NACHOPOLEAN  It seems as though everyone is having trouble with this program. Is it worth getting and using if it's like this?

And has anyone had this program somehow mess up your ipod, or itunes, or even something else on your computer?  
(Version 5.1)

JAN_KASPAR  If you're getting the "this_ipod2" error message, try

Ctrl + click on the ipod in the iTunes left hand column.

Click: Open iPod (before you do this, make sure you have set the ipod to manual music setting) and the ipod screen in iTunes should open in a new window. ITunes will ask you something like: are you sure you wanna open, just say yes.

Then Ollie's SHOULD recognize your iPod.

This at least worked for me. I tried to get Ollie's to recognize my ipod for the longest time, and all I got was the "this_ipod2" bull crap, but when I opened the iPod in a new window within iTunes, Ollies seemed to catch it. And my music is being extracted as I type.

Hope this helps...

JK  
(Version 5.1)

JUSTINE LISETTE KISSANE  i tried to use this to copy 35GB of music from an ipod classic to my mac 10.5.6 but it came up with an error that said argument too long, or something to that effect. I can't paste the error here... any help?  
(Version 5.1)

ANJEN  

I tried it but it said...

Apple script error

The variable-ipod2 is not defined (-2753)

What do I do?

(Version 5.1)

Help please  
(Version 5.1)

MIKEBALL  I tried it but it said...

The variable requierd by this -ipod is not defined -2753

What do I do?  
(Version 5.1)

SEANOO NEEDS YOUR HELP  I connected my ipod to the computer to extract musics as guided and followed the process, and I came up with /bin/sh:....argument list too long error message(126)

Please help me solve this...  
(Version 5.1)

BASTI_K77  Copying my tracks back worked fine, sync rating and play counts too,

but i got the following on syncing Playlists:

AppleScript Error

iTunes got an error: Can't get every track of playlist "Library" of source "Library" whose name of it = "Let there be light". (-1728)

What could i do???  
(Version 5.1)

BRADENKEITHCOM  Worked great. Love it!  
(Version 5.1)

MARIANN  Hello. The ipod extractor is now on and its skipping my purchased music and seems to be only restoring my music from CD's. Is there something I can do? Thanks.  
(Version 5.1)

MACCALI  I just installed this program, and an applescript error that reads

2007-06-27 17:57:44.424 open[2049] No such file: /Volumes/LEAH TAPSCO/iPod_Control/Music/*/*.* (1)

comes up. Can you please help me!!!  
(Version 5.1)

PHASEFORWARD  Mac OS X 10.4.10

Ipod Shuffle 2

Ipod power switch on and connected via docking station.

Apple script error: The variable this_Ipod2 is not defined. (-2753)

Isn't working...  
(Version 5.1)

OLEY  So what? Just type in the password that you use to manage your computer :)  
(Version 5.1)

MARUZOO  Hello, I install the application, but it asks me for a password, can you help me?  
(Version 5.1)

HELPME  I couldn't be more pleased! After accidentally losing my iTunes Library this week, I've been in a panic to find a way to recover it by downloading my iPod to my Mac. Apple was certainly no help and several independents with software had complicated directions and didn't work for me. Not only was Ollie's iPod Extractor free (I was happy to VOLUNTEER a $15 donation) but it did ALL of the thinking for me. I recovered over 1500 songs! Thanks.   
(Version 5.1)

HENNESSY028  Ollie's program worked great! Does anyone have the link to make a donation? I accidentally clicked out of it.  
(Version 5.1)

ADAM MCLEAN  Ollie's extracted from my Ipod. However when I installed into I tunes some songs only play for a few seconds. the entire song is there as I can fast forward or start half way through the song. However, when left to play from the beginning it stops after a few seconds. does anyone know how to fix this?  
(Version 5.1)

MISTER  Wow man your program is fully hectic it worked like

a charm!!!!

