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

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In article <mgp0q6$kgn$1@dont-email.me>, "Dean" <deanc1029@yahoo.com> 
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> 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?"

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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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