Lost your Music? You can recover from your iPod! (Without a Program!)

If your like me, you like to use external HDD’s to store data you use frequently between laptop and PC. My unfortunate situation as I mentioned briefly in a previous post was that my external was recently damaged my a duche bag. Long story short, I lost all my music!
What I hate about Apple products is that they make it so difficult to do… anything! Getting the music on there is all well and good but lose your originals and, unless you buy a program (or purchased all of your music through iTunes) it’s gone. Or so I thought…
I like to consider myself a medium geek. I know more than the average bear but I ain’t no Bill Gates! I am kicking myself for not thinking of doing this sooner. Here is how you can recover your data from your iPod/iPhone etc easily (basic computer skills required B-) )

• Plug your iPod/iPhone into your computer.
• Open the iPod through My Computer
• Go to Tools > Folder Options > View (the tab) > and have Show Hidden Files and Folders selected.
• Click OK (not cancel… people do it!)
• Go back to your iPod folder, there you will find a new folder called iPod_Control. Open it.
• The Music folder in it will have a bunch of folders named F00, F01 and so on. This is all of your music, movies, videos etc.
• Copy them to wherever you want the iTunes Media to point to and add them to iTunes.
• iTunes should add them with their original names etc. Make sure you also have Keep iTunes Media folder organised ticked and it will rename the files back to what they were for you.

I got this information from here but I modified it slightly towards the end. This is tried and tested. I was so happy, I thought I had lost thousands of songs! d-_-b