Like did you seriously make that!!!  
(Version 5.1)

QUBBED  Overall, this application did what was promised. It did, however, change the file names to weird letter combinations. I think it happens more – or only – when cover art is accompanying the file. Clicking on the file name plays it in iTunes and then usually changes the name back to the original. It does also make duplicates where applicable. Easily fixed by the Show Duplicate Songs command (although going in by hand is more effective). We do have to remember that this application was most likely written in someone’s parents’ basement to meet the demand for an extractor – as well as make a few bucks, I’m sure. It is not perfect, but it did what I wanted it to, and anything it changed was easily restored. Sure it takes some time and effort, but if you’re a big enough fan of your music, it is well worth it!  
(Version 5.1)

SORIN2120   I accidentally put what I said bellow as I commet, so I could not rate the program down. The comment below is the actual review.  
(Version 5.1)

SORIN2120   This program does not actually move any music. I just used it. It said it moved all my music to my computer. I did this because I needed to reformat my iPod. So I then restored my iPod to factory settings, after checking that the songs in my library played. I then went back into my library to discover that none of the songs would play, because their original file could not be found. This program is completely and utterly useless. It accomplishes nothing. I now lost 28GBs of music and countless hours of time spent finding, ripping and enjoying it. I really could not be more dissapointed with the false claims made about this program. It should at least be posted what it does, before people use it and have thousands of dollars worth of information destroyed.  
(Version 5.1)

TRAJANK  Worked wonderfully ! But it did have some problems on a few files that were transferred over incorrectly. But other than that it worked wonderfully on 55gb worth of songs.  
(Version 5.1)

DRUNKTANK  hey I keep trying to use your ollie's extractor but it keep telling me to put in a password ?where do i get this password from?  
(Version 5.1)

SASACHEL  thanks, the program worked great transfering the songs from my ipod, the only problem is that when i burnt a cd including songs i only had on the ipod and songs i had on my computer the cd can't be read by any non computer player. i've never had this problem before, any hints on how i can fix this?  
(Version 5.1)

ADRIEN  liked the product but a lot of my songs are missing:( and some even have a different name (DHGJ.M4A) just a sample and when I search for the songs on my hdd I cant find them. i am using tiger on a pb15. Just to clarify I did make the bhextraction folder but I cant search for the songs using the find function.  
(Version 5.1)

ADAM MCLEAN  Didn't work at all I just got an Applescript Error of /bin/sh: line/usr/bin/open list is too long?

What does this mean? Can it be fixed?  
(Version 5.1)

OCEANNE  When I attempt to use the Extractor, I immediately get an AppleScript error saying it can't copy an m4a song. That's fine, I know that format is protected, but the program just stops running after the error, rather than skipping the song and going on. I only have a few m4a songs, but the Extractor won't copy anything at all over from the iPod.  
(Version 5.1)

ANTONIA  Ollie - whoever you are, you are a Godsend. I lost my songs because of a failed hard drive and was amazed when Apple said I couldn't just download the songs from my IPod.

So, after finding you and using your program, I just donated to your Paypal account and would like to have given more because your software has saved my music. I am so incredibly grateful. The only thing I have to worry about now is getting all my songs back into their original Playlists, which takes a helluva lot of time.

Thank you so, so very much for creating this product.

Ys,

A

P.S. Note to future users: I did have to hit the Ollie icon about four times to get all the songs. It seems to pick them somewhat randomly and not all on the first try...  
(Version 5.1)

WARCHILD13  I keep gettng an error message. APPLESCRIPT ERROR

/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/open: Argument list too long (126)  
(Version 5.1)

HAKUSHONDAIMAO  Ollie saved me days of work... and tons o' money... when I mistakenly erased my iTunes folder on my hard drive. Easy to use, and all tunes restored...  
(Version 4.5)

KOODOUGH  I love your iPod extractor. Extermaly fast when importing. Just one thing and you can make better. When I import the songs iTunes plays thing once their finished. Well while I was importing I went to the a Prefs menu to turn off the option of playing the song once imported but iTunes still plays the songs. I would be nice if you can if you added the feature not to play the songs once imported or tell how in advance to stop the playing when import. Thanks. Great app and I love the .dmg installer window  
(Version 4.0)

MARC   This piece of software worked absolutely perfectly for me. I was able to transfer all the files from my iPod Nano created on a Powerbook G4 into iTunes on an iBook G4 with no problems whatsoever. If it kept playlists it would be perfect. But given the amount of time I have saved in having to reload stuff onto a new laptop it is indispensible and works. Donation on the way.   
(Version 4.0)

HUGO  I get a message stating that there is no such file. What could this mean?  
(Version 4.0)

FRANçOIS  Ipod broken, i ran the prog and, as the extractor tries to detect my ipod, this one doesn't respond at all, keep me showing the apple logo. Tried to reset, no way, i think i can throw it away :-(.

