(Senuti can also automatically add the tracks to your iTunes Library, and even to a particular playlist in your Library, if you’ve enabled these options if not, you’ll need to add them manually later.) Senuti even has a live search filter that works just like the one in iTunes-start to type the name of a track, artist, or album, and the list of tracks will be narrowed down as you type. If you just want to transfer individual tracks from your iPod to your computer, you select them and then click the Copy button (the big arrow pointing down, as in “download”) they’re quickly downloaded to the location you select in Senuti’s preferences dialog. Even worse, if you’ve got a good number of tracks from the iTunes Music Store, getting those back won’t be easy-Apple’s official policy is that you should have backed up. If you can’t do it using your iPod, this means re-ripping all of your music from your CDs (a process that took me several months). For example, if your hard drive suddenly bites the dust and you didn’t have the foresight to back it up, you’ll need to restore your entire Music Library. Wrote last week, it’s quite possible that someone in search of such functionality is just trying to get their own, legal, music back. As my Playlist colleague Christopher Breen The problem is that, like many policies made necessary by the actions of a few bad apples (no pun intended), this design makes it difficult for those who have legitimate reasons to get music off of their iPods.
The reasons behind this are understandable: Apple doesn’t want people using iPods as “music mules” to illicitly copy tunes between computers. But you may have also discovered that Apple has made it difficult to get music from your iPod to your Mac. If you’ve got an iPod, you know how easy it is to get your music onto it and to keep it in sync with your music collection.
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