Imagine the scene – you’ve purchased an iPod and you’ve spend a long time ripping your audio CDs into iTunes and you sync your music repository to the device. You enjoy playing music tracks to your hearts content, and what’s more your music library is available on your laptop, which is ideal for when you are working and just need that perfect background, mood music whilst you work. Life is good.
That is until you need to re-install your laptop due to one too many tests on your system that leaves it either inoperable or running uber-slow. Its Windows, it’s easy to install, you format your hard disk and re-install Windows and all third party applications. Your music collection has gone too, along with all of your playlists and podcasts. You plug in your iPod and iTunes immediately fails to recognise the device and syncs it with your empty music library wiping your iPod, and more frustratingly forcing you to have to sit through the tedious process of ripping your CD tracks all over again. Life is suddenly not so good.
Now I know that there are many third-party applications out there that makes the ‘recovery’ of your music library from your iPod/iTunes easy, but why is it that Apple haven’t bothered to make this easier with their own software tool that comes with iTunes, which seems to do everything but recovery. My Windows Mobile 6 smart phone has its own backup and restore process, why can’t my iPod?
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