Syncing iPod to iTunes (Not the other way)

[FireWired]

Apoligies if there are many threads out there like this one, but I couldn't find much when I ran a search. Anyways, I just recovered from my first real hard drive failure/replacement (myself!), and I have almost everything back to my new drive (using the hard way of dragging all my files instead of using a disk image or something... probably not the right choice) except some of my iTunes:

I copied all of my songs (from the iTunes Music Library folder) to an external drive about 2 weeks before it finally died. But during those 2 weeks, I added about another 100 songs to iTunes. When my drive died, my iPod was entirely up to date, but my external drive wasn't -- it didn't have those additional songs (which I had also put in some playlists).

My iPod is set to update automatically, so I haven't plugged it into my computer, afraid of losing those songs (which would not be easy to get back/re-import either, in case you were wondering) when iTunes syncs to it.

So I suppose my first question is: How can I plug my iPod into my computer without it automatically updating (which it is set to do)? Secondly, how would I transfer songs from my iPod back to iTunes/do you have any recommendations for a good program that does so?

The ideal situation would to have a syncing program that syncs the iPod to iTunes (and thus would add those missing 100 songs to iTunes), rather than the other way around.

Thanks

[ob1cannoli]

umm...I think just plugging the pod in and force quiting iTunes before it opens will do the trick (option click the dock icon while it's bouncing..) for apps, I use PodWorks but I'm sure there are plenty of other ones...a quick search on versiontracker will do it, or even on the MacOsXHints listing for unix commands to do iPod->iTunes

[guardian34]

You can try Senuti: http://wbyoung.ambitiouslemon.com/senuti/

[FireWired]

Well, thanks for the replies. I connected my iPod and immediately Force-Quitted iTunes. Then I opened PodWorks, but when I clicked "Send to iTunes" for the very first song, iTunes launched and my 114 songs were erased before I even knew what happened...

At least I got screenshots of the songs I was missing. I'll just have to re-download 50+ songs (legally of course -- they're not by a professional artist), re-borrow a CD (hehe), and re-import a couple, so I guess it's not a real big deal. Thank goodness it wasn't my entire Library though.