[3 Ways] Move Music from iPod to iTunes Library

Do you have an iPod that saves your favorite old songs and collections that you don’t want to lose? No matter whether you will keep on using it or not, you may want to move music from iPod to Library in iTunes so that you can still listen to it on other devices.

Here in this guide, you can get three effective ways to transfer either only purchased or all music from iPod to iTunes Library.

• Transfer only purchased music from iPod to iTunes library
• Move music from iPod to iTunes library via transfer software
  • Option 1. Automatically add iPod music to iTunes library
  • Option 2. Manually add iPod music to iTunes library
• Conclusion

Transfer only purchased music from iPod to iTunes library

There are strict limitations to moving music from iPod to iTunes Library. You’re only allowed to transfer purchases from iPod to iTunes. Or you can refer to the next part to transfer all music from iPod to iTunes library via the transfer software.

Make sure you’re running the latest version of iTunes, and the following steps will introduce you how to transfer purchased music from iPod to iTunes library on Windows 11/10.

Step 1. Open iTunes on your computer, click File from the menu bar > Choose Preferences.

Step 2. Click the Devices tab > Check the Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically box > Click OK and close iTunes.

Note: The two steps above help prevent the music on your iPod from being overwritten with what’s in your iTunes library.

Step 3. Connect your iPod and launch iTunes again > You may need to go to the Account > Authorization to Authorize This Computer.

Step 4. Click File > Devices > Choose Transfer Purchases from [your iPod name] to start the process.

To check the songs that you’ve just moved to the iTunes library, you can click Recently Added from the left panel of iTunes.

Move music from iPod to iTunes library via transfer software

To make sure you won't lose anything when syncing music from iPod to iTunes library, the professional transfer tool - FoneTool must be one of the best choices for you.

If you want to:
✔ transfer both purchased and non-purchased music from iPod to iTunes library/computer,
✔ spend the least time transferring songs as many as possible,
✔ preview and choose the wanted music, videos to transfer,
✔ transfer iPod songs to iTunes library without erasing the existing music and other data on iPod, FoneTool can give you a hand.

FoneTool is perfectly compatible with a series of iPods, as well as iPhone and iPad. Thus, you can also rely on the tool to transfer music from iPod to iPhone/iPad.

Click the icon below to download it to your computer and move iPod music to iTunes library automatically or manually.

Option 1. Automatically add iPod music to iTunes Library

There is a little-known folder located in the iTunes default folder named Automatically Add to iTunes, providing a way to automatically move music from iPod to library as soon as you run iTunes in the background and move music to the folder.

FoneTool allows you to transfer music from iPod to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder directly. Every detailed step to sync iPod music to iTunes library with it is introduced below. Please open your iTunes before transferring iPod music so that you can access music in iTunes library as soon as the transfer process finishes.

Step 1. Connect your iPod to your computer with USB > Launch FoneTool and click Phone Transfer from its homepage. Go to iPhone to PC and click Start Transfer.

Step 2. Click the plus icon > Choose songs that you want to move to iTunes library > Click OK to confirm.

Step 3. Click Start Transfer > Choose the Automatically Add to iTunes folder as the destination > Click Transfer to start the task.

Notes:
• Where is the Automatically Add to iTunes folder? It is located in your ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music folder or under ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media.
• You can also select any other local folders on your computer and manually move iPod music to iTunes library by following steps in Option 2.

When the task is finished, the music should be moved into the iTunes library, you can head to it to have a check.

Option 2. Manually add iPod music to iTunes library

If you choose to save the music files to a local folder on your computer, the step below helps you move iPod music to iTunes library manually.

Launch iTunes on your computer > Click File from the menu bar in the upper-left corner > Choose Add File to Library to add music files to iTunes.

Conclusion

That’s all for the three ways to move music from iPod to library in iTunes. You can use iTunes to transfer purchases from iPod to iTunes library.

If you don’t want to lose your music, the transfer tool - FoneTool will be a nice helper for you to automatically or manually transfer all music from iPod to iTunes library. The tool can help you backup iPod to computer as well.

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