To protect the copyrights of the music and video stored on iPod, Apple has make it difficult to transfer the songs and videos that stored on iPod to personal computer. But for some reasons such as need to reload your library on local hard disk due to desktop hard disk failure or buying new computer, you need to copy back the video, music and song library from iPod to your PC.
Fortunately many developers answered this need and have created tools making it easy for anyone to transfer their music from an iPod to a PC. Just follows the steps blow:
- Download a iPod to PC Transfer software
- Insert your iPod to a Windows PC USB or FireWire port. (PC should runs Windows XP or other Windows operating system).
- If your Windows PC still doesn't have iTunes installed, skip this step. If iTunes is already installed and prompt a message on whether if you'd like to associate this iPod with this computer and deleting its content, click No. Or else you will lose your only copy of library on iTunes. Beside, ensure that 'Enable Disk Use' is selected.
- Run the iPod to PC Transfer, and click the "Query" button to query iPod music database
- Select your favorite songs and click "Copy" button, the iPod to PC Transfer will start working!
Backuping your entire iPod music library to a PC is very important, because you've spent the time, money and effort to put music on your iPod, then your music files should be protected from data loss.
