thank you so much for this video. Once I saw what you mentioned about clicking the hidden files thing, the folders showed up and everything copied to my PC :) Labeling this stuff and organizing it will take some time, but my overall goal is to put this on a USB device because my car does not like to read my old Ipods anymore but it loves to read USB devices with music on files. So this will be a way to be able to keep playing it in my car. I know a lot of the young kids use Spotify but screw paying money for a subscription and even more so, screw listening to advertisements lol
Something you can do for Mac (and Linux if you're able to use that) is use the 'cp' (copy) command `cd /Volumes/` `ls` (Look for your iPod's name) `cp [iPod name]/iPod_Control/Music/ ~/Desktop` Saves the time of copy-pasting constantly
then flatten the directory with something like: md ~/Desktop/Ipod_Music find ~/Desktop 2 -type f -exec mv -i '{}' ~/Desktop/Ipod_Music/ ';' In windows, just use the search bar for '*.*' and move all the files it finds into your destination directory
Worked on Windows 11. Made a folder on my Desktop, dragged them. Too a few minutes to transfer. Unplugged Ipod, all seems fine. Made a playlist of Media player and all still play. Thanks a lot, I was close to spending $20 on a program.
I like the video, just a shame that my PC/Mac won't even let my 4th gen show up at all. Just results in an error on my PC and absolutely nothing on my Mac. It was the cable :)
Question i have a windows formatted ipod and am turning a old mac into a music station/ipod restorer. When i put the songs into iTunes they stay the four letter names. Is the a way to do this better?😊
I have my ipod from two computers back that was a mac, but it went down and the back up was corrupted, so I wanted to use this technique to recover my music, but I don't have access to a mac now and the ipod is formatted for mac, and the windows program on my surface says it must be formatted...but that means it will delete all of my files. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I think in this situation you should consider simply getting a cheep mac from a few years ago (that would be the easiest option), but if you are technically inclined you could try running a Virtual Mashing of mac os on your computer (though that will depend on how powerful your current pc is, and VMs can be difficult to set up), but if you don't want to do either of them you could find a place that has mac computers for public use like a library (this will depend on what security settings they have enabled so use at your own risk)
how do I rehide the folders after I am done with this process, I have successfully transfered my music from my old iPod but now I see ALL the hidden folders in EVERY drive because of the terminal thing. how do I re hide those/undo the terminal thing? thank you!
actually I figured it out, just replace the word "true" with "false" in that same line of command for terminal, then enter the same killall Finder and boom they hide themselves again! THANK YOU
Great video but I think I am stuck I got 22,000 songs but my 2015 macbook pro don't have enough storage space. No app on my mac only got 100.21 GB left. Ipod has 119.83 GB won't let me download music. Any Idea what to do. Just brought Mac new to this
