Fun iPod Tricks
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Tip 5 -- Locating and Copying Music Out of your iPod
Once your songs are copied to your iPod, how do you copy them out? To prevent the theft of music, Apple has hidden the music files on your iPod. But are they really hidden? Well, they are simply hidden by turning the "invisible" flag on for each file and the folders that contain them. To extract them, you can use disk tools like ResEdit to manually copy them out into your Mac. But this is not for the faint-hearted. For the rest of us, we can simply reply on third-party tools to do the song extraction.
Ollie's iPod Extractor 3.0 is one such song extractor for the iPod. You can download the Ollie's iPod Extractor and then use it to extract and import songs from/to your iPod (see Figure 13).
Figure 13. Using Ollie's iPod Extractor 3.0.
For this tip, I will illustrate how to extract songs from your iPod. Click on the Extract icon and the following dialog window will prompt you to select your iPod (see Figure 14). Select your iPod name and click Open.
Figure 14. Selecting the iPod to extract the songs.
Then select a destination folder in which you want to save the extracted songs. Select a folder and click Open (see Figure 15).
Figure 15. Selecting a destination folder to save the extracted songs.
The extracted song will be stored in a folder named Music. The songs are stored in several folders (see Figure 16).
Figure 16. Examining the saved songs.
Final Thoughts
I'm constantly amazed by how versatile the iPod really is. Its beautiful integration with the Mac provides the opportunity for new and interesting things to do. Try something different with your iPod this weekend.
Wei-Meng Lee (Microsoft MVP) http://weimenglee.blogspot.com is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions http://www.developerlearningsolutions.com, a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest Microsoft technologies.
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AppleScripts Get The Job Done Too
2004-11-13 13:37:44 dougadams [Reply | View]
Check out our selection of iPod AppleScripts, including those which import iPod audio files, prepare new playlists, dump clipboard contents as Contacts, sync play counts and ratings between iPod and iTunes, and much more.
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don't forget iLinkPod
2004-11-12 22:59:19 oneworld [Reply | View]
iLinkPod
from the website:
LinkPod is first of all a unique tool that creates a permanent and direct access from your Desktop
(and your iPod or wherever you want) to the hidden folders in which iPod stores your audio files.
All this in the safest way, without modifying any file/folder or configuration file of the iPod!
Direct access means that you'll access your previously hidden audio files directly from
the Finder, while they remain hidden! (remember: iLinkPod will not modify any properties of files
on your iPod!). So you don't need iLinkPod or any other utility to access your hidden audio files
on the iPod, you'll have access to them through a common folder on your Desktop (and iPod too).
You don't need do execute iLinkPod again if you add or delete/modify songs on your iPod, you'll
have access to your iPod as it is in that moment!
In future plans, iLinkPod aims to become a complete "softhacking" tool for your iPod,
allowing you to learn how it works, for troubleshooting, indepth personalization, or just curiosity!
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iPodderX?
2004-11-11 04:57:18 Lilly1841 [Reply | View]
You didn't mention iPodderX! The regular iPodder has come along way, but to me, there's no comparison.
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Workarounds
2004-11-10 14:45:44 dumky [Reply | View]
"I'm constantly amazed by how versatile the iPod really is. Its beautiful integration with the Mac provides the opportunity for new and interesting things to do."
I agree that the iPod seems quite versatile and those tricks are nice. But they look a lot like workarounds the limitations that Apple built into the iPod and iTune...
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The Adaptable iPod
2004-11-10 06:35:56 Rambling Sid Rumpold [Reply | View]
Wing,
Nice article - maybe someone from Apple will notice that you've outlined the wider appeal of an iPod. Plainly all their ads are targeted at teen & twenty something musiclovers.
Old codgers like me find that it has a wider appeal than that. Of course it has my music collection but, I often use it also as a time shift device, for listen once and discard items. Exotic stuff like Scottish Football chat shows, Classic British comedies, not to mention audio books or radio streams from Kyoto to Cuernavaca. It's great to doze off listening to things you'd otherwise have missed, and all without disturbing a sleeping wife.
I use software from Bitcartel (Radiolover & iRecordMusic) the former for recording Internet radio streams, the other does stuff from the BBC or NPR.
Enjoy your articles keep 'em coming.
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Playing songs from iPod
2004-11-09 17:44:13 william_s_edwards [Reply | View]
If you have your iPod connected to your Mac (or PC, I presume, as well), you can play music that is physically located on the iPod through iTunes on the Mac. You must choose Manual Sync mode in the iPod preferences to do this.
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Playing songs from iPod
2007-01-29 03:50:22 slashjunior [Reply | View]
I agree. To play songs on my iPod through my MacBook I just connect my iPod to my MacBook, open iTunes and select my iPod in the source list and play directly from there. I do this all the time. My MacBook is empty of music and my Windows PC at home and iPod hold all my music, seems a waste of time and space putting all my music on my MacBook.
You may need to set up each computer's itunes to manually manage songs, but, believe me, it works without the need to download (yet) another piece of software.