How do I transfer my 1700 song iTunes library?

PLEASE HELP! I don't have a home computer, so when I got an iPod last year, I intalled iTunes on the c drive of my computer at work. I've never liked the idea of storing my songs at work, so I bought a 250 G external hard drive (the E drive). I want to be able to open iTunes and store everything on E. I clicked and dragged the iTunes icon from my C drive to the E drive, which didn't really move iTunes but rather made a copy of it. I deleted iTunes on my C drive, clicked on iTunes in E, and was shocked to see there were no songs -- it was completely empty! Luckily I was able to retrieve the deleted iTunes from the recycling bin, so it's now still on my C drive.

Is it possible to move iTunes to the E drive? If so, if you could walk me through this, I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

Well, I'm looking at the Mac version of iTunes and in the Preferences area, under "Advanced", there's a setting that lets you have your library anywhere. You should be able to use that to specify that you want it on the E: drive, then manually copy everything across and you should be good to go.

I have moved all my music, lectures, stories and movies onto a 0.5 TB drive on my new PC but whenever I ask iTunes to add D:\ to the library, it adds a bunch of directories then crashes.

I used to have separate network drives for music, stories, lectures, movies, etc. and had put a lot of work into many smart playlists. What I want to do is add everything again then delete all the exclamation-marked entries. However, iTunes forgets all the deletions each time I reboot. I keep spending hours deleting dead wood only to find it back in place next time. I have checked that my library files are not read-only. I went through the registry and found the drive to scan in background key and changed it to drive D:\ but this did not help. Windows set up system restore on D:\ as well as C:\. I was about to get rid of this, when I found the setting, but was warned that it was protecting the drive from such evil as may befall a big young SATA drive and was disuaded. It seems that iTunes chokes on different files each time rather than because it finds something particular that it doesn't like.

I an hoping to get a NAS with a firmware iTunes server. Do you know about these?

Pleae help.

Thanks for the tip on exporting to an external drive. Worked great. It beats putting my iTunes library on a bunch of disks!

I have a PC and my hard drive recently crashed and had to be replaced so I lost my itunes library. Luckily, I had most of my music on my ipod so I didn't lose that much but when I got my new computer I couldn't sync my ipod to my computer because it thinks that it's already connected to another one (even though that computer doesn't exist anymore.) When I connect my ipod to my computer it gives me the choice of erasing what is currently on my ipod and replacing it with my current itunes library but I don't want to do that because none of my music is on my computer; it's only on my ipod right now. I am wondering how I can sync my ipod to my computer so I can download music on my new computer and put it on my ipod along with my existing music.

My computer crashed and we had to get a whole new hard drive. All my music is on my ipod and I want to get that on my new hard drive but it wont let me. I don't know how to sync my ipod without losing the music that is already on there and then having to redownload it. What do I do?

Kimberly, check out ipodcopy if you're running a PC, or Senuti if you're on a Mac:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_get_songs_off_my_ipod.html

how can i put my ipod music back to my itune library...i accidently deleted my file. I hate to lose all my songs from my ipod........please help

I have microsoft windows. My face broke on my 30 gig ipod. I want to buy a new 30 gig but I don't want to spend the money on a new one if I can't take all the songs from my old one and put it on my new ipod. Is there anyway that you can take all of your songs from your ipod and put it on your itunes library with microsoft windows? I'd really appreciate it if anyone could help me with this. Thank you

help i got all my i tunes on my moms computer but my parents got divorced man so im at my dads full time and i want to put more songs my ipod but i have to get my itunes back and i dont know how to get the songs of my ipod to my itunesi tried some things i read of theinterent from you or other people and itworked but when i tried putting it on my itunes it stopped at bb king and nothing else would go on my itunes from the folder i have it in how do i fix that or is there any other way i can do it

Hey. I am over at my sisters house and I am trying to sync my ipod with her computer.The prob is that it will not let me. It does not say it can't, it doesnt say anything. How can i sync my ipod to my sisters computer and get the music from her i tunes to my ipod?

Melanie

if you're trying to download your iPod tunes onto a new computer, download a program called Senuti. It will allow you to do so, I'm sure there are others as well. I use transmission' as a bit torrent client.

