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Connect your iPod ? Warning! if iTunes loads when you plug in your iPod, and is set to automatically sync your entire library (erasing your iPod), you MUST stop it ? hit the little ?X? in the upper right hand corner of the window.
Open your iPod ? It should show up on ?My Computer? as a ?Mobile Device?; right click and choose ?Explore?. Alternatively, go to the Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, and double-click your iPod. Unhide the files ? By default, Windows hides hidden files and folders (thus the name). Go to Options (in the Tools menu), and on the View tab, check ?Show Hidden Files and Folders?.
Find the Music ? The music is stored (in current iPods) in the directory ?\iPod_Control\Music?. This may have a lot of odd looking stuff in it ? it doesn?t matter; select everything and drag and drop them to a folder on your hard drive.
Configure iTunes ? Go into iTunes Preferences, and under the Advanced tab, check ?Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized? and ?Copy files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to the library? (settings move around a bit between versions of iTunes, but these settings will be there somewhere).
Add Your Files ? In iTunes, select File, Add Folder to Library, and select the folder where you copied the files from your iPod. Alternatively, just drag and drop this folder onto iTunes
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