Formatted MP3: How to recover erased .mp3 songs under Mac OS X?
"I accidentally formatted my MP3 player on friend's virus-infected computer, the file folder holding all of the latest MP3 files which I have download for too much time was missing. How do I recover all of my MP3s after formatted without re-downloading them? about 600 songs!"
Maybe you also have encountered such a problem as mentioned above, It's OK to download it again or copy it from other place while it is free to available. But most of MP3 files are limited with the copyright and rare to download, and some of the MP3 files are exclusive records.
Most people think formatting is a complete method to erase files on portable media players, after formatted, all media files in it wil be non-recovable. In fact formatted MP3 files are still have chance to be recovered unless you have added new files into your MP3 player.
You need a media data recovery tool like Disk Doctors Photo Recovery software, its own block-by-block search mechanism supports all major file formats that is employed to ensure the MP3 file recovery from your formatted MP3 player.
In addition, it can scan and recover all MP3 files from formatted MP3/MP4 players, Mac hard drive, usb drive, including iPod series.
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Note: We recommend that you download the evaluation version first which will give you first hand experience to try and test before purchasing. The demo version would display all the data which can be recovered, to recover you would need to purchase full version.
Why choose Disk Doctors Photo Recovery for Mac
Risk-free MP3/MP4 player data recovery software on Mac
- Supports recovering files lost due to accidental deletion or corruption of storage media.
- Supports recovery from formatted MP3/MP4 players, Mac hard drives, digital camera memory cards, Firewire flash drives, etc.
- New! Ability to preview files before recovery (RAW photo file preview available).
- New! Recover music files in compressed form (Zip format, to unzip software like WinZip or similar product should be installed).
- New! Scan digital data by various file formats:
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BMP, PNG, TIF, TIFF, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PSD |
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CR2, CRW (Canon), DNG (Samsung, Pentax etc), RAF (Fuji), 3FR (Hasselblad), DCR, K25, KDC (Kodak), RAW (Leica), MRW (Minolta), NEF (Nikon), ORF (Olympus), RAW (Panasonic), PEF (Pentax), X3F (Sigma), ARW, SR2 (Sony) |
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MP3, MP4, WAV, MIDI, M4B, M4A, AIFF, AIF, AIFC, RA |
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AVI, MP4, MOV, MPEG, MPG, M4V, 3G2, 3GP, RM |
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Guides: How to recover MP3 files from a formatted MP3 player?
This comprehensive Photo recovery software can recover your lost, deleted, formatted even damaged digital media file.
Please follow the steps below to recover MP3 files from a formatted MP3 player with Disk Doctors Photo Recovery software on Mac.
Step 1. Run MP3 music recovery software.
Run Disk Doctors Photo Recovery for Mac software, by double clicking on application icon from the 'Applications' folder or the location where the software has been installed. Program main Window will be displayed as shown in the Figure (a).
Figure (a). Program main Window |
Step 2. Choose MP3 type.
Select the MP3 player which you want to recover MP3 files from and click on "Next" button to proceed. The program displays a Window to select file types that you wish to recover.
By default all the file types will be selected. Click on "Deselect all" button and select MP3 audio type which you wish to recover and click on "Recover" button as shown in Figure (b).
Figure (b). Select required file formats |
Step 3.
Scan MP3 type files on MP3 player for Mac.
Once you have opened MP3 player flash memory and selected the file formats, application starts scanning your selected drive as shown in Figure (c). Please wait till the process is completed.
Figure (c). Scanning progress |
As soon as the application completes the scanning process, the recovered data/file will be analysed and displayed in a well organized data tree as shown in Figure (d).
Figure (d). Recovered data tree |
Step 4. Recover MP3 from formatted MP3 player to Mac.
You can now save the recovered media files in order to complete recovery process. Select the songs you wish to save and click on save button.
Specify a safe location to initiate saving process. Shown in Figure (e).
Figure (e). Specify safe destination location for saving |
Please Note: In order to save your recovered data, you need to purchase and activate the full version. Saving option will not work in demo version.
It might take a while depending on the size of the MP3 player flash memory. The bigger it is, the longer it will take to complete scanning. As long as you do not take any more data on the MP3 player, you are able to recover all the deleted files. The concept is actually the same as recovering photos from bad flash memory on Mac.
Order it now! A perfect cure for inevitable misses!
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Thank you! It is nice to deal with professionals! In spite of my PC being re-imaged, having several applications installed and being used daily for about a week, your product was able to recover most of my lost files!"
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