This tips & tricks post (yay!!!) was a request by my friend. I already have made one post about it - but since it was created in 2007, and since we shifted our focus from “you should know this already” to “we will help you anyway we can, with news, etc.”, I’ve decided to rewrite it.

So, this is how you get all your songs off your iPod to your computer. This is for WINDOWS ONLY. The pictures come from Windows Vista, however Windows XP would be the same. You will need the latest version of iTunes, iTunes 7.

STEP ONE:

Open up iTunes and plug in your iPod. If you get that nagging screen that it says you should sync it - SAY NO!!! We don’t want to lose all the data. Now, go down to the options section and make sure that “Enable disk use” is checked.

The reason is that your iPod can be used as an external hard drive - which is obvious. Read More »