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