Ipod formating HD / transfering music

Hardware and technical stuff
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Someone made reference to this in the ugly DRM thread :)

I’ve recently formatted a hard drive which stored all my itunes/ipod music on it. Prior to formating I copied the directory onto a different drive.

Is there a way that I can reinstall itunes and then move/copy in all the files to the directory, so it recognizes all the music and I can updated it as it was before with out any issues?

Last time I reinstalled itunes, it got the pc/ipod out of sync and I lost all the music on my ipod as well as my PC - which wasn’t bad at 30 songs or so, but now I’m up to over 125 songs, and I’d rather not have to go through and re-rip a bunch of them.

  • tried searching but the database is acting funky right now
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www.getsharepod.com for getting music off your ipod.

nvm, misread the direction in which you want to get files off.

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Hm, no that might work too… I just made a copy of all the files just in case I could simply copy the files back, vs downloading everything from my ipod back in to itunes

If need be, I can make a back up copy from the ipod and then import them in to itunes?

I wonder if the backup from getsharepod is any different then the simple files that itunes creates.