I-Tunes, purchased songs, can they be transfered to memory stick?

Freiheit · 23-03-2010 6:32pm #1

Was just wondering what happens to my songs if my hard-drive or computers dies? more songs in my library than there is capacity on the I-Pod

spoongibbon · 23-03-2010 9:01pm

Yes, you can copy your iTunes library to any external storage you like. You can drag and drop the whole folder or just select which tracks you'd like to back up right from the iTunes window.

guil · 23-03-2010 9:05pm

spoongibbon wrote: »

Yes, you can copy your iTunes library to any external storage you like. You can drag and drop the whole folder or just select which tracks you'd like to back up right from the iTunes window.

can that backup be used with another itunes though,
i use sharepod, its free and can copy 1 or all the songs from ur ipod to wherever u want on a pc or ext hd

spoongibbon · 23-03-2010 9:53pm

Older iTunes tracks contain DRM which prevent them being used on more than 4 machines (I think) - all iTunes tracks you buy now do not contain DRM and so can be passed from machine to machine freely. The OP didn't mention using them on a different machine though, just backing up tracks on his own machine.

Freiheit · 23-03-2010 9:55pm

well my machone is 4 years old and has had 2 hard drive transplants in that time.....so really need to have some means of backing them up...a memory stick should be fine by dragging the library file?

spoongibbon · 23-03-2010 9:59pm

Yes, it'll be fine.

I-Tunes, purchased songs, can they be transfered to memory stick?

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