Copy music from your iPod to your Mac or PC

Your computer hard drive crashed and now all your precious music is trapped on that little white iPod of yours. Fear not: you can copy music from an iPod back to a computer, even if Apple won't tell you how. To do it manually, you'll need to turn on iPod Disk Mode from within iTunes, then enable Windows Explorer (or Finder for Mac users) to see hidden files; then just copy away as usual. Alternately you can use a non-Apple third party application like iPodRip, YamiPod or Senuti. We've covered this ground before but this technique always bears repeating in the name of saving music. Wired's HOWTO wiki runs down the steps.