Music recovery

[nitrobass24]

Ok my friend really F**ked her Itunes/music up and its all gone. But she has everything on her ipod. I hooked it up and looked at it just as an external hard drive, but all the files are named weird/encrypted. Is there any way I can recover this music from the ipod?

 

[phide]

I'm not sure, but I think the library directory is kept on iPods. It's essentially just a file that defines what all the tracks are (renaming and re-distributing tracks is Apple's method of preventing people from swapping music from iPods).

If not, copy the files, kill the directory structure and go through the tracks one by one, renaming as you go. Alternatively, there are programs that can examine a file and make guesses as to what the file is and automatically rename the files. I can't recall the names off-hand.