I lost my hard drive on my computer. All songs were on an external hard drive and are usable. However I purchased a new computer and now can't find the libraries. If I open a song it gets added to itunes new library. Can I get the library, not songs from my ipod?

I have all my Itunes music on an external hard drive and now I bought a new computer not Mac and need to transfer it but can't get my playlist to transfer. windows xP

I have a problem tried to download from itunes to my ipod i get a message saying some of the items in the itune library were not copied because you are not authorized to play them from this computer. What does that mean? I've had my ipod for over a year and never had this problem

hi,
im 14 and my parents both have and ipod and my brother does to we save all our music to the same computer is there some way how i can keep my music in a diffrent library then the same library as my parents?

I really don't know what URL is. I have a inspiron 8100 Dell Laptop. I just purchased a 80 gb Classic ipod. I also purchased a seagate external hard drive. I would like to know how to transfer future itune to the E drive. I am incredibly old and unfortunatley not to bright with this technology. I would appreciate help; simplistic elementary help.
Thanks

I recently bough an 8GB nano second generation and right away i started to download music. but as itunes was transferring music from a cd, i only got the first five songs from it. the "help" for itunes is kind of vague. i'm going to keep tring stuff, but if anyone has an easier way, please email me.

ninjastealthypb@aol.com

Senior moment. Just re-read your advice. Mis-understood ipod copy. Assume mac can be ignored in this scenario and that the ipodcopy software you recommend executes only on a Microsoft PC and this accesses the IPOD directly.Please confirm and apologies.

Senior moment. Just re-read your advice. Mis-understood ipod copy. Assume mac can be ignored in this scenario and that the ipodcopy software you recommend executes only on a Microsoft PC and this accesses the IPOD directly.Please confirm and apologies.

i accidently put my itunes library in my documents. How can i put my itunes back into my library?

how can i put my itunes tunes on my computer onto a CD for my mom?

ok, This was very easy everyone. I just bought a new laptop. My old laptop had windows xp on it, my new laptop has windows vista on it. My itunes library has 38GB of music in it and about 300 playlists. This is what I did and it was very easy. Go to your my documents folder and find your music folder. In that folder you will find a folder called Itunes. I had a 500GB usb external drive that I used to move my music. I copeid the entire ITunes folder onto my USB Drive. Once I had everything copied I renamed it ITunes 1-12-08 I used the date to make a difference between my old file and the new Itunes folder on my new computer. You can call your file anything you want. Just rename it something. I plugged the USB into my new computer. I loaded a new version of Itunes onto the new computer. I than open my documents, my music, and than opened my Itunes folder. I copied the entire folder that I renamed of my old itunes into the Itunes folder on my new computer. After everything was copied, I opened Itunes up on the new computer. I went File, add folder to library, I browsed for my renamed folder that I copied into my Itunes folder My itunes musidc folder and told Itunes to import it. ALL of my old music was imported into my new itunes. All I had to do is click on a song and than authorize the new computer to play my music and that was all there was to it. To Get my playlists into my new Itunes I just went File, Add File to Library and Browsed for my renamed ITunes folder again and this time picked the file that says Itunes music library or Itunes library, This is not a music file it is a XML file, Add this file to your Itunes and it will import all of your playlists that were in your old library. That is all there is too it. It does not take very long. It is easier to do than what it sounds and everything is moved to your new computer, music, movies, podcasts, everything.
Thats it. No problem.

My last computer got hit by lightning and the people that fixed it reimaged it and I lost all my music. Now I have a new PC with vista and all But all my music is still on my 8GB nano. So I was wondering if anyone knows how I can sync my IPod to the new computer without losing all the music?

PLEASE HELP!!! I am dying without music !!!!

Thanks

i got a new ipod but want to keep the same library how do i transfer my songs on to my new ipod without erasing all of them

I am new to Ipod and Itunes. I have recently bought an external hard drive and want to move my music and etc. files to free free up space on my laptop. If I delete the music from my computer will they be deleted on my Ipod or will they stay on there?

i got a new ipod but want to keep the same library how do i transfer my songs on to my new ipod without erasing all of them

i have 1456 songs in my ipod and 7 songs in my itunes.
any way i could transfer songs from ipod to my itunes.
pleasee help =]

Sandy, you are the best!!! It totally worked!!!

i am about to buy a sony mp3 player and have an itunes purchased music library in my computer. none of the music is in mp3 format(i am assuming this point as i do not remember ever seeing itunes was selling the music to me that way). will i be able to transfer my libraray to this type of mp3 player? or does it have to be an mp3 file?

i ended up deleteing all my music on my itunes, but i still have it all on my ipod and i was wondering if anyone knows how i can sync my music into my itunes library without having to redownload it all again.......please help!!

