How do I transfer music form itunes from one computer to another?

Question

I bought a new mac and want to transfer all my music from the itunes on my old pc to my new mac. Anyone know how???

Answer 1

1. Put it all on a portable hard drive and transfer the library. You can also put it on multiple blank CD-Roms or DVD-Roms and then have the mac itunes add it to the library, but that may be a pain if you have a large collection. IF you use the disc route, change your settings to save songs as data files and not music files. otherwise you will only get about 10-15 songs per disc. In data format, you can download over 4 GB of music onto a DVD-Rom.

iTunes is only set up to burn to disc, so to use your hard drive, you will simply have to do it manually, by going to your iTunes library and manually telling it to copy to the portable hard drive.

2. Buy third-party "iPod backup" software that allows you to backup the songs to your mac. This may not work, because your iPod is formatted for a windows computer. You will have to reset your iPod to run off of Mac as well. Do NOT do this until you have ensured you have been able to move the music successfully.

I just did this about 4 months ago.

Don't delete the windows iTunes library until you are absolutely sure you ahve everything moved over. Mine is still on my PC and my portable hard drives as back ups.

Remember you have to authorize the new computer ot be a user as well to play your purchased music. iTunes only let's you have up to 5 authorized computers. Eventually you can de-authorize your PC.

Answer 2

If ALL of your music was bought from iTunes, just download iTunes on your new computer and sign in with your pre-existing name. Then go at the top to Store and click on Authorize Computer.

Then sync your iPod and it will give you the option of transferring all your purchases onto your new computer. ONLY CLICK YES IF YOU BOUGHT ALL THE MUSIC FROM ITUNES!!

If you did NOT get it all from iTunes (like from CDs or LimeWire or whatever), then go to this website:

http://deadpoetscave.com/2006/12/copying-music-from-an-ipod-to-a-computer-pc-windows

It'll give you a step-by-step instruction of how to enable your iPod for disk use to get all the songs from it to your computer. It's really easy and safe and you don't even have to download anything!

Good luck!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I think you can you use a USB thumb drive thing...my brother did at least