Copy Music from Your iPod to your ITunes Library...continued

With those files deleted, your iTunes library should now empty. Navigate over to the iPod in My Computer and make sure you set the folder options to show hidden files (Tools -> Folder Options -> Show Hidden and System Files).

Find the hidden folder called iPod Control. This folder is filled with many files named with nonsensical names. Believe it of not, this is in fact the music library on your iPod. Copy that folder to anywhere on the PC which could take a while - especially if you have a lot of songs.

When this copy is complete make sure iTunes is set to manage your library and to copy files when adding to iTunes. This is important to get iTunes to organize the songs using the ID3 tags in the song files you just copied over.

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