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Have you accidentally deleted some of your favorite songs from your iPod? Most of iPod users come across such annoying situations not once but many times. In some other instances, your iPod disk may get corrupt, resulting again in data loss situations. Accidents can strike anytime, therefore it is very essential for you to be aware of appropriate recovery methods. Going through the grind again and recovering data seems like a herculean task as it eats up a lot of time and efforts. Fortunately, there are many iPod recovery software available which recover the deleted or lost iPod data in a less time consuming fashion.
How an iPod stores data
An iPod disk saves the songs, videos and other digital files just like a computer's hard drive does. It never erases anything permanently. When a file is deleted, though the iPod disk marks the space as available but the content remains intact. You can retrieve data from your iPod before the data gets overwritten. It is also essential for you to act immediately lest you lose the only opportunity to recover data.
What you should not do
Since you have an opportunity to recover your valuable iPod data, you should refrain from practices which may damage the prospects of recovery. Therefore, if you really want to recover the deleted or lost data, do not download or upload your iPod with any new files (be it songs, graphics, audiobooks etc) under any circumstances.
Rely on a third-party software
There is no utility provided by Apple to recover lost or deleted data from iPod. Hence, you have to search for an efficient and reliable third-party iPod recovery software to do the job for you. Such utilities are available in numbers over the Internet which vouch to recover your lost or deleted iPod data if it still has not got over-written.
iPod recovery utilities recover data from a crashed iPod, corrupt iPod or frozen iPod. Even if you have lost data after encountering an iTunes error or any other error, a software can work for you. Still wondering how to go about it? Download a software, install it on your computer and your iPod data will be re-stored in the original form.
Stellar Phoenix iPod recovery is a do-it-yourself and safe software which recovers lost iPod data songs, videos, graphics, photos, text documents etc from both iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle models. The iPod recovery application recovers all audio (MIDI, AIFF, M4A, WMA) and video (AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV, MP4) formats.
