).
One software works greatly is called Senuti, I don’t know the meaning of this word, but it does what it was meant to do. One tiny thing to note is that since I have many songs with Chinese titles, they became unrecognizable in iTunes. The solution is simple, in the “preferences” menu, select “Always add songs to iTunes Library” and “Add Songs to Playlist” under “iTunes”.
I guess Apple’s concern about allowing people to copy songs from ipod to itunes is to prevent piracy. It really doesn’t make sense. Suppose my friend has an iPod, and would like to share the songs for me, it is easy to use the iPod itself as a hard drive and copy everything to my machine. The only reason I wanted to copy songs from iPod to iTunes would be
- My computer crashed, or
- I need to copy songs among several computers and still keep the ratings, playlists, etc.
In both cases, Apple’s decision makes it very difficult for the consumers to perform legitimate actions with their own songs.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Figured out what SENUTI means. It is the ITUNES read backwards. Haha.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
maybe just bad luck, iPods are machines, and machines break down. :-p
Check out my tutorial on how to save an ipod from drowning: http://blog.mikezhang.com/2007/09/22/how-i-saved-my-ipod-from-drowning/
Now my wife uses it, and I upgraded to the 80G classic version.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:26 am
I also dislike the copyright system and I had horrible expierence with Apple iPod Video 80G. Notice that after your iPod is broken down (mine is broken down within 1 month, it took forever for the battery to be charged). To make things worse, it is impossible to do data backup without the inside harddisk being extracted, which itself is a very difficult task.
SO, NEVER USE IT AS A DATA-KEEPING HARDDISK. NEVER KEEP IMPORTANT OR SENSITIVE DATA INSIDE.
Be careful about those non-official softwares. I had used one of them and it could be one possible reason that my iPod broke down. I also encountered the problem of partially correct Chinese display.
I did nothing wrong to my iPod. The first day it works well. After staying in a drawer for 1 night it was broken down. Since I got it from our university as a teaching equipment, I returned it to them and they sent it to Apple for repair.