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

That's it- you have all your iPod songs now properly copied to the desktop and nicely organized and in the iTunes database. Note that when you first connect your iPod to your computer it will wipe your iPod clean and sync the new iTunes library back to your iPod.

It seems like a silly step but since the two libraries are the same anyway it doesn't hurt anything, it just takes time. It is necessary to make sure the databases are identical. Once it's done you can delete your iPod Control folder you copied on your desktop since iTunes has copied the songs into it's own directory tree.

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