Dollymarie Posted September 4, 2018 Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 Right, I’ve got two iPods. One I use in the car and out and about, and is all legally purchased music from iTunes. The other is an old one with not entirely legally purchased music that has been sat in a drawer. It was backed up onto a laptop I no longer own. I want to put all my music on one iPod/laptop. If I plug my old iPod into my laptop will it be able to just transfer all the music into my iTunes library without wiping either iPod and thus meaning I can then put the music from the old iPod onto the new one without any issues, so I therefore just have all my music in one place/on one iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chowie Posted September 4, 2018 Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 I had a similar dilemma to this many years ago, I’m sure I had to buy some software to get the music off the 1st iPod and onto the PC. Sorry not much help, but back then it was only option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septic Peg Posted September 4, 2018 Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 You will probably have to move/copy all the files on iTunes currently to your main pc drive or put them on a USB stick, effectively wiping the iTunes (personally I'd go for the USB stick and test it before you wipe iTunes.) Then upload the old iPod contents, remove the old iPod from iTunes and then add the USB stick contents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 4, 2018 Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 You can tick a box saying "Prevent Ipods from Syncing Automatcally" (edit>>.preferences>>devices). Do this. Restart iTunes. Connect your old iPod. Resist any dialog from iTunes wanting to sync with it. Find said old iPod in your My Computer (or This PC) folder and copy its music files to your My Music folder. Disconnect old iPod. Import the stuff you want to iTunes via add file (or import the lot via add folder). The files may lose their names in doing this, but it's easy enough to re-add them and if you're not sure on anything, use Shazam or similar to find the music's name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 On 04/09/2018 at 22:39, Red-Robbo said: You can tick a box saying "Prevent Ipods from Syncing Automatcally" (edit>>.preferences>>devices). Do this. Restart iTunes. Connect your old iPod. Resist any dialog from iTunes wanting to sync with it. Find said old iPod in your My Computer (or This PC) folder and copy its music files to your My Music folder. Disconnect old iPod. Import the stuff you want to iTunes via add file (or import the lot via add folder). The files may lose their names in doing this, but it's easy enough to re-add them and if you're not sure on anything, use Shazam or similar to find the music's name. Finally got round to trying to do this. It’s not working! It says it’s copying the files but then when I click on the folder there are only like 3 there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Dollymarie said: Finally got round to trying to do this. It’s not working! It says it’s copying the files but then when I click on the folder there are only like 3 there Has it 100% finished importing the files? (the pic says 3%) It is a slow process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 11 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said: Has it 100% finished importing the files? (the pic says 3%) It is a slow process. Yeah I’ve done that twice now and the second pic was when it had finished and what it gave me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, Dollymarie said: Yeah I’ve done that twice now and the second pic was when it had finished and what it gave me There is the nasty prospect that the old iPod might have a corrupted hard drive. This happened with an old one of mine, it played fine, but when i tried to sync it was very, very slow and just didn't take all the files. Do you have another device you can run iTunes on? An old laptop or an iPad or similar. You could try syncing the old iPod with that and then copying the iTunes media file onto a memory stick - maybe a bit at a time - and transfering the files to your main laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 I’ve got foster sons iPad that only has a few songs on it. Don’t have an old laptop though. But then I don’t have a way of getting any songs off the other iPad onto my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 9 minutes ago, Dollymarie said: I’ve got foster sons iPad that only has a few songs on it. Don’t have an old laptop though. But then I don’t have a way of getting any songs off the other iPad onto my laptop. No USB port? You can get a 64gb memory stick for £15 these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Red-Robbo said: No USB port? You can get a 64gb memory stick for £15 these days. iPads don’t have a USB port though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Dollymarie said: iPads don’t have a USB port though. Typical Apple nonsense. Why the only Apple product I have is the iPod Classic which is, as the name suggests, a classic. I'll have another think after the match.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 3 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said: Typical Apple nonsense. Why the only Apple product I have is the iPod Classic which is, as the name suggests, a classic. I'll have another think after the match.... Thank you, I do appreciate this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Dollymarie said: Thank you, I do appreciate this You're welcome. I believe they do make a Lightning port to USB cable, if your iPad has that sort of connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyhutchscurlymullet Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 On 04/09/2018 at 18:06, Dollymarie said: Right, I’ve got two iPods. One I use in the car and out and about, and is all legally purchased music from iTunes. The other is an old one with not entirely legally purchased music that has been sat in a drawer. It was backed up onto a laptop I no longer own. I want to put all my music on one iPod/laptop. If I plug my old iPod into my laptop will it be able to just transfer all the music into my iTunes library without wiping either iPod and thus meaning I can then put the music from the old iPod onto the new one without any issues, so I therefore just have all my music in one place/on one iPod. Being quite the technophobe myself, I too needed to do something similar a while back. After searching various tech/apple forums etc, it confused the hell outta me! Then i found the solution....theres plenty of YouTube videos that will give you step-by-step guides that help (just need to translate some Americanisms). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted September 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Can you point me in the direction of the ones you used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamalagerdrinker Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 There was a program years ago called iDump that would take all your music from you iPod and save it as MP3 files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 On 18/09/2018 at 19:49, Red-Robbo said: Typical Apple nonsense. Why the only Apple product I have is the iPod Classic which is, as the name suggests, a classic. I'll have another think after the match.... My iRon doesn't have a USB port either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 3 hours ago, iamalagerdrinker said: There was a program years ago called iDump that would take all your music from you iPod and save it as MP3 files iDump gave me the shits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Cables. Got to use proper Apple cables. No idea what the problem was with my classic/new iPod but using Apple cables sorted it for me after hours of frustration. You're welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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