With the development of digital technology, more and more digital products are used universally in our life. iPod becomes the best welcomed friend for more and more people all over the world. I have an iPod too and I usually make mistakes when I copy audio/video files between iPod and my PC. For example, I often do not find the files on my iPod or PC that I copied just now. I want to copy a song to/from my iPod but I do not know which one I should select and so on. What a terrible thing it is! Fortunately, I catch sight of a utility which can copy songs from iPod to PC easily on the Internet when I am surfing on-line. Some useful software can help us to do this.
The first software is iPod2PC, with iPod2PC we can easily copy/restore our songs, play lists, videos and podcasts from our iPod back to our iTunes music library or to any folder on our PC. It supports automatic import in iTunes, including our "My Rating", "Play Count" and "Last Played" information from the iPod songs. iPod2PC offers very fast searching and a browse mode which makes finding songs on the iPod easy. With the sophisticated song selection method (via context menu), choosing desired groups of songs for copying is also very fast and easy. Just do a right click on any song in the song list to invoke the special context menu, which enables us to check/uncheck all or specific groups of songs for copying. The list of shown songs can be sorted ascending/descending by song name, artist, album and other properties by clicking on the header of a column. The program can be run directly from our iPod, so we can carry it with us wherever we go. The program lets us browse our songs by album, artist or genre, and also provide a search feature to locate specific items.
Another great product is iDump, iDump supports output templates and can automatically create folders based on the artist and song information. You can also search your iPod by keyword, create a playlist from the selected songs and set rules for unattended transfers. Standalone, can run from your iPod.
The third software is Sharepod, Sharepod is a small software that runs directly from your iPod and allows you to transfer your songs from your iPod to the PC it is currently connected to - without the need to have iTunes installed on the PC. You can also search through your content, play selected tracks and delete songs from the device. Sharepod also includes an option to copy files from your PC to your iPod, but this feature is no longer supported for newer iPods and should be used with caution or not at all.
