Uploading Songs from an iPod

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I bought a second-hand iPod today and have installed iTunes and begun to upload CDs. However, if I copy the library onto the iPod then I will lose all the albums that are already on it.

1. Can anyone direct me to some freeware that will allow my PC to recognise the music files on the iPod and upload them?

2. Also can someone instruct me how to rename my iPod - it's currently appearing under the last owner's name.

I'm new (and late) to this game and any informtion would be gratefully received.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Check out ipodlounge.com They have links for EVERYTHING, and is a pretty objective site. Very well run, and pretty comprehensive. This was treated very recently, I thinks.

Welcome to the Pod collective. We've been expecting you.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I appreciate ipodlounge, and post there as well (same handle). The factual resources are first-rate, and a few of the mods (honeybee) are fantastically knowledgeable and extraordinarily generous in handing out guidance.

Their FAQ not only addresses this question but will link you to the software you need to do the job.

BTW, they've now changed their name and URL to ilounge.com - because, y'know, the world is bigger than ipod - there's also ipod mini, and ipod color, and ipod shuffle... (their editorial parochialism is often good for a chuckle)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Thanks so much for your posts - I'm about to download the £10 software as I downloaded the free stuff and couldn't get it to open once it was saved.

I couldn't locate instruction on how to change the name of the iPod as recognised in iTunes...

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure this is one of the first things you tried, but click on the iPod on the left pane of iTunes, like you would a file to be renamed, and see if the name becomes editable text?

There's an iPod tab in the options which only appears when an iPod is attached, as well, maybe there.

My iPod's being fixed, which is why I can't actually test these brilliant ideas myself.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

if you wanna extract mp3s from an ipod, yr best bets for pc are prob ephpod, xplay and anapod manager. for mac, there's podworks, el ipodo, ipod manager (i think that's what its called) and ilinkpod (the last isnt very good)

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure this is one of the first things you tried, but click on the iPod on the left pane of iTunes, like you would a file to be renamed, and see if the name becomes editable text?

This certainly works in the mac version of iTunes. You need to do that slow double-click for it to work.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Don't bother with that. Podworks is free, and works so beautifully on the Mac:

http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

In iTunes I believe you can just, like, rename your iPod like you would rename any playlist.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Lara doesn't have a mac, Paul.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

You can extract the MP3s directly yourself by browsing the iPod with 'view hidden & system files' turned on, although they're not in a useful order. (At least this works on the computer I am currently forced to use - a seven-year-old piece of junk running Windows 98.)

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget to enable the iPod for disk use first.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

(I have downloaded some podcasts!)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

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