Ok well i need help. My old computer had a virus so i had to reset all the memory, including my itunes library. So when i went to sync my ipod into the new computer it said my songs were protected and could not sync the in the new computer. I think my anti-virus has something to do with this. If it does not how can i unprotect my songs so i can sync them on my new itunes library and i also registered my ipod on my computer. So if anyone can help me with my problem i would be thankful.

I am absolutely frustrated.... for about 3 weeks now i've been trying to figure out how to move songs on my external hard drive to my itunes. When i click and drag that folder over i get 10,250 songs transferred, but i have 15,000!!! why are some of these songs not transferring???? i have to manually go into the external hard drive and select the songs to bring them over. This would take days on end to do this. I deleted all my xml and itl files so i had a problem opening up itunes. Finally, i decided to copy my brother's itl and xml files on his library which is on a different computer just so i could open itunes. I tried to transfer again and only the 10,250 songs transferred??? What should i do so i can get all 15,000 transferred onto my itunes?

I recently loaded ITunes 8.02 to buy some music. I use a PC with Windows XP. I bought one song to test the burn and it worked successfully. Then I tried to burn a full CD with some more songs that I bought and it froze my PC. After rebooting I can no longer burn a CD. I can still burn other things with Windows Media Player, but not the purchased music. I keep getting a an error that says my Disc Burner or Software not found. Ideas?

I guess there are no ideas about my problem out there. Well, this site is a waste of space then, ain't it?

Hi Please Help,

When I import songs from a cd to my itunes library
the order is reversed. For example songs 1 to 5 are imported as 5,4,3,2,1 . How do I correct this.

Thanks

i need to make space in my house. is it a good idea to transfer all my cds, couple of thousand, to my mac computer and ipod, and get rid of the discs. i have a back up machine.

i need to make space in my house. is it a good idea to transfer all my cds, couple of thousand, to my mac computer and ipod, and get rid of the discs. i have a back up machine.

My ipod was stolen. itunes is resident on my computer. No one can help me use the itunes library I created by burning all of my cd's and syncing with the ipod. It seems illogical that in a theft situation Apple can't override itself and allow the new ipod receive the existing itunes library. Can you help me?

Linda, I'm not sure why you're having a problem. The music that's on your computer is a "master" copy so anything that's there should be able to be copied onto a new iPod as long as you sync the iPod with the computer in the first place.

Try this (and, warning, this will erase anything you have already put on the iPod): hook up the iPod to your computer, start iTunes, then choose to "Restore" the iPod. It'll wipe its data clean then you can configure it to sync with your existing computer-based music library.

Problem solved! :-)

Hi, ive recently bought a new laptop & would like to know if i can put my itunes library from my main pc onto it AS WELL Ta

recently i have reinstalled the whole windows on my PC, before than that i was using tunes and have transferred videos n mp3 from PC to my I pod. But after reinstalling the windows i again installed the i tunes n then i tunes i not showing my achieves which i m having in my I pod so how could i transfer those items again on my PC please help me out.

Well ive still got all my music video's on my itunes libaray on the computer cause my music video's deleted themselve's on my ipod touch ' though they are still in my ipod libaray is there a way i could still get them back on to my ipod touch.
I haven't got the music video's on the computer just in the itune's section thats all.
I just wanted to know if I could get them back any way

Dave,
I signed up for itunes...while surfing, noticed itunes downloading my entire music library to their library....cannot find how to load it back the way it was...I did decline that option.
They do not have half the information on my albums, lost albums, etc.
I am not, as you can imagine, happy. Since they mix mashed all the songs together...not by album...nor have half the albums songs...well, so far as I can find. Oh, and no album covers...too old they say...they were ON the media player.

