Rip my iPod?
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- kawai54
I was given an iPod as a gift that was already loaded with music. I just learned that I cannot change anything on it, as it is "married" the original computer that loaded it.
I also just learned about a website called "ripmyipod" that would solve this dilemma for me. But alas alack, it appears that no website by this name is still in existence.
Anyone know how to use a second computer to manage the music on an iPod?
- acescence0
use something like senuti to take everything off, then pair it with the new machine and reload everything
- kawai540
Thanks for the quick response. What is senuti?
- It's itunes bacwards.co2
- i've used the damn thing and i never realized that.locustsloth
- kawai540
Sorry, didn't notice the link. I see that Senuti is a Mac app. I'm using a PC. Any way to do it on a PC?
- kawai540
Also, it seems that Senuti is to transfer music from an iPod to a computer. I'm looking for a way to manage the songs on my iPod, such as delete some and add others.
- Huebert0
i've used winamp to copy songs to/from my ipod before
- acescence0
my suggestion was to just remove and sync everything with the new machine. do you want the ability to still connect to the original machine that loaded the music? if not, there's really no point in not doing it that way.
you can connect it to the original machine, and in itunes prefs set it to "manually manage music" if you want the ability to connect to both. the original machine has to be pc for that to work though, since your is pc
- kawai540
I have no access to the original machine. The iPod was given to me as a gift, and they loaded music onto it first. Their machine isn't accessible to me. But now I'd like to manage the music on my own computer.
Does Senuti still fit the bill? Sorry, I didn't quite understand what you were telling me.
Winamp works, too?
Thanks for your help!
- acescence0
ok, so the process would be to use something like winamp or some other pc equivalent to senuti and copy everything off the ipod to your computer, then erase the ipod via itunes and pair it to your computer, then put all the music you removed back on the ipod via itunes. it will then be restored to it's original music library, but under the control of your own machine
- zaq0
You need iDump
http://www.codershole.com/idump.…
- campana0
senuti.
- doesnotexist0
I use "ipoddisk" available from version tracker for free if you're on a mac.
- kawai540
Thanks, everyone. I'll try these things over the next few days and see how they work. Appreciate it!