I've found a lot on the web about being able to manage your iPod through Ubuntu. Is it possible to take songs off the ipod onto disk in a usable form, as my song drive has crashed1 and that's the only back up I have.

The closest [question](https://askubuntu.com/questions/146934/copy-music-from-ipod-to-ubuntu) I found has the answer using gtkpod (Same with [this](https://askubuntu.com/questions/38784/how-do-i-copy-music-from-ipod-nano-to-computer-banshee) one), but looking in the software centre reviews, that seems busted in 12.04 and I don't want to throw something buggy at my iPod. 

If it makes a difference, it's an iPod classic.

1Yes, I know I should have been taking regular back ups to either the cloud or another disk.