When transfering iPod content to iTunes by oneself, there seems to be some loss of files. What is the best way to do that without such loss? Is special software necessary, if so- what is the best bargain?
What sort of files? Just music? There shouldn’t be any loss, unless some songs were bought using a different account. How are you going about the transfer process?
I dont know if this has changed but historically there was no support for rebuilding itunes from a loaded ipod as a means of preventing music sharing/piracy.
There is software out there that allows this like copytrans
Easy backup and transfer of iPhone, iPad, iPod and iTunes to PCs
You can actually hook the iPod to the computer & open up the iPod file on the computer & copy the iPod’s contents therein, but apparently my friend is having some loss of files when she does that.
Copytrans is one we’ve looked at. We were just wanting suggestions before purchasing.
the problem with doing it that way is that iTunes renames all the files as it places them on the iPod, and if you look you’ll see names like “FQ1Z.mp3” and so forth. You need a program like the aforementioned Copytrans to properly read the ID3 tag information inside the file and rename it accordingly.
Here’s the official documentation:
in the process of doing this as we speak.
I’m going off of this site.
Senuti is the one I’ve used. It worked OK.
The processed used in this webpage will work but there were a fair number of songs where the song/singer information did not copy over and had to be entered by hand.
I believe iTunes will let you transfer music purchased from iTunes from the iPod but any music you ripped from CD yourself or acquired another way requires third party software (or going directly into the file system through windows explorer).
I used third party software to get the contents off my iPod. It was a while ago so I don’t remember what it was called but it did not rename the files - So everything had the weird file name as you describe. There are plenty of third party programs that will read the song title from the ID3 tag and use that to rename the file. (It sounds like copytrans includes that function). iTunes will also use the ID3 tag when you import the track, that is what I did.
SharePod (freeware) has worked well for me.
My friend wants me to rephrase the question-
Is there an ipod to itunes transfer program that will copy everything over but (this is the most important part) WONT DUPLICATE anything in iTunes?
Bumping this question.
Also do any such programs have a way where a customer could actually contact the seller before buying?
I have this need too, now, and there are a million apps that claim to do it. All seem to be “free” for a trial version but to do the full job you need to pay $20-$40. Some seem to be quite old. Can anyone confirm what current product worked well for them? Are there any genuinely free ones?
In case it matters: we have music on an iPod, an iPhone, in random files on the Mac, and in a separate iTunes library on that Mac copied from a previous machine - as well as the actual official iTunes library on that Mac. Goal is to consolidate all music into the Mac’s iTunes library, and eliminate duplicates (either during that process or in a separate one).
This is the kind of thing i see everywhere - it says “free” but also has a “buy” button. This one doesn’t say explicitly but in all the others the ‘free’ version is crippled, it will only do 20 songs or something like that. Nothing on the site seems to say what extra you get when you buy it, do you know?
Not that I’ve found, that would be a separate project AFAICS. TuneUp seems to be one such option, but again I’d like to get personal recommendations from people here.
All the websites I’ve seen have a ‘contact us’ option - you’re not seeing that? For instance SharePod mentioned above has this contact form.
Been a long time since I used it, so thanks for the info. Back when I did use it, the free version was fully functional, but things do change over time (usually in a more expensive and/or less useful direction, but that’s another topic).
The Free Touchcopy worked for me, but would not allow backup, and to get backup, I had to buy the full program for $29.95 – I am not through checking, but it seems to have worked . . .