[Cube] Re: Cube Emergency: Please Help

[Laurie A Duncan]

Impossible? Hardly. Very simple actually. The files on your iPod are
invisible when you are looking at the iPod in Disk Mode. Make them visible
and you'll see a bunch of folders that contain your music. And numerous
applications already written, both freeware and shareware that will enable
you to do it without needing to know or understand anything about why.

More here:
Copying iPod music back to a computer
<http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=5090_0_8_0_M>

Laurie
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On 10/12/04 4:19 PM, "George Pepper" <pep27 at mac.com> wrote:

> I managed to get all my data off the Cube before the drive motor toasted
> itself.
> 
> Now I need a new HD.  Guess this is an "oportunity" to upgrade.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Pep
> 
> RANT/ P.S.  A couple of people mentioned a couple of ways to get my library
> off of my iPod.  One even e-mailed me off line with a plug-in that's really
> cool [But that Apple squashed, natch].  Now, I'm probably the least computer
> literate person on this list [I don't want to know any more about computers
> than I absolutely have to to use them: That's why I use Apples (I still think
> UNIX is a hoax. I've never seen it.)], but isn't it IMPOSSIBLE to take MP3's
> off of an iPod from a computer whose iTunes library the iPod isn't linked to?
> For example, I put the plug-in into my Xserve.  I've never used iTunes on the
> Xserve, so the library is empty.  If I plug my iPod into the Xserve, the first
> thing the idiotic POS does is launch iTunes and ask me if I want to sync the
> iPod to this computer.  As much as an Apple ludite as I am, even I know that
> would ERASE my iPod.  There appears to be no way around this at all. So, am I
> correct in concluding that IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO RESCUE MY
> ITUNES LIBRARY IF THE HD HAD DIED BEFORE I TRANSFERRED IT TO MY POWERBOOK?
> Being a musician, I'm VERY fussy about copyright law, and think long and hard
> before I use any software that is "illegal", but my iTunes library is MINE! I
> bought all the music, and I spent the countless hours ripping the CD's, so I
> want to be able to put it on all four of my computers so that it's adequitely
> backed up. I think Apple is WRONG not to allow users to back up their iTunes
> library to their other computers (Who only has ONE Apple?), so I'd be
> interested in a reliable program that could do this. Illegal or not. /RANT
>  
> On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 06:31AM, t c k <parkblue at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps DiskWarrior can help rescue things to the point where you can suck
>> the data out of the drive? My experiences with it since v2.1 are A+.
>> 
>> -tobias.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12.10.04 01:29 George Pepper <pep27 at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Subject: [Cube] Cube Emergency: Please Help
>>> 
>>> My hard drive is about to die.  I've heard that "whine" before, and it was
>>> just a few boots before the HD imploded upon itself [Different computer; not
>>> even mine].  This is the original HD the Cube came with, so I can't say I'm
>>> surprised. Anyway, I've managed to transfer everything out of the Cube to
>>> the
>>> Xserve EXCEPT MY MONUMENTALLY VAST iTUNES LIBRARY!  I logged on to the Cube
>>> from the Xserve via the AirPort and found the library, but it gets to a
>>> certain point and aborts because it says it can't locate certain data or
>>> something [I think that's because the directory starts out with an alias].
>>> Anyway, that taught me that the AirPort is too freaking slow, if nothing
>>> else,
>>> so I'm going to try putting my TiBook in Target Mode and use FireWire [It'll
>>> still take for... ever... because the library is so humongous].  Problem is,
>>> the directory starts out with a freaking ALIAS!  So what EXACTLY do I
>>> transfer
>>> over?  This is probably really simple and I just can't think because I'm fr
>>> eaking out at the HUNDREDS OF CD DOWNLOAD HOURS I put into this library, and
>>> I'd hate to have to do it all over again.
>>> 
>>> Or, is there some way to take the library out of the iPod?
>> 
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