Help with iTunes

Jane2005

I had all my CDs uploaded to iTunes but I had to reset my laptop back to factory setting due to a virus. Does anyone know if that means I have lost all my music or is there some way to 'sign in' to iTunes? I didn't buy any of the songs from iTunes. I don't want to chance losing all the songs from my iPod. Any ideas????

custardy

no itunes wont store your ripped music
i assume you still have the CD's though?
do you have an ipod? If so theres ways of getting the music off that

Jane2005

Thanks Custardy. Yeah I have still got all the CDs, so that's an option, but also I have still got all the albums on my iPod, any ideas on how to get them all back into iTunes?

custardy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_iPod_managers

most are covered here
you can see what ipods they cover,features etc
just use a free one

Sharon87

I remember trying to get music off my ipod a few years back. iTunes wouldn't let me, so I went into the files (they were hidden files, so had to make them visible first), then transferred them all onto computer. But the track names were something stupid like KPMN - 4 letters. But when loaded on itunes still had all the details on them.

mollypoppy

Jane2005 wrote: »

I had all my CDs uploaded to iTunes but I had to reset my laptop back to factory setting due to a virus. Does anyone know if that means I have lost all my music or is there some way to 'sign in' to iTunes? I didn't buy any of the songs from iTunes. I don't want to chance losing all the songs from my iPod. Any ideas????

tracks from ip

I feel for you. I dropped my laptop wrecked hard drive cant get access to tracks from ipod.

Any advice for best free program for ipod shuffle. :beer:

alisong1

Yes, you probably lost all your music. Next time you need to reset your laptop, back up your files on a hard drive.
If you want to transfer your songs from your iPod to your iTunes on your laptop, use PodWorks. it's £3.82, but it works really well: http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=2482. Good luck!

brainwaster

This works too if you have a pc and not a mac

http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php

There is also a mac version

barmonkey

i use this, really easy to use

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_video/ipod_tools/idump.cfm

and its free

super_woman

thanks for the links

rustyboy21

I dont have an Ipod, but have an archos mp3 player.

I bought a laptop recently and decided that I wanted to transfer my music from media player onto the laptop.

I was going to load all the music on memorysticks and load bit by bit. Then I thought that if I plugged in my mp3 into the laptop would it do it for me.

Windows media came up with '' do you wish to sync archos with media player?'' I pressed yes and it automatically did it for me, took about 2 hours as I have 15gb of music on my mp3 player.

Hopefully you may be able to do that with your ipod, don't know whether you have tried it