ipod to itunes transfer?

[cgarr]

Can you copy the music from your ipod back to itunes on the computer? if so how?

[Jeff Higgins]

I would be interested to know as well. I have tried everything I can think of, and can't come up with anything. But, then again, my kids will tell you I'm "computer challenged". They can't do it either, though. My unsophisticated, uneducated, conspiracy theory driven guess is that it is somehow blocked, and has something to do with stemming illegal music sharing.

[stomachmonkey]

On a Mac I use iPod Rip. Plenty of similar pieces of SW for Windows also.

[kstar]

If I understand your question correctly, my answer is yes.

You just pick the songs or albums you want to move and drag them to the computer"s iTunes Library.

But, maybe you are trying to get the iPod's music into a different computer (let's call it C2) from the one you typically synch it with?

If this is this question, iTunes will tell you that you will clear all of the music from C2 if you want to add music from your Pod to C2, IIRC.

If this is your question, you need a program like Senuti if you have a Mac.
http://fadingred.org/senuti/

I have never used Windows programs that do the same thing, but here is an example of a program that should help you move songs from your Pod to a different computer:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/product_ipod.htm

Do you need an iPod Manager that gives you more control over your iPod than iTunes? MediaMonkey, unlike iTunes, allows you to synchronize almost any audio format to your iPod via on-the-fly conversion, and lets you to copy the contents of your iPod back to your PC. Download it here--it's free!

Windows savvy folks may have better suggestions than me in this regard - there are many such programs.

FYI.

[DavidI]

I used a program called "ipod2pc" from http://www.casicakes.com/download.html

The trial version allow you to do 50% and the full version does 100%.

David