iPod Touch --> Computer? (for free)

[Artemis]

I lost a lot of my music collection and stuff over the summer (hard drive crash - it's better now though!) I have all of my music, many photos, and videos on my iPod Touch and I need to move it to my computer.

Does anyone know of a good freeware method for me to move my music, photos, videos, and PLAYLISTS to my PC? I see so many programs out there but they are all payed, and playlist regeneration isn't promised in the features.

I've tried YamiPod and Floola but they don't support iPod touch. I have a 32GB (1st Gen) iPod Touch so I need to find a freeware program that supports it.

Thanks!

[Snarkasm]

Have you tried Songbird? I don't know about playlist support... but that's the free iTunes replacement I use when I need it.

[kryyst]

Ok stupid question, but what about itunes?

[Snarkasm]

Doesn't iTunes require that you have them already in your library to offload them or something like that? Or you have to de-authorize wherever they were before?

I forget.

[Cliff_Forster]

I'm not 100% sure, but let me take this opportunity to say, loud and clear....

DRM SUCKS!!!

[kryyst]

Yeah I'm not sure actually, not having any DRM music personally. You could be right and that could be the same problem with any software at this point if the content is all DRM encrypted it can't offload it. It actually makes sense otherwise you could just take your itouch to a friends place and dump the files.

Doing some research I came across this, seems to do exactly what you want.
http://www.copytrans.net/copytrans.php

[F Stein]

I would think that you're right about not being able to offload music. Otherwise if your buddy purchased a few songs, you could put them on your iPod, and take 'em home.

Although, not many people buy music these days.

[shwaip]

Most programs will let you copy all music/videos over just fine. I couldn't find a good way to copy over playlists/ratings when I accidentally formatted over my itunes library. I bit the bullet and remade my playlists.

[F Stein]

Ah, I see. It's a shame that you had to result to that sort of method. Hopefully OP finds another way of doing it.

[Kwitko]

I know Floola works for iPods, but not iPhones or iPod Touch.

[Lincoln]

When my hard drive crashed and I reinstalled iTunes, it re-downloaded the one movie clip on my iPod that I hadn't backed up and put it back in my library for me.