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Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac?

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On 2015-04-17 01:01:28 +0000, Don Bruder said:

> In article <mgp0q6$kgn$1@dont-email.me>, "Dean" <deanc1029@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone help?
> 
> I can dump the audio files from a 5th Gen iPod Nano to a Mac. However
> (and to my mind, this is a pretty big "however"), what you'll end up
> with is a folder stuffed with a bunch of files with names like
> "08A91F4C26BDE7.mp3", and *NO* metadata of any kind (unless there's
> something useful actually buried in ID3 tags within the files) being
> preserved.
> 
> I don't have (or have access to) an iPhone of any generation to try my
> method and determine if it'd be useful on those.
> 
> Unfortunately, the process for dumping an iPod's audio onto a Mac isn't
> something I can tell you how to do - It's not that I consider it
> "secret" or anything, it's just that it's one of those "I can do it, but
> I couldn't *TELL* you how if my life depended on it" things... If you
> were sitting here next to me, I could SHOW you how I do it, but trying
> to *TELL* you is, for me, a task on a par with brain surgery - I could
> try, but the results probably wouldn't be at all pretty or useful.
> 
> Be aware that the capability to grab data from the iPod (and presumably
> the iPhone, and probably the iPad) is intentionally crippled - If you
> could just go to your buddy's house, load his iTunes library onto your
> device, then bring it home and plug it into your machine and snatch it
> into your own library easily, piracy would be too simple, and I doubt
> the iTunes store would have anything to sell, since the music folks
> would have told Apple to take their idea and shove it where the sun
> doesn't shine and the air quality is highly questionable. The way things
> are, Apple can honestly say "Look, we don't provide any capability to do
> any such thing - in fact, we make it a point to wipe anything on the
> iDevice that isn't already in the library our software uses before
> allowing our software to work with that device! Doesn't that prove we're
> anti-piracy?"

Hell! If you are really that desperate to get to the music files in 
your iOS device without using iTunes, just get "iMazing" (It actually 
works pretty well).
<http://imazing.com>

-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? "Dean" <deanc1029@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-16 15:00 -0400
  Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-04-16 16:50 -0700
    Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-16 20:02 -0400
      Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-04-16 17:25 -0700
    Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-16 19:26 -0700
      Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-04-17 05:32 -0700
        Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-17 08:24 -0700
          Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-04-17 10:08 -0700
  Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-04-16 18:01 -0700
    Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-16 21:05 -0400
      Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-04-16 19:07 -0700
        Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-16 22:54 -0400
          Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-04-16 20:56 -0700
            Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-17 07:47 -0400
    Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-16 18:44 -0700
  Re: How to transfer iTunes library from iPhone to my Mac? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-04-17 05:31 -0700

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