How to recover lost music tracks on ipod

onejontwo

Would any of you ipod experts out there know how to recover music tracks from your ipod?
We had the ipod software installed and songs on the ipod but the computer broke and we lost everything (including all of the music) so we had to reinstall the software. So now we have put new songs onto the ipod but the old songs have disappeared from the ipod. Is there any way to get them back?

handful

I'm no expert but the way I understand it is you copy all of your music (or download) to itunes on your computer and when you plug the ipod in it synchronises or in other words copies it all from itunes to the ipod so if the ipod loses everything or you change ipods it just updates everything from your itunes.

In your case, if you lost everything on the computer, the first time you connected, the ipod would have synchronised with what you had on itunes....which was nothing, hence wiping everything on the ipod. I believe there is software available to copy from ipod to itunes but as you have wiped the ipod already, I believe you are now 'stuffed'. Sorry about that, very frustrating I'm sure.:(

MrsBartolozzi

We are having a related problem, but in my (admittedly limited) experience of this, if you install Itunes on your PC and sign in to your Itunes account (the one that's licensed to your ipod) you can then download everything you originally bought again for free. This has been the case for us, but maybe to make sure, download something cheap first? When you go to download, click "buy" I think twice, then only after this does it say you already own this do you want to download again? (or words to that effect).

Good luck, I am sure you will get everything back one way or another, as this is one of the benefits of Itunes - that your purchases are protected even if your pc is stolen etc.

The_Grandmaster

So is your ipod filled to the brink with new music from your new itunes?

If the ipod still has some space remaining, you maybe able to run recuva which might 'save' some music files still not written over:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

When the music from your old pc was on your ipod, you should have connected the ipod while the preferences in itunes was open, then through my computer, enabling to see hidden files, copied all the music from your ipod into your computer.

googler

onejontwo wrote: »

Would any of you ipod experts out there know how to recover music tracks from your ipod?
We had the ipod software installed and songs on the ipod but the computer broke and we lost everything (including all of the music) so we had to reinstall the software. So now we have put new songs onto the ipod but the old songs have disappeared from the ipod. Is there any way to get them back?

There 'should' have been a warning when you synched to the new library - something along the lines of 'this iPod is synched with another iTunes library - synching to this library will erase all content on the iPod. Are you SURE you want to continue?'

If you ignored this, and continued to synch it, then I'm afraid you only have yourself to blame.

Where did the music on the iPod come from? If it was all imported from music files, or ripped from CD, and you still have the source, then you can just re-load it from source.