Get your music off your iPod.
Your ratings, your play counts, your playlists — merged into your library on your Mac.
Reading only. Nothing on the iPod is changed, moved, or erased.
What it does
Brings the history too
Ratings and play counts come off the iPod with the music and merge into what you already have — not just the files.
Never writes to your iPod
A rescue is read-only. The iPod holds exactly what it held before you plugged it in, and Lathe says so before and after.
A librarian, not a player
Lathe organises and moves your music. It doesn't stream it, sell it, or ask you to keep paying for it.
Editions
Get everything off a supported iPod — music, ratings, play counts, artwork. Complete, not a trial.
Put music back on the iPod and manage the library: playlists, smart playlists, tags and artwork, duplicates, format conversion.
Self-hosted servers, gathering your music into one folder, and several iPods remembered at once.
One-time purchase. Nothing renews, and no version ever stops working. Standard is licensed for one Mac, Pro for up to three — moving to a new Mac means copying one file.
Launching this fall
Lathe is in testing on real hardware now. If you want to know when it's ready, send me a note — no list software, no newsletter, just an email when it ships.
hello@lathe-app.commacOS 14 Sonoma or later · works with click-wheel iPods · rescue supports every model Lathe recognises, Classic included