The Cat 3 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Greetings from the techincally challenged. Today's dumb question is... How Do I Get My ITunes Library From my old PC To my new PC? Many thanks for any help from one who is afriad of losing 25,000 plus songs. http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/4xU-rJNgoWU/default.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 If all of your music is in one place (you haven't changed the defaults and imported from myMusic folder, just copy and paste that folder onto your external drive, put it into another computer and direct iTunes to the itunes folder in mymusic. I recommend putting the copied folder in the same location on the new computer. Meaning just copy the contents into the new computer's mymusic folder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 So just to be super clearCopy your music folder and all of its contents. Copy that to the new PC in the same location (make sure it's not mymusic/mymusic, copy the contents of that folder in there so that all locations are the same) If this is the first time running iTunes on the new computer, I think it will ask you to import your library (I'm not sure with the new, stripped down clean version of the program (goto step 5) If not, click file/little button thingy and go to preferences, advanced Set the default folder to mymusic/iTunes and it should import everything as isNOTE: the last time I did this was before the new restricted version of iTunes. If all else fails and you only want your music, just throw everything into a folder, put that somewhere on the new computer, click import folder and select that folder (don't double click it, select and then press the okay/open button on the window. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedRush Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 So just to be super clearCopy your music folder and all of its contents. Copy that to the new PC in the same location (make sure it's not mymusic/mymusic, copy the contents of that folder in there so that all locations are the same) If this is the first time running iTunes on the new computer, I think it will ask you to import your library (I'm not sure with the new, stripped down clean version of the program (goto step 5) If not, click file/little button thingy and go to preferences, advanced Set the default folder to mymusic/iTunes and it should import everything as isNOTE: the last time I did this was before the new restricted version of iTunes. If all else fails and you only want your music, just throw everything into a folder, put that somewhere on the new computer, click import folder and select that folder (don't double click it, select and then press the okay/open button on the window. Will these steps ensure that he keeps his rankings of the songs and playlists? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 If it still works as it did in version 8, yes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 Wow, thanks so much...I knew there were some brains here that function at a higher leve l than mine here on TRF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Not higher function, just more experience with the software. I don't blame you for having trouble figuring this out on iTunes. The latest version is a mess for anyone who tried to do more than import things and play them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus 2112 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Different iTunes issue. I restored my iPod via iTunes and now whenever it's plugged the iPod will say connected and it will show up in My Computer. Yet iTunes won't recognize it and instantly freezes when it's plugged in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Different iTunes issue. I restored my iPod via iTunes and now whenever it's plugged the iPod will say connected and it will show up in My Computer. Yet iTunes won't recognize it and instantly freezes when it's plugged in.Try this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1369 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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