Transferring songs from Itunes

Onecoolcookie

So basically I'm the proud owner of a shiny new macbook, what's the easiest way of transferring all my songs from my old windows 7 laptop to my macbook?

drunkmonkey

Stick them all on a hard drive or something and open iTunes and just drop the file in. It's that easy.

Get yourself Transmission;)

Greentree_uk

It's better than that. Copy your itunes folder from your PC (it's in your Music folder) into the music folder on the mac and it should bring across playlists and music. (provided Itunes was setup to copy the music to its own folder.

whiterebel

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449

PC Link is on the same page.

robert muldoon

i have a new laptop(not a Mac) I installed my itunes account on it, the problem is that i have all my music in the library but it wont play.I get a tab up saying ' song could not be used because the original file cold not be found' then it asks me do i want to locate ,this brings folders that do nothing

can i someway activate my music library or delete it from the laptop and transfer on to a usb device from my pc and transfer it over that way

Sad Professor

robert muldoon wrote: »

i have a new laptop(not a Mac) I installed my itunes account on it, the problem is that i have all my music in the library but it wont play.I get a tab up saying ' song could not be used because the original file cold not be found' then it asks me do i want to locate ,this brings folders that do nothing

can i someway activate my music library or delete it from the laptop and transfer on to a usb device from my pc and transfer it over that way

See here for how to transfer your iTunes library over from your old computer:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751

robert muldoon

Sad Professor wrote: »

See here for how to transfer your iTunes library over from your old computer:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751

thanks for speedy reply
but is there any way i can activate the songs that are already there
there are 1400 of them

whiterebel

robert muldoon wrote: »

thanks for speedy reply
but is there any way i can activate the songs that are already there
there are 1400 of them

On the Mac, when you double click on the song, and go look for it, it asks if you wish to find others. It may take a good few goes, but AFAIK, its the only way to do it.

robert muldoon

whiterebel wrote: »

On the Mac, when you double click on the song, and go look for it, it asks if you wish to find others. It may take a good few goes, but AFAIK, its the only way to do it.

i dont have a mac

can i sync music from my i touch on to my laptop itunes library?

milltown

Pardon the mini hijack but it's kind of related:

Is it still the case that an iPhone/pod can only be synched to one iTunes account?

First off, I have an iMac and a MBP and I'd like to have the itunes libraries on both synched. For example when both are in Airdrop (is that what it's called?) range on the network at home, that I could sync them so that music bought, downloaded or made on one would be added to the other. If not that simple, if I had a time capsule set up, could it be used as a repository for itunes on both computers? Or would it just be for backing up to, not from?

Secondly, I have an ipod classic, an ipod shuffle and an iphone. Can it be set up so I can sync to either computer. At the moment, if I sync on one computer, the next time I plug into the other it wants to delete everything off the device first.

Apologies if the questions are ridiculous but I've been resisting itunes for too long and nowadays it might be the best solution for managing a few hundred gigs of music across five different Apple devices.

Both Macs are up to date with snow leopard and latest itunes updates installed, if that matters.