itunes/IPOD question...crashed computer
 

I lost the hard drive on my Macbook Pro a couple days ago and although alot of the data was backed up, most of the songs I had "acquired" were not. Once I get the computer back (under warranty) and start rebuilding all my files, is there a way to import all my songs from the ipod back into a new itunes on the "new" computer?

Yes, once you set up your old account on the new laptop you will be able to synch the Ipod with Itunes on the new laptop. I think you can synch up to 5 different instances of Itunes with your Ipod using the "share" feature. Don't stress it will be easier than you think....

RB

What year is Your Macbook Pro ?

What HD do you have ?

The problem is if you sync to a new account it will erase your ipod, except for songs purchased from itunes. I've been trying to reload ipod songs on crashed hard drive as well. Got close, but not quite figured out yet.

That's my understanding and the number of songs on here actually purchased from itunes.......zero :)

Bought it Feb 2008....think it's an 80GB HD but don't remember. Standard pre-packaged deal with a few upgrades but not many.
I own a printing company and we have a dozen plus Macs and all the software/hardware you can imagine. I've got "guru's" that handle all the graphics, I'm a typical email, web-surfer, photo and song collector but nothing else. I took the Mac to the shop that sells/services all our shop equipment. When they heard my name the owner came out of a back office and said he'd do everything they could to save my data........turns out its a HD hardware failure, not software. They couldn't collect a thing.

Sorry to hear.... :(

I guess you didn't have Time Machine ?

I had the same issue happen with a windows laptop that died on me. None of my songs were purchased from Itunes and I was able to restore from my Iphone to Itunes. I think I had to setup the Home Sharing to use multiple laptops with the same device. There is a way to get it done and it can't be too difficult if I figured it out. :)

Maybe quit trying to download from the Ipod to Itunes but just check options to update with new/missing files when synching, then manually synch the Ipod to Itunes??

Same thing happened to me a week ago. It sucks losing 25,000 songs and 100s of movies =(

Back up back up back up


Bummer.

It was on the machine....but not in use. Since it's a laptop I never had it plugged in anywhere. (I even have an external HD that is not even being used)

What's really stupid, we lost a HD in a PC years ago and that desktop is set up with an external HD that does a nightly automatic backup.....nothing on the macbook :(

You mean an Apple Broke? No way! :D

First I highly recommend using www.carbonite.com. I use it and it has saved my azz many times. It keeps up to 8 versions of a file so even if you overwrite a file by accident you can still go back and get what you need.

Music Rescue
 

There are a few programs that will copy the information from your Ipod back to your computer. I have used music rescue in the past and it was pretty easy to do.

http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/

Here is some more info on how to go about recovering from your Ipod and they list some other programs you can use.

It helps to attach the link
 

http://ipod.about.com/od/howtos/a/transfer_itunes.htm

Info on how to transfer itunes library

You must be devestated having lost all those Sinead O'connor and Christopher Cross hits.

I do know that you can do it though because Kelli combined my brothers Ipod and Mine at one point a few years ago. I'll ask her when I get a chance....

Load a free small program call "sharepod" onto your computer and say good bye to Apples control of your ipod. You can load music, pics, movies, anything you want using Sharepod. You can take music from other ipods and add your music to others too. It's great

http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/30...-10794489.html

Don't forget Vanilla Ice baby!!!!!.......old man! :lolhit:

There are lots of great ideas already posted.

The only thing I will add, is that when you connect the iPod to the new Mac, it "should" ask you if you'd like to "merge" the songs from the ipod, with the songs in the library. If you choose "no", THEN it will delete all of the songs on the ipod.......so choose "yes", and it should load all of them.

Good luck, and remember to ALWAYS sync your Mac accessories as often as you can.

LMAO....I don't know how to do a "screen print" but the ad at the bottoom of this page is for "touch copy"....software that claims to do exactly what I'm asking.

Touch Copy is good. I use it to help my clueless friends.

When we were broken into and the laptop was sto;en I used sharepod or touch to pull all the music off my Ipod then had to load it to Itunes and all worked well. When I get home tonight I can verify which program I used.

And for future reference (ie:backups)

One of the great things about Macs is they can be cloned, and bootable, easily. You can download a free copy of Carbon Copy Cloner, from Bombich Software. Works very, very well. There are others that cost a nominal fee.

I clone every night. I had a memory chip go bad in a 2003 iMac at home. It did some damage to the HD, because my daughter kept using it. I got a new chip installed, and plugged in the external HD. In the meantime, I could boot from the external drive and use the clone as if it were the original computer. The revert from clone feature basically loads your new HD and you have your old machine back.

You can sorta, kind of use this in the PC world, if running on identical hardware. Some techs can come back from a PC clone, but it never works the same. And you still have the Windows degradation issue to deal with.

Storage is so incredibly cheap now. I have a new 1TB external at home, that cost around $59.