How do you transfer music from iPod to XP?

Answer 1

1. Insert your iPod to a Windows PC USB or FireWire port. (PC should runs Windows XP or other Windows operating system).
2. If your Windows PC still doesn't have iTunes installed, skip this step. If iTunes is already installed and prompt a message on whether if you'd like to associate this iPod with this computer and deleting its content, click No. Or else you will lose your only copy of library on iTunes. Beside, ensure that Enable Disk Use is selected.
3. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer, the iPod should be automatically detected as a portable hard drive.
4. Click on the iPod icon or the iPod portable hard drive letter to open the contents of the drive.
5. If you don't see a folder called iPod Control, it's hidden and invisible. To unhide it so that it's visible, go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View, and then check (enable) the option Show hidden files and folders.
6. Open the iPod Control folder, and then the Musicfolder.
7. The Music folder contains the iPod's music and videos, divided into folders. Copy the library to local computer hard drive's My Music folder.
8. The files copied have unintelligible four-letter file names. To reveal the names of the songs and other data tags, add the files to the Windows Media Player or iTunes libraries or switch to "Tiles" view in Windows Explorer.
9. Rename the file if necessary.

Besides the above manual way to copy and transfer song library from iPod to computer, or import into iTunes, there are several third party programs, more commonly called iPod Manager, that have the iPod copying function.