Apple Uploading songs from Ipod?

My partner bought herself an iPod recently (mentioned in this thread), but it's completely full. There are some cool songs on it but iTunes doesn't have any features (that I can see) to upload these songs to our computer.

Now as far as I'm concerned we own this music. We (she) purchased the device that this music is on. It's the same as buying a CD from the store IMO. Is there any way to move these songs onto my computer so we can change the music but be able to change them back later when we want to?

 

While the legality of such an enterprise is dubious at best
This might do the trick.

 

Yeah copypod is a good programm!

As for the legal ishue(sp?) i dont think you own the music on the Ipod as you only purchased the medium the music is on, as in you bought a copied cd. You own the medium but not the content.

 

If you're on a Mac, Senuti.

If you're on Windows... it's easy enough. Just set hidden files to being shown, open the iPod's drive in Explorer. One of the folders (ipod_control?) has a ton of F00-F## folders inside it, all hidden, each holds a few of the tracks. Renamed to something stupid. Just copy them off the iPod, re-import into iTunes with the 'keep music organized' box ticked, and it fixes all of the naming by the tags and whatnot.

Winamp has a plugin, and there are a number of other pieces of software, but I wouldn't bother. My way's easier tbh.

Of course, I think this is a legal grey area at best, but I'm just going to assume that you own a copy of all of the CDs or paid in some form another for the content. (btw, if it's DRM'd, you're screwed)

 

indeed you bought the nano, not the music... especially if any of the music was purchased through the iTunes (Music) Store, programs like copypod are allowed to exist for the extremely rare occurence that a computer fails and the owner has not backed up their music (which iTunes reminds you to do every 10th purchase from the store or so), so that they might retrieve some or all of their lost data...

otherwise its a very gray area of legality for situations you outline and are attempting to do

 

also, if you're using a mac, you can do it for free, sans program using some command line jiggery boo

cd /Volumes/<iPod Name>
find . -type f -name "*" -print | wc -l
(outputs #)
mkdir ~/Desktop/Import
find . -type f -name "*" -print | xargs -n 1 -I {} cp "{}" ~/Desktop/Import/

basically that # is the number of items (songs configs etc) on the ipod... this will effectively copy everything off the iPod into said directory on the desktop... at which point you can sort through to get just the songs, import into iTunes and let it organize itself