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	~~I will preface this by saying that the purpose of this is '''NOT''' to pirate music!! I '''DO NOT''' condone such behaviour!~~

	I have often wanted to restore my music from my iPod after I have blown away the OS. Yes I know there are a number of very good third party apps that will do this for you. In fact, if you're a Unix newb, by all means use one ([http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/ iRip] is excellent). But if all you want to do is copy all the music off your iPod, onto your Mac, here's how to do it!

	~~1. Plug in your iPod.~~

	~~2. Fire up either the Terminal or X11 apps.~~

	~~3. From the command line, copy all the music off the iPod~~

	~~cp -r /Volumes/My\ iPod/iPod_Control/Music ~/Desktop/~~

	~~Once this is completed, there will be a hidden directory on your Desktop called Music, i.e. you won't be able to see it there! If you do an ls -la on the command line, you'll get:~~

	~~bash-3.2$ ls -la ~/Desktop/~~
	~~total 2167792~~
	~~drwx------@ 10 peter staff 340 Oct 14 11:04 .~~
	~~drwxr-xr-x+ 18 peter staff 612 Oct 14 10:32 ..~~
	~~drwxr-xr-x@ 32 peter staff 1088 Oct 14 11:26 Music~~

	~~The '''@''' at the end of the directory permissions is an extended attribute that is hiding the directory and for that matter all the directories in it.~~

	~~4. On the command line, use the '''xattr''' command to remove the extended attribute '''com.apple.FinderInfo''' recursively.~~

	~~xattr -dr com.apple.FinderInfo Music/~~

	~~Now the Music directory should appear on the Desktop.~~

	~~5. In iTunes, go to the '''File''' menu and choose '''Add to Library...'''. Choose to the Music directory on the Dekstop and click '''Open'''.~~

	~~iTunes will now import all your music from the iPod and organise it for you!~~

	~~6. Clean up! Delete the Music directory and it's contents on your Desktop, as you now have two copies of your music.~~

Ppapa at 02:57, 14 October 2011

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Ppapa at 02:57, 14 October 2011

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Ppapa at 02:56, 14 October 2011

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	iTunes will now import all your music from the iPod and organise it for you!		iTunes will now import all your music from the iPod and organise it for you!

			6. Clean up! Delete the Music directory and it's contents on your Desktop, as you now have two copies of your music.

Ppapa at 02:51, 14 October 2011

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	I will preface this by saying that the purpose of this is '''NOT''' to pirate music!! I '''DO NOT''' condone such behaviour!		I will preface this by saying that the purpose of this is '''NOT''' to pirate music!! I '''DO NOT''' condone such behaviour!

	I have often wanted to ~~copy the~~ music ~~off my iPod on to another computer, for instance my work machine, so I don't always have to have~~ my iPod ~~taking up a valuable USB port, or to restore it~~ after I have blown away the OS. Yes I know there are a number of very good third party apps that will do this for you. In fact, if you're a Unix newb, by all means use one ([http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/ iRip] is excellent). But if all you want to do is copy all the music off your iPod, onto your Mac, here's how to do it!		I have often wanted to restore my music from my iPod after I have blown away the OS. Yes I know there are a number of very good third party apps that will do this for you. In fact, if you're a Unix newb, by all means use one ([http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/ iRip] is excellent). But if all you want to do is copy all the music off your iPod, onto your Mac, here's how to do it!

	1. Plug in your iPod.		1. Plug in your iPod.
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	The '''@''' at the end of the directory permissions is an extended attribute that is hiding the directory and for that matter all the directories in it.		The '''@''' at the end of the directory permissions is an extended attribute that is hiding the directory and for that matter all the directories in it.

			4. On the command line, use the '''xattr''' command to remove the extended attribute '''com.apple.FinderInfo''' recursively.

			xattr -dr com.apple.FinderInfo Music/

			Now the Music directory should appear on the Desktop.

			5. In iTunes, go to the '''File''' menu and choose '''Add to Library...'''. Choose to the Music directory on the Dekstop and click '''Open'''.

			iTunes will now import all your music from the iPod and organise it for you!

Ppapa at 00:29, 14 October 2011

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	Yes I know there are a number of very good third party apps that will do this for you. In fact, if you're a Unix newb, by all means use one ([http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/ iRip] is excellent)		I will preface this by saying that the purpose of this is '''NOT''' to pirate music!! I '''DO NOT''' condone such behaviour!

			I have often wanted to copy the music off my iPod on to another computer, for instance my work machine, so I don't always have to have my iPod taking up a valuable USB port, or to restore it after I have blown away the OS. Yes I know there are a number of very good third party apps that will do this for you. In fact, if you're a Unix newb, by all means use one ([http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/ iRip] is excellent). But if all you want to do is copy all the music off your iPod, onto your Mac, here's how to do it!

			1. Plug in your iPod.

			2. Fire up either the Terminal or X11 apps.

			3. From the command line, copy all the music off the iPod

			cp -r /Volumes/My\ iPod/iPod_Control/Music ~/Desktop/

			Once this is completed, there will be a hidden directory on your Desktop called Music, i.e. you won't be able to see it there! If you do an ls -la on the command line, you'll get:

			bash-3.2$ ls -la ~/Desktop/
			total 2167792
			drwx------@ 10 peter staff 340 Oct 14 11:04 .
			drwxr-xr-x+ 18 peter staff 612 Oct 14 10:32 ..
			-rw-------@ 1 peter staff 6148 Oct 14 10:50 .DS_Store
			drwxr-xr-x@ 32 peter staff 1088 Oct 14 11:26 Music

			The '''@''' at the end of the directory permissions is an extended attribute that is hiding the directory and for that matter all the directories in it.

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