Thursday 30 October 2014

transfering music from ipod to itunes on OS X

So you have your music on you iPod and now you want to transfer it to another iTunes library for free?

Solution:

  1. Download iExplorer
  2. Load it up and right click and "mount" iPod
  3. load up terminal and type:
    1. defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles YES
  4. go to the apple at top left > Force Quit ...
  5. Click on finder and "Relaunch"
  6. Load up a new Finder window, go to the iPod > iPod_Control > Music
  7. Copy the Music Folder to your desktop
  8. load up "Terminal" again and type:
    1. chflag nohidden ~/Desktop/Music
    2. chflag nohidden ~/Desktop/Music/*
  9. Now you can load up iTunes and copy the music folder onto it
  10.  Sorted!
  11. Oh, you probably want to not show hidden files anymore so type:
    1.  defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles NO
Cheers

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