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Music Rescue

Music Rescue

iPod music copier & playlist rebuilder.

Version:  4.0.8

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Looks pretty but functionality limited...

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Tolga Sunday, November 12 2006 @ 10:19 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

I downloaded this for a specific problem. I accidentally deleted a playlist from iTunes and wanted to restore it from my iPod. Seems simple, this program is supposed to be able to do this, so I gave it a shot.
Well the documentation is really intended for people looking to restore their whole libraries from their iPod, music and all, which is fine. However don't thrown in a few meager bits about restoring a Playlist and then say this thing can "restore" a playlist. From much trying and mucking about with this program I could only get the playlist I wanted back by allowing the app to re-copy all the songs to my library. Fair enough, following the help files I would just tell it to 'skip' all my files (since they are all still in my library) and simply allow it to re-create the one playlist I wanted out of about 25 I have. Well unlike the docs it didn't offer to skip, it appended a 1 to each filename and copied all the songs back to my library. It also copied all my other *unselected* playlists so that I now had 2 of all of them. There was no way to link the playlist to my *old* files so when I deleted the new copies of songs it cleared my playlist.
Long story short, not the util forrestoring playlists unless they improve the docs, make steps more clear and straighten out functionality of this app.
It is a nice looking program that seems capable but if it can't do things you are offering it for maybe spend more time on the basics. Also good luck finding the contact email for the programmer.   
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2 comments |

Looks pretty but functionality limited... - shish1

Senuti is an excellent tool for copying music from an iPod, and would work perfectly if you just wanted to copy one playlist.

I went to the website for Music Rescue and found the contact info from the developers by clicking: About Us -> Staff -> Contact Us. Pretty simple.

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Wednesday, January 17 2007 @ 11:12 AM PST


Looks pretty but functionality limited... - Laraine Anne Barker

If I accidentally deleted a playlist from iTunes on my Mac I would retrieve it from my backup rather than my iPod.

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Monday, July 28 2008 @ 11:18 AM PDT