Despite what some record industry bigwigs may believe, not everyone is desperately seeking free music. And Apple realizes that accidents happen. Hard drives crash. Computers end up at the bottom of swimming pools, in the hands of thieves or in deserted hotel rooms thousands of miles from home. Indeed, there are plenty of law-abiding, upright reasons to want to retrieve music from your iPod.

1. How to Transfer Music/Songs from iPod to Computer,
PC Easily？
The reasons to copy/paste songs from the iPod to your Mac or PC
aren't always related to piracy and file sharing. A time may
come, when we have all our music stored on the iPod; and the
music stored on the computer is lost, deleted, or corrupted.
What do we do then?
In such a situation, if you want to get your audio files back onto
your desktop computer or laptop, you will have to copy the files
from the iPod onto your computer's hard drive.
Usually the easiest way of doing this is to connect your iPod to the
computer and after tweaking a few setting, you can directly
copy/paste the songs from your iPod to the computer. The few
setting that you have to tweak, and the entire process you have
to go through is mentioned below. Note that the procedure is
different for Macintosh machines and Windows machines.
If you think changing or tweaking your iPod settings is too much,
then there are also certain software that will help you copy your
music from an iPod to a computer. A few of the best software

2. that perform these tasks are Senuti, CopyTrans, iPod Rip, iRip,
and TouchCopy. Each software provides fast file transfer
through an easy-to-use interface. Make sure the one you use
can transfer all the tags properly. Apart from that, there isn't
much concern over the use of these software. They easily let
you copy all the songs, podcasts, and videos to your
computer/Mac, and give you a good panel to browse through
your collection.
For an ordinary MP3 player, you can just connect it to your PC,
and directly copy songs to computer as you like. But if you have
an Apple's iPod, then things will be different. We'll know that
Apple's iDevices are different from the traditional cell phones,
MP3 player or other devices. It is hardly to export files from
iDevice to PC without any third-party program. So many iPod
users are looking for an effective way to transfer music from
iPod to PC for better enjoyment in the daily life. Thus, we
write this article to show you the detailed steps to export music
or songs from iPod touch, nano or shuffle to PC easily.
To reach it, you need a third-party program to help you, here we
could like to recommend Coolmuster iPad iPhone iPod to
Computer Transfer and Coolmuster iPad iPhone iPod to Mac

3. Transfer for your reference. As a professional iPod Music
Transfer, this recommended program enables users to copy
music from iPod to PC within one simple click. And it is fully
compatible with all models of Apple's iPod, including iPod
touch, iPod nano and iPod shuffle.
How to Transfer Music from iPod to Computer on Windows 8 or 7?
You need to do some preparations before we start exporting music
to computer:
1) Computer (Desktop or laptop)
2) iTunes is installed on your computer;
3) Apple's iPod touch, nano or shuffle.
If all preparation works have been done, then you can
follow below steps to begin your transferring process:
Step 1. Connect your iPod touch/nano/shuffle to the computer via
USB cable and run this iPod Music Transfer tool. Then your
iPod's name, capacity and other info will be displayed in the
main interface.

4. Step 2. All files on your iPod will be categorized into different
folders and displayed in the left panel. You can enter these
different folders to get the detailed file info. When you select
"Music", all your music files will show up in the list on the right
part of the software’s interface.

5. Step 3. Just mark all music files you want to transfer and the
exporting process will start after you click "Export" button on
the top of the interface. Wait for a little while, you can find all
your favorite songs on your computer without any quality loss.
Despite what some record industry bigwigs may believe, not
everyone is desperately seeking free music. And Apple realizes
that accidents happen. Hard drives crash. Computers end up at
the bottom of swimming pools, in the hands of thieves or in
deserted hotel rooms thousands of miles from home. Indeed,
there are plenty of law-abiding, upright reasons to want to
retrieve music from your iPod.

6. Step 3. Just mark all music files you want to transfer and the
exporting process will start after you click "Export" button on
the top of the interface. Wait for a little while, you can find all
your favorite songs on your computer without any quality loss.
Despite what some record industry bigwigs may believe, not
everyone is desperately seeking free music. And Apple realizes
that accidents happen. Hard drives crash. Computers end up at
the bottom of swimming pools, in the hands of thieves or in
deserted hotel rooms thousands of miles from home. Indeed,
there are plenty of law-abiding, upright reasons to want to
retrieve music from your iPod.