The Sisyphus Comments

Saving Your iPod Music Collection

I love my iPod and I normally have either my third gen or my Shuffle with me most of the time. The one thing I don’t like is the inability to copy songs from the iPod to my computer. I hear horror stories all the time about people losing their music collections when their computer hard drive goes bad. Although they still have the music on their iPod, Apple doesn’t permit them to copy the music back to the computer. Fortunately, the folks at codershole.com have come up with a solution.

You simply install the iDump program on the iPod. Then when you need it, run it directly from the player. You can select the songs you want to copy. You can even specify how they should be named on your hard drive. It works with all iPod models except for the touch and iPhone. The iDump program only works on the Windows Win2k, XP, Me, and Vista platforms.

Another option is to use Senuti (iTunes spelled backwards). It is a simple utility that makes transferring songs from an iPod to your computer a breeze. Senuti reads information from the iTunesDB file on your iPod in order to retrieve the information on all of the songs on your iPod. Senuti only works on the Mac.