Can you transfer music from an mp3 player back to a PC?

Just wondering, because I have some songs in the mp3 player that I bought from multiple computers and would like to be able to store them on the pc, in case my mp3 player dies.

 

there are about 500 different mp3 players. can you tell us which you have? it makes a big difference.

 

Unless you're using an iPod it is doable. I would think you would open the double click on the drive icon and just drag all your music out and into the My Music folder. With the iPod you can use such software like senuti (iTunes spelled backwards. But that's only for Macs. I think there was a couple of good ones for Windows, but I forgot the name of it.)

 

If its an ipod...a program call iDump works very well

 

Oh, yeahhh that's the one.

 

lol! ...works great easy to use

 

Whoops, forgot about that-it's a Sandisk Sansa C200

 

Duh...geeze (SP?) cant believe I forgot about drag and drop? I'm such a dolt sometimes, thanks everyone

 

haha...but thanks for the post or else i wouldnt have known about iDump ..
thanks guys

 

I have a Zune 30G

 

does iDump work with the ipod touch?

 

Copytrans is a good program for Windows. I had to use it earlier this year when I had a complete hard drive failure, and had to move all songs, videos and purchased stuff off of my backup to my new PC. Worked like a charm.

 

Congrats. Want a cookie?

 

With the iPod, you can now use the iPod itself as an external drive, assuming that one of your iPods has everything on it (ie I have several...an old 3rd gen that has everything EXCEPT for videos, a 6gb mini that has some stuff and no videos, of course; an 8gb nano which has all music but no videos, and an 8gb nano which has all videos but only some music, AND my iPhone which has some music and ALL videos...confusing).

Apple has the instructions for enabling the iPod as an external disk drive on their website, but even assuming that you have one iPod with everything on it (ie when I get the new 16gb nano), some reports say that you can lose some of the songs you purchased because paranoid Apple makes it difficult to move purchased songs over from one computer to another. You must deauthorize one computer and then authorize another.

 

yes but you can't just take the songs off the ipod. They dont show the correct names, but instead in random letters such as JVMLK...weird stuff.

 

I know. With Copytrans you can, though. The names come right over. I think the only thing that doesn't come over is some of the "tags," such as date last played, or play count, but names, artist, album and genre come over effortlessly with Copytrans.

 

Ar I see, cool, something else for me to look into.

 

Let's just say that Copytrans saved my butt. I'd have been a very unhappy person otherwise.

 

Basically if the music isn't DRM'd then you should be able to do it with any player other than the ipoo. If its got DRM then you should just delete it and redownload it without DRM.