How to Transfer Music from iPad to iPod

Listening to the fair-sounding songs is an enjoyable experience on a sunny afternoon. However, it's not convenient to listen to music with a relatively big iPad, comparing with iPod in size. With the light and easy to hold iPod, it would be a nice choice to enjoy the music anywhere you like. If you want to share some of your iPad music with your iPod, you can get two methods here in this iMobie guide.

Method 1: Transfer Music from iPad to iPod without iTunes

This is the first method that we'll use to get music from iPad to iPod. And the tool we'll use is a comprehensive iPhone/iPad/iPod content transfer & manager – AnyTrans, with which, we can quickly export and import music between two iDevices without erasing any data on both of the deivces. Below are the simple steps to use this method to transfer iPad songs to iPod.

Step 1. Download and install AnyTrans on your computer > Run AnyTrans and connect your iPad and iPod to computer.  Go to the iPad manage page, and click button to manage your iPhone content by categories.

Step 2. Go to the iPad manage page > click on "Audio" > Select "Music" to enter the music window.

Step 2. Select Audio and choose Music.

Step 3. Choose the songs you want to transfer, and click on the Send to Device button on the top-right of this window to start transferring.

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Note: This guide is also applied to sync music from iPod to iPhone, and the steps are almost identical.

How to Transfer Music from iPad to iPod with iTunes

This method only works for the songs you purchased from iTunes store.

Step 1. Launch iTunes, go to the Store menu and choose "Authorize This Computer".

Step 2. Enter the Apple ID you used to purchase the songs. Plug your iPad to the computer > Click "Files" > "Devices" > "Transfer purchases from iPad".

Step 3. Now you have transferred your iTunes purchases back to the iTunes library, then connect your iPod to the computer.

Step 4. Plug your iPod to sync the iTunes purchases to it.

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Note: It is to some extent time-consuming and complex to transfer purchases between two devices with iTunes, and it won't support directly transferring the non-purchased ones. To freely transfer your purchased and non-purchased songs from iPad to iPod without losing any data, I will show you the second method. And this method is also applied to transfer music from iPod to iPad.

The Bottom Line

AnyTrans can not only transfer music from your old iPad to iPod directly, it can also transfer movies, photos, videos and any other types of personal info and media data to your iOS device. Meanwhile, don't forget to share this guide to your friends. Take a tour with AnyTrans now.