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Home » Music Download » Transferring Music from iPod® to iTunes®

Transferring Music from iPod® to iTunes®

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If your computer has crashed all of a sudden before you could take a backup of your iTunes library, do not panic yet. There is still a ray of hope that you can recover your lost songs – simply by transferring music from iPod to iTunes. You might have formatted your computer without keeping copies of the music files that you have downloaded and songs that used to refresh you. In such situations, you can, at least, recover and reload the music to the iTunes library from your iPod. All you need to do is to transfer music from iPod to iTunes. Though Apple is good at synching iTunes library to the iPod automatically, users may nevertheless feel the hiccups while transferring music from iPod to computer and stumble in the process.

So, you must browse through the Internet to find easy to follow step-by-step guides on how to transfer music from iPod to iTunes while recovering from an appalling system crash or while moving or copying huge iTunes library to a new PC. Here is one straightforward download of what you should do and, of course what you should not do while showing the process of how to transfer music from iPod to iTunes Library without additional software use.

Quick Steps of Transferring Music from iPod to iTunes

  1. First of all, connect your iPod to the computer.
  2. As soon as you connect the iPod, the iTunes starts synching the data. You need to hit the ‘X’ in the upper top right hand corner of the iTunes window to stop the process.
  3. Go to ‘Control Panel’ and from there, select ‘Portable Media Devices’. When you find your iPod in the list of devices, double-click on it.
  4. From the ‘Tools’ menu, go to ‘Options’. Point to the ‘View’ tab and check ‘Show hidden files and folders’.
  5.  Move to the ‘Music’ folder and select all the music files. Just drag and drop the selected files into the iTunes library. You can also drag and drop these files in the ‘Library’ or any other location of your choice in the hard disk.

Voila! You are done and have successfully completed transferring music from iPod to computer. Now, like transferring music from iPod to iTunes library, transfer videos or photos from iPod to iTunes following the same steps, except diverting them to their respective files.

By Trishna


Trishna is a tech blogger and writer, constantly diving deep in the technology world. She enjoys writing on the different shades of tech – whether it is gadgets, apps, software or devices. When she is not writing or excavating technological findings throughout the internet, she is busy checking the latest apps and gadgets for herself…

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