copy music from your iPod onto your computer

This is the easiest way to copy music off your ipod.
1. in properties, de-select the hidden folders option
2. connect your ipod to your computer
3. Click the "my computer" icon,
4. look for your ipod in the list of drives, click on it
5. then click the folder called "ipod_control",
6. inside "ipod_control" is a folder called "music".
7. copy the "music" folder to your hard-drive.

you can copy the entire folder to your computer's drive or open the "music" folder and pick which songs you want to copy. this gets a bit trickier since the database methodology the ipod uses changes all of your file names to something like this "ADAF.mp3", all the meta-data is the same though, so you can still easily see what the files are and put them back into any media player.