When you find your ipod is manually managed, its sometimes harder to follow some help sites instructions as to how to get music off your ipod to computer. Here is a way of doing it when your ipod is manually managed. These insturctions are for vista users because thats how i did it.

First To find if your ipod is manually managed. Load it up in itunes and select the ipod. It should have some sentances with check boxes next to it. If enable disk use is selected but grey. This way is usful.

1. Once you have done all the ubove go to my computer.

2. Select the organize tab at the top. Go down to the "Folder and Search options".

3. A new window should come up with three tabs. Select the "View" tab.

4. In the "view" section there should be a box titled advance setting. Look for the hidden files and folders bit. Select the "Show hidden files and folders" sentance. Click apply, and ok.

5. Now on the ipod file section should be a new folder named "iPod Controll". Select that.

6. Some more folders should come up. Now select the "music" folder.

7. When this opens the will be alot more folders named F00 through to F49 (You may have more or less i assume depending on what ipod you have.)

8. From this, I opened up a new window and went into my music. I created a new file to put all of my music in. You don't have to create a file you can just put it in that folder.

9. This bit is a bit long... Now go into the folders described in number 7. Select all the music in each folder and you can drag and drop it into your new folder or where ever you new music destination is.

10. The songs have different song titles, and still im not sure how to automatically change them. Although When you add the folder to itunes the song titles come up. Also if you want to add them to windows media player just drag and drop them to it and the song titles should come up.

I hope this helps you =]

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