Back up Itunes music

pillphil

I don't have itunes, so I'm unsure of the mechanics of it, but if a computer fails, can the music be removed from the hard drive and moved to another computer and reassociated with the itunes account or is there any DRM issues?

jamesd

It can be none but best to keep itunes backed up before the computer fails.

Armonline

The is no DRM on iTunes music

scruffmonkey

It's also worth noting that anything you've bought from the iTunes music store can be re-downloaded to a new machine if you need to replace your current system and you lose the contents.

cjlawlor

iTunes Match is worth a look of you are concerned about backups - it basically matches what it can of your music library with items sold through iTunes, uploads everything else and then allows you to access/download everything on other devices. The track limit is 25000 and it costs €24.99 a year. Google music is free and does fairly much the same thing. The track limit for Google music is 20000 songs.

pillphil

Cheers, so I should be able to copy it onto a new hard drive with out any issues?

Zcott

Yep.

Piliger

pillphil wrote: »

Cheers, so I should be able to copy it onto a new hard drive with out any issues?

You CAN copy the iTunes music folder to any other HD. Later, if a disaster happens to your PC, you can just import back into iTunes.