#1730101, By ed Ipod to pc?

ed 15 Oct 2006 15:30:20 260 posts
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plok wrote:

generica wrote:
Yes, or at least anapod can (just not with the trial).

Ah but I'm wondering can it be done just with iTunes. Just manually copy the messed up file structure onto your PC. Get iTunes to import music from the messed up structure and copy it into its on nice file structure. It should then rename all files according to ID3 tags, and you can then delete the stuff you manually copied. No? Losing everyone again. Maybe I'll shutup til I try it myself! :-D

iirc the iPod has a database of song titles etc. which it uses to give you all the info quickly, rather than searching through several thousand mp3 files it just loads up one database. This means the id3 tags are not included on the actual mp3, to save space, and the ipod opens the song by it's strange filename. Programs like ipodagent and yamipod take the song info from the database and re-insert them into the id3 tag.

So to give you the short answer, no you can't do it that way.