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From: Amanda Ripanykhazov on 14 Mar 2010 18:00
Had a hard drive crash and lost my library. Restored the whole library
of whatever was on the iPod to my MacBookPro using Pod to Mac. Seems
like a great program?

Now I am not sure I can sync new CDs from my collection by inputting
them into iTunes because there is a major discrepancy between what is
on the iPod and what is now on the computer: The music library on the
computer now shows 2642 'songs', 13.28 GB of data (I only have 'songs'
on the iPod, never having figured out how to get my Mpeg videos onto
it!)

The iPod however shows 14.77 GB data and over 2900 songs: Do I
somewhere have over 200 'lost' songs? (actually they are all tracks
from CDs which I can replace with the CD tracks if they are actually
lost and are all on the same CDs: I never download songs)

Does anyone have any idea what is going on please? Is there any way of
doing a file compare between the files on the computer and what
appears to be the metadata on the iPod? (I tried asking this question
on iLounge and not only did no one seem to know the answer but I even
found someone else with the same unanswered problem, though he had
just found a way of copying all the individual tracks to his hard
drive in disk mode, which I didnt think you could do)
From: dg on 16 Mar 2010 14:37
On Mar 14, 5:00 pm, Amanda Ripanykhazov <dmanzal...(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea what is going on please? Is there any way of
> doing a file compare between the files on the computer and what
> appears to be the metadata on the iPod?  (I tried asking this question
> on iLounge and not only did no one seem to know the answer but I even
> found someone else with the same unanswered problem, though he had
> just found a way of copying all the individual tracks to his hard
> drive in disk mode, which I didnt think you could do)

I don't do much with my Mac anymore (B&W w/ 10.4) other than home
theater, and have zero experience with iPods (they conflict with my
hyper-vigilance) but it seems to me that both have file systems and so
the BSD "diff" command could be used. To confirm this and check on how
the command would have to be structured, I'd suggest (a) borrowing a
new iPod (in case of file structure failure, stuff happens when you're
shooting in the dark, y'know) and (b) reading the manual file on the
diff command. As I recall, you'd open command prompt (it has a
different name) and type

diff /?
to find out what options are available, and
diff -man
to find out how to use the command.

My experience using Unixes and Linuxes says, make sure you've got your
printer configured so that you can print the files you look up.
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