Roy:

That exactly right.  I have the music on the IPOD and I want it to be 
downloaded back to the Windows based PC. ???

Olav.


Roy Brown wrote:

> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Wirt 
> Atmar <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>> Olav asks:
>>
>>> I have a nano (3rd gen) full of tunes.  I would like to upload more
>>> songs and download the previous tunes.  Is there a good free PC program
>>> that will do it ?
>>
>>
>> While I don't have an iPod nano, I do have video and non-video standard
>> iPods, an iPhone and a couple of iPod shuffles, and I presume that it 
>> doesn't
>> work any differently. I do exactly what you want to do using iTunes 
>> (on either
>> a PC or Mac).
>>
>> To create specific repositories of songs, build different "on-the-go" 
>> playlists
>> from your library of tunes and upload whichever playlist you feel 
>> like that
>> day/week. When you grow tired of that list, upload a different playlist.
>>
>> You can also do this manually using the manual sync function of 
>> iTunes, but if
>> you have a large number of songs, it will be tedious.
>>
>> Wirt Atmar
>
>
> All you guys are missing the point that he wants to get the tunes off 
> his iPod.
>
> iTunes won't do that, except for purchased tunes you load directly on 
> the iPod from the iTunes Store.
>
> Sometimes, people find themselves with a hosed PC where the PC was 
> holding the iTunes library. They still have the tunes on their iPod, 
> but no way to return them to the mothership :-(
>
> But there are PC programs that will do this; I can't recommend any 
> specific one, as I've never used any of them.
>
> What I *can* tell you, though, is that if you get your iPod into an 
> unrecoverable state, where even the iTunes reset/repair won't work - 
> usually through a failed firmware update - then the official advice is 
> that is has to go back to Apple.
>
> But my unofficial advice is that if you can still connect it to your 
> PC, treat it as a disk drive and reformat it. Quick format is OK, and 
> indeed is the only format option that will work within a sensible 
> timescale.
>
> After that, you can give the device to the iTunes reset/repair, and it 
> will put the whole thing back straight for you.
>
> Advice exists on the net for rebuilding the empty file structure on 
> your iPod, from Unix. I'm sure it's correct, but it makes you head spin.
>
> And the reset/repair does this anyway, easily, and is guaranteed to 
> get it right.
>

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