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I am a big Fan of the iPod, but I do not like Apple has not been very forthcoming on how the mobile music from the iPod back to personal computers. They fast enough, to tell you how to move music from your PC to your iPod But when you want to do just the opposite, apples, clams up tension.

Their reasoning may be the only reason you have to consider your music iPod is a well-off and copy it illegally distributed. However, it is an insult to the music buyer. There are many legitimate reasons why you would want to move your music from the iPod back to personal computers. The very beginning, if your hard drive crashed, the only copy music on your iPod? Or you accidentally delete a song from your hard drive and you want to come back without having to buy another copy ?

It has taken my age, how to make music a well-off and the iPod to your computer, but I finally. This is what to do in a Windows PC. Because I do not have a Mac, I can not help.

A simple five-step guide to moving your music from your iPod to your PC

1. In Windows Explorer, go to Tools "> Folder Options"> view. In the Advanced Settings list, hidden files and folders, check the radio button, "Show hidden files and folders." And then click OK. You will get a Windows security warning, but it's safe enough to ignore it as we can disable this feature, but in the short term.

2. Plug in your iPod. In Windows Explorer , a folder will now appear in the name of your iPod.

Double-click on this point. To subfolders "iPod_Control", then "music." You will find that your music is randomly scattered in various folders, and competing with the file name. But do not worry, ID3 tag remains fully complete and we are now to "interpret" the file.

3. But first, copy all the music of the iPod, from these folders to a new folder on your hard drive. All of the songs moved to a single folder, and give up all the folders your iPod. To the end of last year, you should have a folder on your hard drive with all the rush to file together.

4. Open iTunes and do the following: to "edit> preferences. According to the High tab, under the general's" sub-tab "and select the folder where the local copy music from your iPod (click to change?? ).

Check the box of "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" and click OK. Please also make sure you have eliminated all the previous music from iTunes, so that their player list is empty.

5. In iTunes, click "file" and then "add folder to the library." Select a folder where you copied all the music. iTunes will now re-import all of your music back to the playlist. But more importantly, because before you click on the "keep iTunes Music folder organized", iTunes will now start to rename, and organize your favorite song into their correct name, photo albums and folders. This may take some time, depending on how many songs you have in your iTunes library.

There you have. OH and do not forget to go back to Windows Explorer, Tools "> Folder Options"> view. Reverse what, you do so, the hidden files remain hidden once. You may also wish to Germany - choose "to maintain the iTunes Music folder organized" If you do not normally use this option.

You may also wish to take this opportunity (to do more than before), the eradication of your iPod, and restore it back to the factory settings. lifehacker also recommended that defragging your iPod (though I think this is a potential flooding problem). Then, just use iTunes mobile music from your PC back to your iPod.

To restore factory settings is good for the crap out of any that have been established within the iPod and make it run faster. After all, iPod is basically a hard drive and PC hard drives like, iPod can do a clearance once in a while to give it back to speed.

Do you have the iPod tricks to share with others? ? Tells us that in the comments!

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