I keep losing iPod home directories when I format a PC Laptop. So family members are forever redoing their iPods because I had not taken time it takes to hack into an iPod. Don't tell my daughter who re-ripped her collection over three days - that I could have pulled off all her music.
Today I faced yet another family iPod with some music and a XP iTunes install that was totally formatted. I decided to give it a try again. It seemed so hard the other times I googled things - but this time was different. First I did this search:
Google://restoring music from an ipod
The first link was here from like three years ago:
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
It led me to this software:
http://www.ilinkpod.com/
This rocks - it mounts the music - you can just copy it back on to your main system. The key is that he file names are four character things like BLMX.MP4 - don't worry abut this - just drag them back into iTunes and there is enough metadata to reconstruct the artist, etc.
Sweet - I need to send the ilinkpod dude some cash.
Posted by csev at June 4, 2008 08:47 PM