Ipod Song Recovery

Here's a neat little trick I picked up for use with your Ipod that just won't give up all those pesky songs it has stored on it. The Ipod uses some pretty shoddy security to keep you from accessing your songs stored on the hard drive so here's a quick software-less way to retrieve them. Plug your Ipod into your computer and navigate to it in windows explorer. Now in the top menu of the explorer window choose Tools drop down menu and select folder options. Now under the View tab make sure "show hidden files and folders" is checked and click OK. You will now see there is a new folder on your Ipod. Inside this once hidden folder is a list of folders that contain your songs. There is one catch - the Ipod does not save the files to its hard drive under artist and song name. All songs are listed as random characters, FX9W4 for example. Your best bet is to copy all the songs from the Ipod onto your computer and load them into iTunes or another audio playback program and change the artist/song info once you listen to them. So there it is, you've officially "hacked" your Ipod and can finally retrieve that long lost B44 album you've been missing.