Apple iPods 101 - Manual (Page 25)

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 You will now find the iPod icon on your desktop as well
as in my computer in Windows. All you need to do is
double click on the icon and drag your files from or to
the iPod window to copy them over.
 Remember to eject your iPod before you disconnect it
from the computer.
Copy Songs from your iPod to your Computer
It’s easy to copy songs from your iPod to your computer.
You will find that the iTunes library that is on your
computer contains all of the sondgs that you have encoded
either from your own collection of CDs or from the iTunes
Music Store. When the default settings are activated,
iTunes will automatically copy the songs that are in your
library onto your iPod. If you are going to be using your
iPod as a hard disk you won’t be able to see the songs that
are being copied through my computer. Don’t worry since
this is completely normal. You won’t be able to copy these
same music files from your iPod to another computer or
back to iTunes. This is because the synchronization of your
computer and your iPod works in only one direction: from
iTunes to your iPod.
Beware if you’ve erased your library of music from your
computer. There isn’t a way that you use my computer to