How do you put music from your ipod onto your computer?

I've tried every way I can think, and I know there is a way, I've just got NO idea what it is.
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Apple and Mac are B*&#!'s when it comes to allowing you to play or transfer music to any other program or attempt to rip the music onto a CD. That would be bad for business for them. They store the files in encrypted MP4 files that can only be accessed through QuickTime or by using Itunes. You can build a library with Itunes on your computer then transfer them to your Ipod, but going in the other direction doesn't really work. Mac and Apple have been trying to capitalize on a generation of computer-illiterates as you might have seen on their 'I'm a MAC' TV commercials (in this example we see that only 'cool' young people use macs and old geeks use PC's). The inability to transfer the music freely has me giving my Ipod loving friends the big 'I told you so', and a whole lot of people going back to good old fashion pirating and 'illegal' downloads with P2P programs like bittorrent and limewire.

The good news is that once your battery in your ipod dies (they last up to a few years statistically) you just throw out the Ipod and buy a new one. Isn't that MAC commercial guy so cool!

I've done this.

1.) Turn off Auto-update for you iPod (on the computer that you last synced your iPod to)

1.) Upgrade to iTunes 7 if you haven't already on the target computer.

2.) Plug your iPod into your computer and choose it.

3.) On the summery tab select 'Manually manage songs and video' and 'Enable Disk Use.'

4.) Now you should see your iPod as a mapped drive. In iTunes select 'Keep my Library Organized' and 'Copy Files to iTunes Music Folder When Adding to Library.'

5.) authorize this computer if you need to transfer any iTunes purchased songs, if you only have mp3's than all the better.

5.) select 'Consolidate Library' and the files will be coppied.

As many times as I've bashed Apple and the Mac over the years I have to admit that the iPod is a great product. I can play MP3's on my PDA and PSP but they don't sound as good as on my iPod. My iPod Nano is last years model but it is tiny; much smaller than my other devices.

funguy is wrong about not being able to burn tunes to CD's with iTunes. I've done it several times making my own compilation CD's for the car.

Fillet, then what? Do you sync? or will it do it automatically? I did as you suggested, but nothing is copying to my pc, (that I can see).

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173 This website is the offical Apple website, and it tells you how to do the above!

There's a program called iDump which basically takes all the songs from the iPod back onto your computer. It's very easy to use, it's free and has no viruses. Try a google search on it

this is what sparkinlarkin was talkign about

go to this website.http://escsoft.com/idump.php

and download the program idump then install it.

http://escsoft.com/downloads.php?id=9

then simply attatch your ipod then open the program and tick the songs you want transfered to your new computer then select where you want them

hope this has helped =)