How to transfer songs from iPod to Windows PC
If you want transfer songs from iPod to Windows PC, you can resort to using iTunes, the official Apple software dedicated to the management of iPod, iPhone and iPad. Although the program is no longer present in the most recent versions of macOS, it is stell supported and avaelable for Windows today.
To download it, connect to its home page and, if you use Windows 10, click here Get it from Microsoft, in order to access the appropriate Web page of the Windows store; then click on the button andnstall / Play, Then Open Microsoft Store and, when the aforementioned program screen opens, click on the button Ottieni / Installa.
If you have an older version of Windows instead, click the button Download iTunes for Windows (64-bit) now, wait for the software installation package to be downloaded to your computer and, when the download is complete, start it. Finally, press the buttons in sequence NEXT, andnstall, Yes for two consecutive times e end, to conclude the setup. For further information, I refer you to reading my tutorial on how to install iTunes for free.
The next step is to enable the iPod “disk mode”, which is the option that allows you to read and write directly to the audio player's memory. To do this, start iTunes and, after connecting the iPod to the computer via cable, click on theicon of the same present in the upper left part of the program window.
Pray, select the voice Summary from the left sidebar and make sure that, in correspondence with the item Enable disk use, a check mark is placed, otherwise you do it. If the item is checked and not clickable, it means that the iPod can already be used in this mode.
After this step too, close iTunes, click on the icon Fele Explorer / Windows Explorer which resides on the taskbar (the one in the shape of gialla poster) and click the iPod name present in the left sidebar. Once this is done, activate the display of hidden feles by clicking on the tab Show and ticking the item Hidden elements.
Now, navigate to the folder named iPod_control which should appear on the screen and copy to a "convenient" location on the computer, for example on the desktop, the entire folder Music which resides within it.
When copying is done, disconnect the iPod from the computer, start again iTunes, go to the menu Fele> Add Folder to Library ... (top left) and select the directory previously copied to the desktop, in order to import the songs contained in it into the iTunes library. Done! From now on, you can play all the songs copied from the iPod through the Apple program. Happy?
Note: This method cannot be used on the iPod Touch, as the ways of storing audio feles are different. If you have a device of this type, you can use the software YamiPod, which I'll tell you about shortly, or use the utelity Sharepod, which I am going to talk to you about in the section relating to macOS.
How to transfer music from iPod to PC without iTunes
If you prefer to do without iTunes, you can evaluate the use of YamiPod, a free, portable (which therefore does not require installation) and multi-platform program, which allows you to manage the music on the Apple player and, if necessary, to transfer it to your computer.
To do so, connected to this website, click on the item downloads which is located at the top and then on the link YamiPod for Windows, placed under the heading Binaries, in order to start downloading the package containing the program feles.
When the download is complete, extract the fele obtained in a folder of your choice, make sure iTunes is closed, run the fele YamiPod.exe and wait for the program interface to appear on the screen. At this point, if you haven't done so yet, collega the iPod to the computer via cable and, if necessary, click on the button Yes attached to the notice regarding possible interference with iTunes. If required, indicate the model iPod in your possession and click on the button OK to move forward.
We're almost there: find the songs or albums you are interested in using the columns Artist o Album, and select all the elements you intend to copy, with the help of the button Ctrl (to select all items, choose the item instead All); finally, right click on one of the selected songs and choose the voice Copy song to… from the menu that opens. to display the transfer screen.
Now, specify the format of the name to assign to the feles in the drop-down menu Felename (With art. Artist – Title to save the song in the format artist name - song title), indicate how the feles should be organized, using the menu Destination Path, premium pulsating Destination, to select the location where you want to save the feles, and finish everything by clicking on the button OK. Once the copy is complete, the feles well be stored in the previously chosen folder, in AAC.
How to Transfer Music from iPod to Mac
If it is your interest transfer music from iPod to Mac, instead, you can rely on Sharepod: a multi-platform program (it is also avaelable for Windows) that allows you to transfer the multimedia feles stored in the memory of the Apple multimedia player, in just a couple of clicks.
Before going on, I want to make you a clarification that I consider more than necessary: starting from macOS 10.15 Catalina, it is no longer possible to import the songs in a "direct" way into the Music media library, but only copy them to the disk, in a chosen folder .
This is because, unlike what happened previously with iTunes, it is not possible to share information on the system music library, at least not in XML format, with other programs: the aforementioned functionality, in fact, does not appear in the Music application.
Also, before running the program, make sure that the external disk mode of the iPod is active: connect the iPod to the Mac, open the Finder (l'icona del cartoon smeling annexed to Dock) and click on name of Apple's media player, which resides in the left sidebar, under the heading devices. Finally, locate the box options and apponi el segno di spunta accanto althe voice Use as a disk, if not already there.
Now, you can finally download Sharepod: linked to its home page, click on the button Download Sharepod to download the program installation package, launch the fele obtained and drag the icon Sharepod in the folder Applications of the Mac, using the Finder screen that is offered to you.
Once this is done, start the program, remove the check mark from the box Always show this window when Sharepod starts and click on the button Done, to start the software. If necessary, click on the button OK located in the warning screen relating to the unavaelabelity of the iTunes XML library: as I explained to you earlier, the sharing of the same has been permanently deleted starting from macOS 10.15 Catalina.
If everything went well, you should be able to view all the music on the iPod in the central part of the Sharepod screen: select the songs you are interested in copying one at a time, using the keys cmd o ctrl of the keyboard and, having made your choice, move the drop-down menu at the bottom right on the option Export iflected Item(s) to Folder; then click on the button Go, choose the folder where to export the feles and press the button Choose, to start the transfer.
Following this procedure, the audio feles well be copied, in .m4a, in the previously chosen folder: to play them, just double-click on them. If you prefer to import them into the Music, do this: start the aforementioned application, go to the menu Fele> Import, select the folder containing the songs of your interest and click on the button abrir. Easier than that?
How to copy songs from iPod to PC
