(Senuti can also automatically add the tracks to your iTunes Library, and even to a particular playlist in your Library, if you’ve enabled these options if not, you’ll need to add them manually later.) Senuti even has a live search filter that works just like the one in iTunes-start to type the name of a track, artist, or album, and the list of tracks will be narrowed down as you type. If you just want to transfer individual tracks from your iPod to your computer, you select them and then click the Copy button (the big arrow pointing down, as in “download”) they’re quickly downloaded to the location you select in Senuti’s preferences dialog. Even worse, if you’ve got a good number of tracks from the iTunes Music Store, getting those back won’t be easy-Apple’s official policy is that you should have backed up. If you can’t do it using your iPod, this means re-ripping all of your music from your CDs (a process that took me several months). For example, if your hard drive suddenly bites the dust and you didn’t have the foresight to back it up, you’ll need to restore your entire Music Library. Wrote last week, it’s quite possible that someone in search of such functionality is just trying to get their own, legal, music back. As my Playlist colleague Christopher Breen The problem is that, like many policies made necessary by the actions of a few bad apples (no pun intended), this design makes it difficult for those who have legitimate reasons to get music off of their iPods. The reasons behind this are understandable: Apple doesn’t want people using iPods as “music mules” to illicitly copy tunes between computers. But you may have also discovered that Apple has made it difficult to get music from your iPod to your Mac. I don’t have a copy ofĭiskWarrior on my MacBook, so I couldn’t try that solution.If you’ve got an iPod, you know how easy it is to get your music onto it and to keep it in sync with your music collection. No go-it felt the disk was fine and needed no repairs. In the short-term, though, I had a big issue-I was headed to WWDC for five days, and would apparently have no music at all to help me through those early-morning sessions ofĪfter checking in and getting the MacBook set up, I first tried Disk Utility on the iPod. I knew that once I returned home, I could wipe the iPod clean and just reload it, losing nothing more than a bit of time.
Looked at with a long-term perspective, this really didn’t bother me much-all of my music is on my home machine and backed up in a couple of spots. Sometimes I heard a few seconds of a song, other times I heard nothing at all.
All the other functions seemed to work fine, but as soon as I tried to play music, the iPod would reboot. Instead of music, I heard my iPod restart-no sound at all, it just instantly rebooted as soon as I chose a song to play.Īfter the reboot, I tried again. The troubles began as soon as I pressed Play.
Unfortunately, the iPod had different plans. While taking the short hop down from my home in Portland to the conference in San Francisco, I pulled out my iPod and headphones, ready to settle back for an hour or so of good music.
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