Yet another iPod manager - Home. Ml_ipod: Love iPod, Hate iTunes. SharePod. How-to: get music, video, and photos off your iPod or iPhone (Windows) Know Your Models: The difference between iPhone / iPod touch and other iPod models Until iPhone and iPod touch came along, all of Apple's media players connected with computers much in the same way as external hard drives: once plugged in, it had no control of its own.
That makes media extraction actually pretty easy, as long as you know where to look. Unfortunately, the iPhone and iPod touch are a different story.