Extracting

How to Extract Audio Files From an iPod

Prerequisites: The iPod should have the fully recorded oral test saved on its hard drive.

Step 1 Plug all of the iPods back into the Power Station. The charging cables must have the orange circle with a B inside on the same side as the screen of the iPod. If the Power Station is plugged in to a wall socket, the iPods will turn on and start charging once plugged in, otherwise, they will simply stay off.

Step 2 Look at the back panel of the Power Station (the side with the black handle). There should be 3 cables and a switch on it.

Step 3 Take the thicker cable with the orange tag on it and unravel it completely. You must unravel it completely so that if the iPods need to be accessed, the door can be opened and not strain the cables.

Step 4 Plug the thick cable into the nearest outlet.

Step 2 Open the front of the Power Station (the side without the black handle) by sliding up the silver door.

Step 3 Take the laptop out of the Power Station and place it on top of the cart.

Step 4 Take the laptop power cable out of the Power Station and plug it in to the wall socket.

Step 5 Plug the other end into the computer in the farthest left port on the left side of the laptop. This end of the cable is magnetic, so if you get it close enough to the correct port, it will connect by itself. There is also a LCD light on this end of the power cable. This light glows orange when the laptop's battery is not yet full, but it is charging. When the battery is fully charged, the light will turn green. Do not disconnect the cable when the light turns green, since the cable counteracts the battery drain that using it causes.

Step 6 Open the computer lid.

Step 7 If the computer is not on, press the power button above the top-right corner of the keyboard.

Step 8 Once the computer starts up, go around to the back of the Power Station and slide up the door.

Step 9 If the class recorded their oral tests on the iPods in the upper drawer of the Power Station, completely unravel the upper of the 2 thinner USB cables on the back of the Power Station and plug it into one of the Laptop's 2 USB slots.

Step 10 After plugging in the USB cable, return to the back of the Power Station and flip the switch from **OFF** to **RESET**. If the switch is flipped to **RESET** and the Power Station is plugged in to an outlet, an orange light will turn on from behind the switch.

IF THE POWER STATION IS NOT PLUGGED IN, MAKE SURE THAT THE SWITCH IS ALWAYS SET TO **OFF**.

Step 11 Once the Power Station is plugged in, on, and connected to the Laptop, you should hear several beeps emanating from the cart, these are just the sounds that the iPods make to notify you that they are connected to a computer.

Step 12 When the computer starts to recognize the iPods, it will immediately open iPhoto to import their photos. If you did not plan to save or edit any photos on the iPods, simply exit the iPhoto window.

Step 13 If iTunes did not automatically open, click on the picture of the blue music note on top of a CD at the bottom of the screen (For Mac users: open iTunes from the dock).

Step 14 At this stage, you must wait for 1-2 minutes, because iTunes must update, resync, and copy all of the new information (including your voice notes) off of the iPods and on to its Hard drive.

Step 15 Once iTunes has finished syncing all of the iPods, the icon next to each iPod's name in the Left-Hand Navigation (the rectangle on the left side of the window that has the names of the iPods and links to different sections of iTunes) will change from being 2 swirling arrows to being a small triangle above a line.

IF YOUR IPOD IS NOT SET UP TO SYNC NEW VOICE MEMOS FROM A SPECIFIED PLAYLIST, CLICK HERE.

Step 16 Scroll to the bottom of the Left-Hand Navigation until you see blue icons that are pieces of paper with a music note on them. These are playlists. Click on the name of the playlist called **Voice Memos**. All of the Voice Memos recorded on the iPods are kept here. (They are also visible in the Music Library, but so are other unnecessary music files.)

Step 17 After opening the playlist Voice Memos, you will see a large list of files whose names are dates and times (e.g. 11/2/09 2:11 PM). Above the list of file names, there is a tan rectangle that says Name. Click on it and the files will chronologically organize themselves.

Step 18 Find the group of files that were recorded on the day of your oral test (The file's names are the dates and times on which they were recorded).

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