Q: I have a new iPad 2. I have purchased music from the iTunes store and copied music from CDs that were downloaded from my home iBook. I wish to transfer them into my iTunes account on my work laptop. Can this be done without losing the music from the CDs?
- How To Move Itunes Library Onto New Mac
- How To Import Songs To Itunes
- How To Export Itunes Library To New Mac Account
The entire iTunes library includes Music, Ringtones, Moives, Podcasts, etc. Click on 'Start' to begin the process. Way 2: Move Particular Data in iTunes Library to New Mac. Different from method 1, method 2 allows you to preview the iTunes library before the process starts. Dec 11, 2017 One of the drawbacks of iTunes is the inability to export iPod contents iTunes library. Although it can smoothly export files from iTunes to your iDevices, there are many times and many situations that we need to transfer things from our iDevices to iTunes inversely.
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A: Yes. There are several ways that you can go about this, but the basic task is to copy the music from your home computer over to the work laptop. You can either do this directly using an external hard drive, network connection, or optical media such as recordable CDs or DVDs, or you can use the iPad 2 as an intermediate device.
It sounds like in this case you're dealing with a Mac at home and a Windows laptop at work, which makes the process a bit tricker, but still very doable. The problem is that iTunes stores full paths to every file in your library database, and because the file systems between Mac and Windows are fundamentally different, it's impossible for it to directly reference these files on the new computer, which may result in broken links.
The solution in this case is to use the 'Consolidate Files' option, which copies everything into the 'iTunes Media' folder. You can that iTunes Media folder over to the new computer preserving it's layout. When iTunes can't find a track in its specific location, it will fall back to looking for it in the location where it would normally place it by default. If the file is in that location, as it would be after a 'Consolidate' operation, iTunes will successfully find it and update the location to reflect its new Windows-based pathname.
This is all explained in much greater detail in our tutorial on Transferring your iTunes Library.
Alternatively, if you have all of the content on your iPad 2, you can simply copy it onto the work laptop from there. Purchased content can easily be transferred using the iTunes application, but you will need to rely on third-party tools to transfer the music you have ripped from your own CDs. See Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer for more information.
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Changed to a new computer and want to move the iTunes playlists to your new computer? Instead of recreating the playlist again from scratch, transferring it is quite easy and fast, especially when you have a large playlist. In this article, we share 2 easy ways to export iTunes playlists to new PC/Mac.
Method 1:Export iTunes Playlists to Computer with iTunes
In iTunes, you can easily move iTunes playlists to a new computer using the Export and Import function.
- Open iTunes on your old computer. Choose File > Library > Export Playlist.
Choose a location to save the file. You can use a USB flash drive if you have one. Finally select 'XML' as the format for your exported file. - Launch iTunes on your new computer. Click the 'File' menu, select 'Library' and click 'Import Playlist.' Navigate to the playlist XML file you exported and click 'Open' to add the playlist to the left iTunes menu.
How To Move Itunes Library Onto New Mac
Method 2: Transfer iTunes Playlists to New Computer with iTunes Match
For $24.99 a year, iTunes Match keeps your music synced across all your Apple devices and provides a web-based backup in case you lose music. You can easily transfer iTunes library and playlists to the new computer with iTunes Match.
How To Import Songs To Itunes
- Run iTunes and go to iTunes store. Enter you Apple ID and password and click on Add this computer.
- After you purchased the service, it will upload your iTunes songs to iCloud. Then click on Done option.
- Now you can see an icon of iCloud in the front of every song have matched and uploaded to iCloud.
- Go to your new computer, open iTunes and sign in to your iCloud account. In the Store menu, click Turn on iTunes Match. A listing of the music in your iCloud account will download to your new iTunes library.
How To Export Itunes Library To New Mac Account
That's all about how to copy iTunes playlists to a new computer. And if you need to transfer music from iPhone to your new computer, Tenorshare iCareFone can offer you a 1-click operation to finish it easily.