I had my itunes on my moms comuter for like 2 years, and it just recently crashed and the hard drive got fried- I had bought almost $400 dollars worth on itunes and all the songs are still on my ipod but I just wondering if there was a way I could transfer the songs back onto itunes once I get another computer or am I just basically SCREWED?

Recently had to restore my daughter's laptop with the recovery/rescue cd's and now she can't access her itunes library. How can we access the itunes library from the family's laptop? When I log into itunes, I get a download screen but nothing ever downloads. Songs were not saved on ipod. (Windows XP Home Edition 2002)

Hmmm... I suggest that first, you go to Store -> Authorize Computer to get anything that might have been purchased, then try File -> Add to Library... (there's a way to have it scan your computer for music libraries and files too, but I don't have an XP system in front of me right now)

Hi, im getting the ipod classic for my birthday which is replacing my ipod nano and i know that i'll need to download the new itunes 8.0 or something and i was wondering if it would delete all my songs on my library if i did download it. If so how could i keep them so that i dont have to download them all again. thanks

is there any way i can put the itunes library from my old computer onto my new one as well?

i had a problem wrong with my computer and i ended up having to clear out my entire hardrive. i downloaded itunes again and i loged in my acount. my library had no songs in it. i tryed to fix it but it just wouldnt work and i was wondering if there was a way i could get all my songs back into my library?? can u please help me out and send me an email because i really dont want to have to delete my songs just so i can download more onto my ipod. because when it is like this it doesnt let me download any songs. i get a pop-up that says the ipod is with another library, when it is not. then it ask me if i want to delete everything and download what i have but into my library afterwards (which is nothing cause the stupid computer deleted it). PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! HELP ME!! (this may be a little confusing but if u have any questions email me at cdmskooliokery@yahoo.com THANKS SOOOOOO MUCH!!

Hi Dave, well here goes..I moved my itunes library from my pc computer onto an external hard drive because I was lacking room. However my external hard drive crashed and died. I still have my music on my ipod.So how do I move all my music from my ipod back onto itunes without losing it? (itunes is still on the computer) And..I am out of room on my computer so I am going to have to move my itunes back onto the new external hard drive?...thanks..T

Therese, first off, don't panic. :-) You can use a variety of different tools to move the music off your iPod back onto your computer, as I detail here:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_get_songs_off_my_ipod.html

You can put that music wherever you want on your computer, and then you can go into the iTunes preferences and tell it where to look for the music. Should be straightforward!

i had authorized 2 computers out of the 5 i can authorize.
i have half my songs on 1 computer and 1 on the other.
i tried to sync my ipod and it asks me do i want to erase and sync my songs or transfer purchases. i dont want to lose my songs so i picked transfer purchases. it soon said cant transfer because my computer is not authorized. i deauthorized it and then authorized it again. i tried again and it said the same thing.

email me the answer to fadetoblack2948@ymail.com

my reacquiring problem trying to stream line Itune
Player when I go to all the trouble to make sure all albums and art work are there then to reload them I get the biggest mass the art work is missing
i have single tract apart from the album and so many duplicates so is there a way to get it straight and keep it that way My Itune has 4900 tracts my Pc music is piped thought the house and plays 24-7 so I need help can you do that for me please
I went to the apple store twice two different people and they looked at me like I was from outer space when i told them what I needed
Thanks Henry

I recently bought an external drive. I copy and paste my ITunes library files and music to my external drive. Can I delete my ITunes library from my C drive to free space? Thank you.

Hey, My laptop recently totally crashed and not in any way able to work again even with a new hard drive. all my music, photos and videos are stored on my iPod touch, but I want to know how to get them onto a new laptop. They weren't backed up, and I hadn't selected manage music manually. I have found a few explanations for songs, but nothing for podcasts, movies and photos. My iPod has the only copies of all these files. Help?! I really don't want to go through and buy/upload my whole 2000 songs back, not to mention the 300 podcasts, 50 movies and 1500 photos that i don't have another copy of. Please help me! Thanks for your time

Hi Dave,what was the answer to this buddy as I had the same problem
i had a problem wrong with my computer and i ended up having to clear out my entire hardrive. i downloaded itunes again and i loged in my acount. my library had no songs in it. i tryed to fix it but it just wouldnt work and i was wondering if there was a way i could get all my songs back into my library?? can u please help me out and send me an email because i really dont want to have to delete my songs just so i can download more onto my ipod. because when it is like this it doesnt let me download any songs. i get a pop-up that says the ipod is with another library, when it is not. then it ask me if i want to delete everything and download what i have but into my library afterwards (which is nothing cause the stupid computer deleted it). PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! HELP ME!! (this may be a little confusing but if u have any questions email me at cdmskooliokery@yahoo.com THANKS SOOOOOO MUCH!!

