How to copy music from your ipod to your mac

[wgscott]

First, enable your ipod as a firewire hard drive if you haven't already done so.

You can make this a script file or run the following set of commands interactively from a terminal window.

replace "myipodname" with your ipod's name (use quotes if there are spaces in it"

replace myname with your username

This copies every mp3 into a file called Shared. If you don't have such a directory, make it first, i.e.,
cd ; mkdir Shared

Now just copy like this:

cd /Volumes/"myipodname"/iPod_Control/Music
foreach testfile ( "*/*.mp3" )
cp $testfile /Users/myname/Shared

Then you can import all or any subset of this music to itunes just by selecting and dragging onto itunes.

[saint.duo]

Heh, I was doing this about an hour after we got our first iPod at work, it was pretty funny.

Now, I just use podmaster.