iPod/iTunes Playlist Question

[shelbo]

My wife has been working to put together a playlist for an upcoming party. She’s put a lot of time into it over the past week or so. Last night I accidentally deleted it from iTunes. It still resides on the iPod. I’ve set up the iPod to automatically sync to iTunes, and am afraid to even connect it for fear of losing it from the iPod too. Is there a way to retrieve it from the iPod back to iTunes?

[drachillix]

@shelbo

My wife has been working to put together a playlist for an upcoming party. She’s put a lot of time into it over the past week or so. Last night I accidentally deleted it from iTunes. It still resides on the iPod. I’ve set up the iPod to automatically sync to iTunes, and am afraid to even connect it for fear of losing it from the iPod too. Is there a way to retrieve it from the iPod back to iTunes?

Can you make a subtle change to the playlist on the ipod making it the “newer” copy and synching back into Itunes

[audiobottle]

Before you connect the iPod to the computer, first make sure iTunes isn’t set to auto-sync when the iPod is connected. Otherwise I’m pretty sure you will lose your playlist. How long is this playlist? Can’t you just go through the tracks on the iPod and see what was there and in what order and then make it again in iTunes?
drachillix, sadly, the only play listing you can do on the iPod is by making it an on-the-go playlist, which might work if there aren’t too many songs in the playlist. To do that, just press and hold the center button on each song and it will add it to the on-the-go playlist.

[Nonsuch]

@audiobottle

drachillix, sadly, the only play listing you can do on the iPod is by making it an on-the-go playlist, which might work if there aren’t too many songs in the playlist. To do that, just press and hold the center button on each song and it will add it to the on-the-go playlist.

Just hold down the center button on the playlist title.

[MikeS]

@audiobottle

drachillix, sadly, the only play listing you can do on the iPod is by making it an on-the-go playlist, which might work if there aren’t too many songs in the playlist. To do that, just press and hold the center button on each song and it will add it to the on-the-go playlist.

You can just select the playlist itself on the Playlists menu and press-and-hold the center button until it blinks. That’ll automatically add the entire contents of the selected playlist to the On-the-Go playlist, and I’m pretty sure that those don’t get deleted when you plug the iPod into the computer. To be double-sure, I’d look for an option to “Manually manage music” in iTunes before I plugged the thing in (this option was in the Preferences under iTunes 6, but I suspect that it’s changed under iTunes 7.)

[11811]

@shelbo

My wife has been working to put together a playlist for an upcoming party. She’s put a lot of time into it over the past week or so. Last night I accidentally deleted it from iTunes. It still resides on the iPod. I’ve set up the iPod to automatically sync to iTunes, and am afraid to even connect it for fear of losing it from the iPod too. Is there a way to retrieve it from the iPod back to iTunes?

There are decent shareware programs to let you copy from iPod back to your desktop. Senuti was the one I used for apple computers.

[Waverly]

Clear your current ‘on the go’ playlist. Now add the playlist in question to ‘on the go’. With newer revisions of the firmware, it will show up within itunes now as ‘on the go’ or ‘on the go 1’ ect. when you sync. Even with old firmware, you won’t lose it, because ‘on the go’ will remain on the ipod.

[shelbo]

@Waverly

Clear your current ‘on the go’ playlist. Now add the playlist in question to ‘on the go’. With newer revisions of the firmware, it will show up within itunes now as ‘on the go’ or ‘on the go 1’ ect. when you sync. Even with old firmware, you won’t lose it, because ‘on the go’ will remain on the ipod.

You guys rock. Thanks.