I don't know if it's the extractor but it happened at the moment i was using it.  
(Version 4.0)

ANONYMOUS  Didn't work for me, when I tried to copy all songs, AppleScript error came up:

sh: line 1: /usr/bin/open: Argument list too long (126)

:(  
(Version 4.0)

THE ITUNES GURU  I downloaded this compact bit of code. It does work ok but it caused my itunes to go haywire for about 20-30 minutes and I couldn't put iTunes in the background and switch to another application while it was working.

The promise it makes that "duplicates will not be made" is not completely true, (although it tries not to make them)

If, for example, you have the same song but on both your itunes and your ipod, but they are given different genres, duplicates will be created. I ended up with about 1.6gigs worth of duplicates with a 15gig library. It didn't take too long to find and delete them. (Used the "show duplicates" option on iTunes)  
(Version 4.0)

RASIN MAN  The program functions as advertised. It extracts the songs but it also renames the songs to some cryptic 4 letter uppercase code. (it does however keep the artists name, time, album and genre correctly listed.)  
(Version 4.0)

DARTH BROOKS  "If you've lost some or all of your music library, but you still have the tracks on your iPod, Ollie's iPod Extractor is the application for you."

More to the point: If you want fewer restrictions on YOUR iPod and YOUR music files, Ollie's iPod Extractor is the application for you.

Thanks, Ollie.  
(Version 4.0)

TONY  I fumbled around with Senuti for a good while with no success. I downloaded Broken Helix and it did exactly what I wanted the first time.   
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  WORKS FOR ME! I'm not sure what problems the other users had.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Piece of crap. Crashes as soon as I try to "extract" from the ipod. Just a phenomenal waste of time looking for it, downloading it...just hope nothing was installed behind the scenes.  
(Version 1.0)

CHRIS W  I successfully downloaded Broken Helix, but when I click on "extract from ipod" it tells me there is "no ipod connected." The ipod is connected. iTunes recognizes it.

Has anyone had this problem?  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Sucks eggs major major!!!!  
(Version 1.0)

SIMI CHAVEL  Stay away. Takes over your computer through iTunes without doing what it should, and must be forced to quit.

iBook G3 / OS 10.3.9  
(Version 1.0)

DEE  I am having trouble downloading this app. to PM 1.42MHz DP running 10.3.9 ... all that downloads is in the Explorer Browser window and is program language.

Help!

thanks.

2nd eMail: I copied URL from IE 5.2.3 (51815.1) to Safari and it downloaded beautifully. Assume problem is with MS ... what else can one expect from the lowest common demoniator!

Regards!  
(Version 1.0)

DEE  I am having trouble downloading this app. to PM 1.42MHz DP running 10.3.9 ... all that downloads is in the Explorer Browser window and is program language.

Help!

thanks.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  i used this to move my friend's music to their new computer. the program said it was done importing, but after i checked, was in fact 100 something songs short. luckily, my friend never noticed.  
(Version 1.0)

ANDREW WEBB  Note to developer: When are you going to release the none broken version?

This application displayed the nicest blue window I have seen in an application. Didn't do much more. It certainly didnt copy my iPod back to my iTunes as promised. Help refers to a broken page.

What a waste of time  
(Version 1.0)

JULIAN  Works as promised. I copied all music from my iPod to the harddrive and then, I imported the music manually into iTunes. mp3-tags are correct.

It's quite fast, too!  
(Version 1.0)

NATALIE  This was great - really easy to use but i dont understand why my library has less songs than my iPod. are there certain characteristics that it wont import?

Any way to pick up the remainders?  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Love it, restored my itunes library like it used to be.  
(Version 1.0)

JW  Downloaded several times successfully, but application automatically shuts down every time I try to use it?

