iPod My iPod needs to be restored

[petrucci666]

Sorry for the stupid thread title, I didn't know how to exactly describe my problem.

So here's the story, I have a 5G iPod classic 30GB and it's been serving me well since 2006. I haven't dropped it much, battery is stable and all the good things. All in allm, it works perfectly fine.

This summer (like 3 months ago) I plugged it into my Mac to transfer some new songs and all of a sudden a got a message in iTunes (see attachment)

I've never gotten it before but I just figured I'd restore the iPod (format it) and copy all the songs from iPod_Control to my Mac and then copy them again to the iPod...ONE FOLDER AT A TIME!!!

A couple of days ago, my Ipod crashed again (out of nowhere) and now I have to restore it again!

This process was tedious and I really don't want to go over it again, so is there any way to do this with an app or something?

Thanks

 

[jmann]

Why are you copying it back to your computer? Isn't all your music in your iTunes so you can just sync it back?

 

[petrucci666]

Because I've switched through 3 laptops in the past 3 years (all of which have a different music collection) and my iPod is a collection of music from all 3, plus numerous friends computers and songs from their computers

 

[jmann]

Then use senuti, and consolidate it onto one computer.

 

[petrucci666]

You don't get it...the iPod needs to be restored, meaning that my iPod doesn't have any songs that can be listened to from the iPod directly, it shows 0 songs...but the songs still exist in the root folder...it hasn't been formatted per se but it is acting like it has been erased...Senuti won't help me in this matter

I need a program that would transfer the songs from my root folder to my iPod