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When you want to transfer music from iPod to iTunes, you’ll likely find out that not every part of these little devices is particularly convenient. Moving the music from the computer to the device is easy enough, but doing just the opposite is sometimes a bit more complex than you’d think. These devices, however, are quite capable of doing this, they just need a bit of help from the right software. You have to understand what iPod and iTunes do to understand why.
The iPod basically makes a mirror image of the files on your computer, which are held in iTunes. The iPod can be refreshed with new files because iTunes knows to only copy new files to the iPod and doesn’t create duplicates. Because the iPod was never designed as the platform onto which new music is downloaded after purchase, the process necessary to transfer music from iPod to iTunes is much more complex than the opposite. The original intention of the designers was that you buy music at the iTunes store, download it and put it on your iPod. As anyone with an iPod knows, sometimes you shop on different computers.
When you transfer music from iPod to iTunes, you need to perform the exact operation that’s performed when you do the opposite, completely in reverse. The music you copy back to the computer needs to be in the same folder as it appears on the iPod. This is the only way to preserve your organizational scheme. The software that facilitates this operation will take care of this for you, making the entire affair very easy and saving you a lot of time and stress. It’s usually not expensive at all, and worth much more in terms of the time it saves.