[The hard drive where I has all my music stored "died". I did not even get a chance to transfer any data before this happened]
Q: Is it possible to used this plugin [or something else in Foobar] to transfer all my music on my IPod Classic to my hard drive? I believe this would be a "reverse sync". Any ideas? I know this is possible in Window Media Player [for example].

[I posted this in the foo_dop section, but I thought this idea of doing a "reverse sync" might be something other members have already done]

yup you should be able to do that but the file structure of the restore might be a little messy.

File > iPod > load library then select all files and then right click > file operations > copy to > .... and then use foobars title formatting to try and recreate your original file structure.

Yes. One thing I am worried about is preserving my original folder/file hierarchy/structure as much as possible. i.e. D:\iPod\My Music\U2\[2014] Songs of Innocence\01. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) is one example.

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-12 16:32:31

Yes. One thing I am worried about is preserving my original folder/file hierarchy/structure as much as possible. i.e. D:\iPod\My Music\U2\[2014] Songs of Innocence\01. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) is one example.

If your tags are complete this is simple to recreate with only a couple of mouse clicks with  foobar2000 or mp3tag.

Quote from: garym on 2015-07-12 16:36:51

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-12 16:32:31

Yes. One thing I am worried about is preserving my original folder/file hierarchy/structure as much as possible. i.e. D:\iPod\My Music\U2\[2014] Songs of Innocence\01. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) is one example.

If your tags are complete this is simple to recreate with only a couple of mouse clicks with  foobar2000 or mp3tag.

Unfortunately, I know very little about Foobar. I knew just enough to use it to sync my music to my iPod. I really need a step-by-step guide to do this reverse sync and preserve the folder/file structure, etc.

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-12 16:46:45

Quote from: garym on 2015-07-12 16:36:51

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-12 16:32:31

Yes. One thing I am worried about is preserving my original folder/file hierarchy/structure as much as possible. i.e. D:\iPod\My Music\U2\[2014] Songs of Innocence\01. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) is one example.

If your tags are complete this is simple to recreate with only a couple of mouse clicks with  foobar2000 or mp3tag.

Unfortunately, I know very little about Foobar. I knew just enough to use it to sync my music to my iPod. I really need a step-by-step guide to do this reverse sync and preserve the folder/file structure, etc.

Did you google as I suggested? Lots of step by step instructions available to recover files.

yup you should be able to do that but the file structure of the restore might be a little messy.

File > iPod > load library then select all files and then right click > file operations > copy to > .... and then use foobars title formatting to try and recreate your original file structure.

Windows Media Player successfully transferred all my music to my hard drive. However... Every music file now has duplicate track numbers in front of the song title. i.e. 01. 01. A Hard Day's Night
In the iPod Manager>Database>Title, I have "%tracknumber%, %title%". I do this so that I always have a track number displaying on my iPod. It has always worked fine.
This is a disaster if I have to repeat the sync. With almost 100GB of music, it take hours to do the sync. Any idea? Do I need to start over again?

EDIT: I should add that both WMP and Foobar display the track numbers properly [no duplicates]. It is only the actual music file names on the hard drive that have duplicate track numbers for every song!

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-12 22:04:20

Windows Media Player successfully transferred all my music to my hard drive. However... Every music file now has duplicate track numbers in front of the song title. i.e. 01. 01. A Hard Day's Night
In the iPod Manager>Database>Title, I have "%tracknumber%, %title%". I do this so that I always have a track number displaying on my iPod. It has always worked fine.
This is a disaster if I have to repeat the sync. With almost 100GB of music, it take hours to do the sync. Any idea? Do I need to start over again?

EDIT: I should add that both WMP and Foobar display the track numbers properly [no duplicates]. It is only the actual music file names on the hard drive that have duplicate track numbers for every song!

No need to sync again. You just need to reorganize and rename using tag info. It is very easy to do in a batch with mp3tag, using convert-tag to filename option. See
http://help.mp3tag.de/main_converter.html#ttf
Foobar2000 has something similar.

