How to get music, videos, pictures off iPod to Mac?

You’ve got music, videos, pictures on your iPod that you don’t have on your computer?

Maybe you’ve lost a hard drive or an entire computer, or you’ve accidently deleted just a little too much, and for one reason or another, you don’t have the original source of the music.

Apple is just choosing to spend a lot of time and resources to make it hard to get music, videos, pictures off iPod to Mac. If your mac crash, you lost your itunes liberary. Or you have a new mac, you need to build a new itunes library. At these cases, it is difficulty to get your itunes liberary back. Also, with iTunes, you can not share your music to your friends for one-way sync.

there are also ways or software for Mac users to get music, videos, pictures off iPod to Mac.

Method 1, For all iPod except for the iPod Touch and iPhone

Step 1,
Plug in your iPod and launch iTunes. When it opens, click on your iPod and, in the main window, check the "Enable Disk Mode" box. All iPods except for the iPod Touch can function in "disk mode" as a mass storage devices to store data files.

Step 2,
Launch a terminal window in order to enable hidden folders in the Finder. Go to Applications -> Utilities and double-click "Terminal.app."

Step 3,
Enable hidden files, using the following code: "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUEkillall Finder"

Step 4,
Navigate to Tools-> Folder Options and click on the "View" tab.

Step 5,
Choose the "Show Hidden Files and Folders" option and click "OK."

Step 6,
Look for the "iPod Control" folder and open it. Click on "Music" in that folder. There should be a number of other folders here, named F00, F01, F02 and so forth. These are your music files. They are not organized in any particular fashion within these folders, you'll have to organize them later.

Step 7,
Copy the contents of the folder to your hard drive or whatever other device you choose. You can either select the entire folder or pick and choose through the MP3s. You should be able to see the file names as you mouse over each individual file.

 

If this method does not work for your iPod, go to method 2.

Method 2, Using a Third-Party Application

iPod Touch and iPhone can not function in "disk mode" as a mass storage devices to store data files. So you must use a Third-Party Application to get music, videos, pictures off iPod touch and iPhone to Mac.

Note: Here is a review of several iPod transfer for Mac

Sentinu is the popular iPod transfer which can get music, videos, pictures off iPod to Mac. It was free one year ago. Now it is $18.

Here is a tutorial on how to use Sentinu to get music, videos, pictures off iPod touch to Mac

Floola and YamiPod are free iPod transfers which can transfer music, videos from iPod to Mac. But they do not support iPod touch and iPhone now.