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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!
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| − | 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!
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| − | 1. Plug in your iPod.
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| − | 2. Fire up either the Terminal or X11 apps.
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| − | 3. From the command line, copy all the music off the iPod
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| − | cp -r /Volumes/My\ iPod/iPod_Control/Music ~/Desktop/
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| − | 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:
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| − | bash-3.2$ ls -la ~/Desktop/
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| − | total 2167792
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| − | drwx------@ 10 peter staff 340 Oct 14 11:04 .
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| − | drwxr-xr-x+ 18 peter staff 612 Oct 14 10:32 ..
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| − | drwxr-xr-x@ 32 peter staff 1088 Oct 14 11:26 Music
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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.
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| − | 4. On the command line, use the '''xattr''' command to remove the extended attribute '''com.apple.FinderInfo''' recursively.
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| − | xattr -dr com.apple.FinderInfo Music/
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| − | Now the Music directory should appear on the Desktop.
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| − | 5. In iTunes, go to the '''File''' menu and choose '''Add to Library...'''. Choose to the Music directory on the Dekstop and click '''Open'''.
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| − | iTunes will now import all your music from the iPod and organise it for you!
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| − | 6. Clean up! Delete the Music directory and it's contents on your Desktop, as you now have two copies of your music.
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