This PROGRAM will allow you copy your songs from your iPod to a PC, iDump does come WRAPPED in installer but you can simply drop the .exe in the root directory on your iPod and run it from there. CONNECT your iPod and run iDump and you'll have access to all your songs, select the songs you want to transfer then pick a destination directory and how you would like your songs to be named. And then sit back and copy all the selected songs to the PC.

Although there have been several shareware choices to allow you to copy songs from your iPod to your computer, the freeware field has been empty--until now.

iDump offers a clean, spreadsheet-style layout that displays all music on your iPod. That lengthy list can be narrowed via the search function. Songs can be organized by terms as familiar as song name or artist to the more esoteric year, bit rate, or even location on the iPod. The app displays the song's iPod path, cracking Apple's unusual file-saving protocol. A main window tab takes you to output options, and from there you just have to choose your songs and hit Copy. Clicking once on a song selects it, and there's also a smart feature that plays the song you've selected in ITUNES. Clocking in at under 1MB, iDump is small enough to live on your iPod. We'll LET you figure out why that's a good thing.

iDump does have some stability problems, and it doesn't automatically import backed-up songs into iTunes once they've been copied to your hard drive, a definite drawback. Those are small quibbles, though, compared to what you get for free.