I needed to get all my songs off my ipod, which I was able to successfully do with one of the many freeware apps out there designed to do that. However, it didn't get my playlists. Some of the apps out there can't get them for some reason, one of them spouts the reason as being my ipod is corrupt, yet it seems just fine to me. Also, I tried a shareware app that could read the playlists just fine, I just hate to pay a lot of money to get my playlists. Is there any other option? Thanks!