To find your firmware with the Settings app: Open the Settings app on your home screen. You can easily find your device's firmware from the Settings app on the home screen.
As you are recovering media files, select Recover Files option from the main screen, and then choose your iPod from the list of available drives and click Scan button to proceed further with the recovery process as shown in. We have also covered a couple of commercial apps that will help you manage your iPod data without iTunes.