Can anyone help?  
(Version 1.0)

DANIEL  The bloody thing went crazy!! Downloading songs from the ipod again that were already there...

I would have liked the option of what songs I could have downloaded to the computer.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Doesn't see my connected iPod. 20GB ipod purchesed 2/05, G4 powerbook circa summer '04, Mac OSX 10.3.8. Tried everything I can think of, it just doesn't see it.  
(Version 1.0)

MICAH ROEHLKEPARTAIN  great application.

really smooth.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  good stuff  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  I tried to download software, but a code keeps coming up. I've tried everything-- even restarting my computer, but it keeps doing it. I have an iMac G4 (swivel)

800 MhZ, OS 10.3.8. HELP ME!!!!  
(Version 1.0)

SISU  Download. Install. Open. Transfer from iPod Mini to new eMac. 5 minutes... Sweet.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Worked great for me except again I am missing songs. It seems that only MPEGs were copied and WAV files left out.   
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  i sat and watched it run through my every song and listened to little snipets and it took a while right? but then at the end i couldnt find the music and everytime i try to reopen helix it tells me to enjoy. wheres the music gone?  
(Version 1.0)

KOALA BEAR  Slick, simple, safe...well done, and thanks!

How many security features can a Koala Bear?  
(Version 1.0)

CHARLIE STIGLER  I have used this program after my iBook had a kernal panic, and then had a complete hard drive failure. It is a quick download, and looks good. It was incredibly easy to use. I extracted my 999 songs from my iPod... and found I only had 879 songs! I extracted again, and the remaining songs came, but you have to remember to check you have all your songs.

Aside from that, it's a good program.  
(Version 1.0)

IANANDREW  Seemed like a great program until I compared the number of songs that iTunes said was on my iPod and the number of songs that were extracted from my iPod. It turns out the program skipped 150 songs. The songs it skipped were completely random too, so I would have to go through and compare a couple thousand songs to find the ones it skipped. For a small library, it might be worth your time but not for me.  
(Version 1.0)

DAZ  Best apple application ive ever used!!!!!!

Thank you!

You saved me ALOT of hassle with this SIMPLE and fast program!

:o)  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  I can only see this being useful once.

I currently keep all my music on my iPod and only purchased music backed up on my hard drive. so I would only use extra once when I get a bigger hard drive and start keeping everything on both. until then I only want to extract one or two songs at a time.  
(Version 1.0)

SVEN-ERIK OLSSON  Excellent tool! I had my Powerbook HD damaged and was forced to reformat in order to use it as startupdisk. I could resque some file, but it was impossible to get it running without a complete reformat (including zeroing). Well there went my iTunes library (but thanks to Ollie/´s iPod Extractor/ I´m back and Byrne is streaming out latin rock). A simple interface and clear instructions. It´s not Apple-magic but it gets the job done and it helped me circumvent the traps Apple applied to comfort RIAA and the greedy crowd.

It does what it promises to do, so I rate features top though it really is not feature rich. But there You go, remember Open Doc. Lots of promises and then they scrapped it.  
(Version 3.0)

ANONYMOUS  i can not extract songs from ipod and i want now why.  
(Version 3.0)

ANONYMOUS  Before i download this, does it work with old versions of ipods?   
(Version 3.0)

ANONYMOUS  Plug in your ipod, Click extract, Choose your Ipod, choose the destination folder and thats it besides you cant beat the price! FREE!  
(Version 2.1)

GEOFF PADO  Good job! I've seen better, but as a fellow amateur developer, you get my respect. I salute you, Ollie.  
(Version 2.1)

ANONYMOUS  Just wait a week or so and then release a new version that has tons of fixes and it's the way you want instead of creating new releases every day.  
(Version 2.1)

OLLIE  Alright, everything has been fixed. If yours is not working correctly just re-download. 1.0 is now working but a 1.01 update will be posted to reflect the change.  
(Version 1.0)

CASEY  Awesome app! Works great, simple to use, and great idea.   
(Version 1.0)

OLLIE  Well damn. This script worked with my iPod, but my friend, and another friend said it wasn't working with theirs. Please be patient as I try to fix this by tonight.  
(Version 1.0)