How to Transfer Music from iPod to a Windows Computer

As a music lover,to back up iPod music is very necessary.We might lose our iPod music someday because of our careless or misoperation. They may be erased by iTunes when syncing your iPod, may be deleted by mistake, may be wiped clean by unknown disasters to iPod. To prepare for all the worst, you can refer to this tutorial on how to backup iPod music to computer.

Since iTunes is incapable of iPod to PC transfer, here we can go without this huge program and use other tools to do the job. We can backup iPod music to computer with Windows system method, Syncios method, iFunbox method, following are the detailed steps.

1. Connect your iPod — Connect your iPod then run iTunes. Warning! If iTunes loads when you plug in your iPod, and is set to automatically sync your entire library (erasing files from your iPod), you MUST stop it — hit the little “X” in the upper right hand corner of the window.

2. Open Your Computer and iPod drive — It should show up on “My Computer” as a “Portable Device”; right click and choose “Open”.

3. Show the files — By default, Windows hides hidden files and folders (thus the name). Go to Folder Options (Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization), and on the View tab, check “Show Hidden Files and Folders”.

4. Find Music File — now in your iPod folder, open iPod_Controls > Music. Highlight all of the folders and drag them into the desired folder on your hard drive. This might take a while, depending on how much music you're transferring.

5. Configure iTunes — Go into Highlight all of the folders again, right-click, and select Properties. Uncheck "Hidden." Close this window.
Once the files are copied, you've successfully transferred the music. However, you'll notice that the songs have four-letter names and are scattered among many folders.

Now, with this solution above, you could save money and time on backing up your iPod music to Windows computer and there is no need to worry about losing your music file in iPod. Moreover, all these methods can be operated without network or wifi. It would be of great convenience to backup iPod music if you are on journey with just a laptop and unable to use iCloud.For more, you can also use some free software on the internet to complete it.