I recently upgraded a ton of components in my computer, essentially a new PC. XP seized to function with all this new stuff, so I upgraded to Vista. And I didn't back up my music.

All this music is still on my iPod touch however, and Apple got rid of the disk drive function on the iTouch. And now I can't sync without losing everything, about half of which I paid for through iTunes, other half albums I still have.

All the software for fixing this situation costs money, and the jackass at the Apple store basically (rudely) told me I'm screwed and I can set up a Genius bar appointment if I'd like.

What can I do? This could be SO easy to fix, but Apple just had to make it difficult.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/IPOD-TOOLS/Multimedia-IPOD-tools/iDump.shtml

http://www.softpedia.com/progViewOpinions/iDump-23799,.html

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SharePod needs the Microsoft .NET 2 Framework to work correctly.

http://www.getsharepod.com/

Get SharePod. It's so much easier and you can edit the files that already exist on your iPod.

iTunes is the worst piece of **** software, I'd never let it touch my PC.

Thanks so much! I just got sharepod. It looks promising but I can't use it until my ipod is charged enough lol.

EDIT: Its working! awesome!

Nice! Yeah... fuck iTunes, and fuck Apple. But since you already have an iPod, just look for third party open source iTunes replacements.

Let this be a lesson to you. I hear thepiratebay.org is pretty cheap when it comes to music.

i personally use ephpod you can grab all your songs quite easily...and its free