Help with my iPod touch

**RobiLee** · 04-30-2012, 11:23 AM

Can anyone help me out with my ipod touch? Desktop computer is no longer working so I'm trying to set it up on my new laptop. downloaded itunes but can't figure out how to transfer my songs from my ipod to the computer and I don't want to sync it and erase what is on there. Help!

**Karen** · 04-30-2012, 11:47 AM

Robin, is your desktop computer a Mac or a PC? Are you able to turn it on at all? There is no EASY way to get music off an iPod touch to a new computer, but there are things to do if the old machine is completely dead ...

**RobiLee** · 04-30-2012, 12:03 PM

The old computer will stay on for awhile and then shut down. It no longer allows me access to my itunes. Its says the program no longer exists along with my browser also. I am so frustrated! I paid for all this stuff. It is all on my ipod. does apple think your computer lasts forever and that you don't use other computers? Just don't understand why I can't put my ipod on my new laptop. so freaking crazy! Why does apple make this so hard? I've alway loved my ipod touch. big fan of apple and wanted someday to have an apple computer and phone but this has really bothered me and i don't know if I feel that way anymore. sorry I know I'm ranting but I'm soooooo frustrated.

**Karen** · 04-30-2012, 12:20 PM

You cannot just upload from you iPod so people can not just steal music by passing the iPods around. The preferred method (by Apple) is to go from one computer to the next, but there is a work-around if the old computer is just plain dead.

This link will walk you through it:
http://lifehacker.com/5869827/how-to...puter-for-free