Fun iPod Tricks


An iPod is more than just a music player; it's an Information device. Not only can you use your iPod to play music from your favorite singer or band, you can use it to listen to radio recordings, listen to "audio weblogs" (known as podcasts), and more. In this article I'll show you some tips for getting the most out of your iPod. I'll also explain how to manipulate the files stored on your iPod.


Tip 5 -- Locating and Copying Music Out of your iPod


Once your songs are copied to your iPod, how do you copy them out? To prevent the theft of music, Apple has hidden the music files on your iPod. But are they really hidden? Well, they are simply hidden by turning the "invisible" flag on for each file and the folders that contain them. To extract them, you can use disk tools like ResEdit to manually copy them out into your Mac. But this is not for the faint-hearted. For the rest of us, we can simply reply on third-party tools to do the song extraction.


Ollie's iPod Extractor 3.0 is one such song extractor for the iPod. You can download the Ollie's iPod Extractor and then use it to extract and import songs from/to your iPod (see Figure 13).


Figure 13. Using Ollie's iPod Extractor 3.0.


For this tip, I will illustrate how to extract songs from your iPod. Click on the Extract icon and the following dialog window will prompt you to select your iPod (see Figure 14). Select your iPod name and click Open.


Figure 14. Selecting the iPod to extract the songs.


Then select a destination folder in which you want to save the extracted songs. Select a folder and click Open (see Figure 15).


Figure 15. Selecting a destination folder to save the extracted songs.


The extracted song will be stored in a folder named Music. The songs are stored in several folders (see Figure 16).


Figure 16. Examining the saved songs.



Source: Wei-Meng Lee, Mac Dev Center