Copy music files from your ipod using only the command line.
Posted by MickeyMouse in Apple Mac
Copying files from your iPod to your Apple system is easy. Here are the commands.
After seeing a recent tutorial on copying files from your iPod to your PC, I wanted to show Apple users that it is pretty easy to copy files from your iPod as well. That’s actually a pretty interesting tutorial for both Apples and PCs so check it out.
His instructions for apple, however, were pretty thin. Here is what you need to know to copy your music files from your ipod to your apple.
1. Open a terminal window
2. Run the following type of command:
cp -R /Volumes/ipodname/iPod_Control/Music local_music_path
where:
ipodname = the name of your actual iPod
local_music_path = path on your Apple you want to copy your files to
Here is what I run on my system.
cp -R /Volumes/mickmPod/iPod_Control/Music /Users/mickm/Music
3. Wait while the files are copied over to your system. A new line prompt will appear when it has completed. You will see a bunch of numbered folders in your local_music_path.
September 01, 2010 at 1:25 pm, Steve said:
This no longer works. Immediately after mounting an iPod, iTunes is started and the drive is unmounted. (Obviously remounted elsewhere, but it’s not obvious where.)