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Finch Platte
 Post subject: Tip: Back up your iPod
PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:35 pm 
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I don't have an iPod, but this might be useful to some of you.

From Popular Mechanics.

Want to back up your iPod without using iTunes? Connect the iPod to your PC. Open any window and select Folder Options from the Tools menu. In the View tab, check "Show hidden files and folders." Go to My Computer and double-click your iPod. Now you can see a folder called iPod_Control. Double-click it. Select the Music folder, and drag & drop it onto your hard drive. Make sure you have enough space on your drive to accommodate the files.

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Derek Phillips
 Post subject: Re: Tip: Back up your iPod
PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:46 pm 
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Finch Platte Wrote:
I don't have an iPod, but this might be useful to some of you.

From Popular Mechanics.

Want to back up your iPod without using iTunes? Connect the iPod to your PC. Open any window and select Folder Options from the Tools menu. In the View tab, check "Show hidden files and folders." Go to My Computer and double-click your iPod. Now you can see a folder called iPod_Control. Double-click it. Select the Music folder, and drag & drop it onto your hard drive. Make sure you have enough space on your drive to accommodate the files.

Aside: Is there really such a thing as a popular mechanic?


I just backed up my library onto DVDs using iTunes. Is there a reason folks don't want to use iTunes? It was easy and relatively fast for me.
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 Post subject: Re: Tip: Back up your iPod
PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:56 pm 
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Finch Platte Wrote:
I don't have an iPod, but this might be useful to some of you.

From Popular Mechanics.

Want to back up your iPod without using iTunes? Connect the iPod to your PC. Open any window and select Folder Options from the Tools menu. In the View tab, check "Show hidden files and folders." Go to My Computer and double-click your iPod. Now you can see a folder called iPod_Control. Double-click it. Select the Music folder, and drag & drop it onto your hard drive. Make sure you have enough space on your drive to accommodate the files.

I seem to recall looking in that folder one time and seeing hundreds of randomly named folders with names that consisted of letters and numbers, inside of which would be one song. They must mean a true back-up and not something you can use to retrieve music from an Ipod, because there are plenty of programs to do that.

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Derek did you back up your ipod contents or your hard drive contents?
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 Post subject: Re: Tip: Back up your iPod
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Derek Phillips Wrote:
I just backed up my library onto DVDs using iTunes. Is there a reason folks don't want to use iTunes? It was easy and relatively fast for me.


Yup, I have an Athlon X2 processor, and Itunes doesn't like that at all. It spawns multiple threads for a bunch of batch tasks, and eventually two of them close at the same time and crash the application without any useful diagnostic message. It took me 4 days and a reinstall of windows to figure out what was going on.

I also don't like the way that it stores everything in the Ipod's music folder with randomized mp3 names. This makes it a PTIA to move stuff off your ipod to a different machine. Sketch told me of an app called anapod explorer that seems to offer a great deal more functionality than itunes, (albeit for 25 bucks) that I'm going to check out.

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ephpod is similar software AND free, so that may be worth checking out as well.
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ephpod is similar software AND free, so that may be worth checking out as well.


as in freedom and beer, as opposed to itunes, which is just free as in beer.
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Sketch Wrote:
ephpod is similar software AND free, so that may be worth checking out as well.


this is what i use...and personally i like it alot better then itunes.....

clean, no bloat, etc...

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HaqDiesel Wrote:
Sketch Wrote:
ephpod is similar software AND free, so that may be worth checking out as well.


as in freedom and beer, as opposed to itunes, which is just free as in beer.

similar to anapod, law-boy.
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If this is the first time someone had this idea, that's sad.
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If this is the first time someone had this idea, that's sad.


I was trying very hard not to go there, myself.

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