Unless you have the tools, time and the knowledge to recover your data, pay $60, it's cheaper.

They will probably remove the storage (HDD or SDD, depending on the model), run a data recovery program (I would use testdisk) and copy the data for another drive. You could do it yourself with some effort.

Pros: you save $60. You learn a new tool.
Cons: you can damage the ipod, damage the storage, destroy the files instead of recovering them.

Mauro
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Em sex., 23 de set. de 2022 às 12:06, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> escreveu:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 11:38:31PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> ..okay perhaps we were not speaking of it yet, but why not start? smiles.
> Seriously, here is the situation.
> While I did indeed manage to properly charge this iPod, my visit to
> Irepair.ca, location around the corner on college, in a building I never
> plan to entre again..certainly not in heels, shared the following.
> while the IPod could be fixed, it would cost $175 which is about what I paid
> for it new.
> While the IPod data could be recovered, it would cost $60, given the hours
> and hours and hours of music I have not even heard yet, likely worth it.
> But, there might be a better way.  I asked said Irepair.ca to send an email
> detailing the process, never hearing from them again.
> So, am opening up the question to the  more technically imaginative.
> is there a reasonable way to transfer IPod data from  an  unhappy IPod?

Do you know which model it is exactly?  After all I suspect some use
normal disks inside, some SSD, some soldered in place.  That would affect
what methods you could use to access the data.

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