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Problems transferring music from iPod to Mac

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Q: I read your tutorial on Copying Content from your iPod to your computer, and followed the steps to manually load my songs from my iPod nano onto my Mac mini and it didn’t work. I put in the command scripts onto terminal as requested and was able to see the iPod_control folder and the music folder when browsing through my iPod, but when I went to iTunes and chose the “Add to Library” that folder wasn’t visible. I tried copying the music folder out of iPod_control, but it still remained invisible to iTunes. Have others noticed this problem? Is it because I have a Mac Mini? Is it the newest version of iTunes that is stopping this??

- Sarah

A: There is a problem in more recent versions of iTunes that despite the preferences to show hidden files within Finder itself, these folders will not always appear visible to other applications such as iTunes. In some cases, shutting down and restarting iTunes after adjusting the Finder preferences resolves this, but not always.

Copying the content of the “Music” folder back to your computer and importing it from there is normally sufficient, but there’s a much faster way: With the ipod_control folder open in Finder, simply drag and drop the content of the “Music” folder from the Finder window onto the iTunes window. This produces the same effect as the “Add to Library” menu option, resulting in all of the selected files in that folder and all sub-folders being imported into your iTunes library. Just make sure that you have the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library option enabled and your iTunes Music folder set correct before doing this, as explained in the tutorial, to ensure that all of the imported files get copied back to your computer.

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Comments

1

Why don’t my desktop pc recognizie my shuffle ipod

Posted by michelle on June 7, 2008 at 6:51 AM (PST)

2

i am recently gonna buy an i-pod clssic(80 Gb one).and i was very much confused with its functions, i want to know whether i could create different playlists according to my mood(like happy,sad,party..etc) in the i-pod.and can i directly add the songs in mp3 format from my windows XP Pc to the i-pod or do i have to convert?

Posted by SIDH on June 9, 2008 at 6:08 AM (PST)

3

For windows users, Free Download Manager can pull videos from youTube (and others) and automatically convert them.

Posted by Brian on June 9, 2008 at 6:57 AM (PST)

4

I’m having an issue with my ipod touch. Every time i power down, it turn on by itself after 10 seconds or so. It seems like the ipod started doing this after i upgraded to 1.1.4. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. if so, any solutions?

Posted by An on June 9, 2008 at 8:02 AM (PST)

5

I have been getting this error message since I started using vista.

The iPod “Firstname Lastname’s iPod”
cannot be synced. You do not have
enough access privileges for this
operation.

and there is no further progress in the sync and there is plenty of data on the iPod.

Help! What can I do to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance.
-Cindy

Posted by Cindy on June 11, 2008 at 4:54 PM (PST)

6

I am after some feedback on FM transmitters for playing music from ipod on the car stereo. My car (a station wagon) has the antenna in the rear window. Which transmitter works the best with in-winow antenna?

Posted by GLUKE on June 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM (PST)

7

RE: YouTube Videos on your iPod -
It is also worth checking out the YouTube Video Podcasts which highlight the best videos around and can be downloaded for iPod viewing.

Posted by Ben Shakespeare on June 23, 2008 at 11:10 PM (PST)

8

Floola (http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/) will also allow you to download YouTube videos.

VictorE

Posted by VictorE on June 26, 2008 at 10:15 PM (PST)

9

How do I register a new ipod that i bought and load music on to the new ipod?

Posted by Lee Taylor on August 24, 2008 at 12:41 PM (PST)

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