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Post by Blonde Donkey on Nov 7, 2010 9:42:39 GMT
how the monkeys bum do I do it? Have bought a new laptop but I can't seem to be able to move my Itunes library. Could anyone talk me through it please. Thanks  |
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Post by Jen on Nov 7, 2010 21:08:40 GMT
i somehow managed to back everything up to a dvd (holds more than a cd you just cant play it in a cd player) and then put it into my laptop and itunes did the rest. however that was over three years ago and a very old version of itunes so not sure how to do it now.
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Post by spotti on Nov 8, 2010 8:41:54 GMT
You should (I say should lol) be able to find the folder containing all of your iTunes music outside of iTunes and be able to copy and paste it to your new laptop. Obviously you'd need to either connect the laptops via a cable, or copy stuff onto an external memory disk (USB memory stick, external hard drive, DVD etc) and then put the external memory into the new laptop and copy it from there. That sounds confusing (and I wrote the darn thing!). Right, basically you should be able to do it this way (depending on what your computer runs with - mine is Windows XP - so something else might be a bit different, but it should be similar...as long as its not an Apple Mac! I have nooooooooooooo idea how to do those thing  ). * Open My Documents. * Click on My Music. * Click on the folder named iTunes (you might have other music in there alongside the iTunes folder, but it should be in there somewhere). * Open the folder iTunes Media. * You might have one or two folders in here. Mine has Automatically Add To iTunes (which is where I save all of my music to now, to save having to import them all individually to the library) and Music. Try opening both. Whichever has the most music in, copy that one to your external memory. If you have lots of music in both and the music is different for both folders, copy both! * Once copied, unplug your external memory and plug it into your new laptop. * Open the external memory on new laptop. Selcet all music and tell the computer to copy it. * (I'm assuming you've already downloaded iTunes to the new laptop), go to My Documents and open My Music and then the iTunes folder. * Click on Automatically Add To iTunes and paste the copied music here. Ta da! Now you should have your old iTunes library on your new computer (if it doesn't work, try again. If still nothing, resort to the old school time-consuming method of copying individual songs/cds one by one ) |
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Post by mossh on Nov 8, 2010 10:50:40 GMT
Just be careful of itunes 7 (their latest one) its a little bit temperamental for a few people at the minute. Took me all day to sort it out and now it seems to be working. Although at one point it was systematically going through the songs on my playlist and saying it couldn't play them for whatever reason :\
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Post by Blonde Donkey on Nov 9, 2010 16:35:21 GMT
Thanks guys I did the CD/DVD thing and it worked yay. Though I now have a load of music that I thought I had deleted (tweenies theme and achy breaky heart, one hell of a shock when that came on in lesson this morning |
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