Transferring music from an iPod to an iTunes library has been a desire for many people, even though they may have previously downloaded music from the iTunes store or personal cds to their iPod. Though Apple should have expected this to be a valuable characteristic, it determined that iTunes should not assist in allowing this to happen.

Some people suspect that Apple took these steps to protect music from being illegally traded. But what about people who wan to transfer their own music between their own computers using their iPod and iTunes? This isn’t wrong or illegal!

You also might want need to transfer your iPod music to your own laptop or computer at work.

Sadly, iTunes on your new computer has been set to instinctively replace your current iTunes library. These settings will wipe out the library on your iPod, along with any music you have stored on it, and use the new, empty iTunes library. Yeesh!!!

However, many people quickly learned how to get around this difficult issue. It unfortunately that meant deciding ‘no’ when presented with the option of automatically syncing your iPod and iTunes library.

The next step would be removing particular files from the iTunes folder within your computer, revealing your hidden files, moving the file “iPod Control folder” along with your iPod music to another place for protection, and finally generating a new iPod Control folder. There were additional steps involved, but I think you understand.

Third-party software designers created programs that did all of this for you and allowed the user to skip past the overcomplicated techniques that were being used to avoid losing music.

Three programs that were created to aid you in easily transferring your iPod music to your iTunes library are iPod 2 iTunes, PodMaxx, and Tune Tools.

With these programs you are able to easily copy songs, videos, and playlists from your iPod to iTunes for a moderate. Each program comes with features that would have been helpful on iTunes, and they are all very easy to use. Considering what price you would pay if you lost your complete iPod libary, they are very affordable as they cost between $20 and $30.

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