Quote from: garym on 2015-07-12 23:16:23

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-12 22:04:20

Windows Media Player successfully transferred all my music to my hard drive. However... Every music file now has duplicate track numbers in front of the song title. i.e. 01. 01. A Hard Day's Night
In the iPod Manager>Database>Title, I have "%tracknumber%, %title%". I do this so that I always have a track number displaying on my iPod. It has always worked fine.
This is a disaster if I have to repeat the sync. With almost 100GB of music, it take hours to do the sync. Any idea? Do I need to start over again?

EDIT: I should add that both WMP and Foobar display the track numbers properly [no duplicates]. It is only the actual music file names on the hard drive that have duplicate track numbers for every song!

No need to sync again. You just need to reorganize and rename using tag info. It is very easy to do in a batch with mp3tag, using convert-tag to filename option. See
http://help.mp3tag.de/main_converter.html#ttf
Foobar2000 has something similar.

Thx! I finally considered doing this too. Although, after doing this, when I synchronize the music on my hard drive with my iPod with Foobar, it is going to delete all of my music on the iPod and then re-add it because the files have been modified? Maybe this is not so bad - just very time consuming.

It's actually worse then I thought. It seems as if every song title in the entire collection, the "Title" tag, includes the track number in the beginning. I am renaming all of music using just the "Title" tag [if Tag&Rename will let me]. But, after that, I will still have to rename all the files as well.
It might just be simpler to start all over??

Yeh, it seems bad. I now have a collection where some song titles have the track number and some don't.

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-13 00:51:20

It's actually worse then I thought. It seems as if every song title in the entire collection, the "Title" tag, includes the track number in the beginning. I am renaming all of music using just the "Title" tag [if Tag&Rename will let me]. But, after that, I will still have to rename all the files as well.
It might just be simpler to start all over??

Yeh, it seems bad. I now have a collection where some song titles have the track number and some don't.

Once again, I could fix all this in a matter of minutes with mp3tag and convert - tag to filename with appropriate settings as illustrated, with examples, in the prior link I posted.

Quote from: garym on 2015-07-13 00:57:56

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-13 00:51:20

It's actually worse then I thought. It seems as if every song title in the entire collection, the "Title" tag, includes the track number in the beginning. I am renaming all of music using just the "Title" tag [if Tag&Rename will let me]. But, after that, I will still have to rename all the files as well.
It might just be simpler to start all over??

Yeh, it seems bad. I now have a collection where some song titles have the track number and some don't.

Once again, I could fix all this in a matter of minutes with mp3tag and convert - tag to filename with appropriate settings as illustrated, with examples, in the prior link I posted.

But, if the song titles are mixed: some with just the title [correct] and some with the track number as part of the song title [incorrect]? I would need to "eyeball" these to figure out which to fix and which to ignore? And, then there are the file name fixes too?

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-13 01:06:20

Quote from: garym on 2015-07-13 00:57:56

Quote from: TheEmpathicEar on 2015-07-13 00:51:20

It's actually worse then I thought. It seems as if every song title in the entire collection, the "Title" tag, includes the track number in the beginning. I am renaming all of music using just the "Title" tag [if Tag&Rename will let me]. But, after that, I will still have to rename all the files as well.
It might just be simpler to start all over??

Yeh, it seems bad. I now have a collection where some song titles have the track number and some don't.

Once again, I could fix all this in a matter of minutes with mp3tag and convert - tag to filename with appropriate settings as illustrated, with examples, in the prior link I posted.

But, if the song titles are mixed: some with just the title [correct] and some with the track number as part of the song title [incorrect]? I would need to "eyeball" these to figure out which to fix and which to ignore? And, then there are the file name fixes too?

Are you saying the title tag has the track number in it?  (Seems odd given that there is already a track tag) so Not just the filename?  If so, you are right. Same action won't work for all files. Maybe you can filter the files first by sorting on title. That may break the listing some what naturally.