Transfer music from iPod to PC

iPod transfer to PC

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I had such a hard time transferring my iPod songs to my computer and importing them to iTunes, I decided to compile all my research to spare you the headache

Let's start with something relatively simple, though absolutely indispensable: transferring songs

from iPod to PC

If, like me, you manage your iPod music with iTunes, you should have noticed that transfers with iTunes are, surprisingly, only one-way transfers

After a computer crash and a complete system reinstallation, I ended up with all my music being locked on my iPod and no way to move it back to my PC

I opened iTunes and tried to drag my songs from iPod to the "Library", no chance. Then, I tried to slide my iPod songs to my PC, no better chance

After some search on Google, I landed on several websites pretending their softwares were able to do what I was looking for:

transfer iPod music to PC

So, I tried several of them and one quickly got out of the pack:

I am not an expert, but believe me, this software is damn good !

In a couple of obvious clicks, I was all set: with all my iPod songs, playlists, videos, artworks copied to my computer and even back into iTunes as I explain it on another page

Enough talking, let's get started!


First you need to Download CopyTrans

Depending on the web browser you are using, the installation file should either end up in My Documents ⇒ Downloads or on your Desktop

The icon looks like this




Double-click it and follow the installation steps ( if you have never installed a software before and need help on this with , their Installation page will help you )

Once installed, you will see a kind of launcher with other programs from the CopyTrans Suite that I will discuss on other pages of this website, because literally every of them is worth its weight in gold

Click ⇒

The program opens and you are ready to rock 'n roll





Check the boxes next to the

iPod songs to transfer to your computer

( you can also hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys to select multiple songs at a time or, even simpler, press Ctrl + A to select all songs )




Next step is either to click "Backup to Folder" if you only want to

copy iPod songs to a place ( folder ) of your computer

or "Backup to iTunes" if you also want them to be inserted to the iTunes Library, which is discussed on the next page of this website




A last screen before the actual operations start lets you choose advanced transfer settings. If you are as computer illiterate as I am, just stick to the default ones, it worked like a charm for me and just click:



A progress bar shows up with information about ongoing operations and when the copy of your

iPod to PC

is over, a summary shows copy result and possible errors

As I had no errors, I just opened the destination folder I had chosen for my transferred songs with great impatience and... Voilà!
All were there, safe and sound, none missing and ready to be imported to whatever music program you use ( iTunes, Winamp, Songbird, etc. )




Next page describes the parallel operation, including automatic import iPod songs to iTunes