[REQUEST] Getting music on an ancient iPod back into iTunes

[Calx]

I've got a customer with an aging ipod.
He went to a pizza tech who nuked his PC and didn't back up his itunes library (2000+ songs)

Some of the songs are there in his Purchased items in \Tunes, but a lot of his stuff her purchased from iTunes in the early days, and those aren't showing up.

He doesn't want to plug the ipod in as it will sync and delete the contents.

I know you can purchase software to do like a reverse sync and copy songs from ipod to itunes. Before I blindly buy something I thought some one on here must have done this and could recommend a process, or software or drop me a link to follow.

Many thanks

This Pizza tech also failed to return the guys back up drive, and changed his email password and promptly forgot to remember what he changed it too!! Damn some people give us a bad name

 

[CLC]

I believe this is what I used a while back to transfer a bunch of songs from my sisters old ipod and it worked great.

https://www.purpleghost.com/irepo-c...od-iphone-ipad-to-your-computer-or-itunes.php

 

[carmen617]

How ancient is the iPod? If it's an old fashioned mechanical model (pre-touch) I used to do that recovery all the time using variations on this technique:

https://lifehacker.com/105256/how-to-copy-songs-from-your-ipod-to-your-pc

Make sure you disable sync on iTunes before plugging in the iPod.

 

[Calx]

How ancient is the iPod? If it's an old fashioned mechanical model (pre-touch) I used to do that recovery all the time using variations on this technique:

It is an ipod classic, not sure which gen though. Not touch.

 

[mlcomputers]

I have used copytrans with good success in the past

https://www.copytrans.net/

Apple will also allow you to download all of your historical purchases again if you contact their support, (Unofficially they will let you do it once!!) I managed this when a customer lost an iPad last year and had never backed it up.

 

[Markverhyden]

It is an ipod classic, not sure which gen though. Not touch.

That model uses a 1.8" HD. Been some time but I think it shows up as an HD if you plug it into a Linux box.

 

[frase]

Another for copytrans 100% success

 

[Calx]

Thanks, I am going to purchases CopyTrans. Good tool for the business anyway
Thanks everyone