I have downloaded to my new hardware 1.5TB itunes from my laptop to make space on c' hardrive but when i open itunes on my laptop all the music from external hardware appear again on laptop itunes, i have followed instructions how to change it but it is still takeing space on hardrive c'.. can somebody help please? thanks robo

i have just bought a new laptop, is there anyway i can transfer all my itunes music to my new laptop from my old computer?

Hi Dave I am currently wanting to remove all programmes from my PC and re load to remove unwanted/unused programmes making it slow however I dont want to lose my Itunes is there anyway of keeping the songs on the IPOd and putting back onto PC once sorted?

Hi,
I lived in American Samoa and in a very short time, my computer crashed (scrapped!!) and I retired to Oregon. I have over 200 songs in my i-tune account, but I can't access them from my new e-mail address!!
Can anyone help me here? I have given up on getting any support from Apple except for run-a-rounds!!
Thanks,
Bill

I can't figure out how to transfer my music from
my Iomega USB external hard drive to my new
Samsung computer. What am I missing? Thanks.

Hi Dave,
My hard drive crashed nd itunes gave me my one time re download. I backed everything up of about five 4gb DVDs. Im transfered the library to the new laptop, but it wont let me authorize it cuz it cant access the itunes store. This happened 2 my older laptop and i fixed it by moving it to a new user. Thats not working now so wat do i do? (The older one is an XP, newer is a vista)

I had a laptop with windows 7 on I had an Ipod account which I lost when my laptop got dropted. I have replaced it with a notepad with windows xp is there any way I can find my old account or do I have to start another

Dave, I do appreciate all the help you provide to everyone. This probably is VERY easy for you but not for me. I need to move a purchased song from the "purchased" list to the main itunes library list. My intent is to upload the song to CutMP3 so that I can edit it as a ringtone for my cellphone. When I try to access the itunes list from the CutMP3 website, the purchased song isn't there. It is only on the "purchased" list which doesn't show up on the main list of itunes songs. Help!

Hi Dave,

Like a a lot of the postings here, my hdd crashed. I was running XP at the time. I didn't loose my music as it was on an external USB HDD. I have two issues:

Being a visual person all of my music was catalogued with proper (and some times rare) album cover clip art and historical data as to track location on original recordings, original date of publishing. performer, writer, etc... so a lot of after the fact research and effort was put into the 108GB of music, video and iTunes University lectures that are on my iPod Classic.

Where I am now:
I have since replaced the hdd in the PC notebook that iTunes was installed on and migrated to Vista 64 (I'll be moving to Win7x64 pro before september). iTunes has been installed from the apple website.

I also have a MacBook Pro that the university I attend requires us to use. I have iTunes for OSX on that as well as ITunes in the BootCamp partition using Vista Business (also migrating to Win 7 in sept).

the problems:

1. Is there anyway of saving six years of hard work of collecting album art and info from the ipod directly without duplicating the actual music files (etc) on the USB drive? (I have songs on the USB drive that I didn't and don't want on my iPod), likewise some lectures. I know iPod copy will transfer a copy of iPod contents into a new iTunes directory but I'd like iTunes to refer to the external drive files so I won't have to spend the next six years clicking get info to and redirecting iTunes to make my iPod look correct again. (Where is album art and info stored? I', assuming in a iTunes file in the iTunes directory somewhere).

2: Will exporting the library "de-install" the library on the original iTunes? If I want universality between my pc notebook and my MacBook Pro dual boot? Is this possible? (They all reference the external hdd as some sort of music and video server).

Sorry for my lengthy message but I wanted to provide all the info for the situation.

Thanks for you help Dave!

Robert

Dave,

When opening iTunes on my new iPad, do you know how do I go directly to my iTunes library rather than my popular or downloaded tunes?

Thanks.

Hameed

If one of the computers is a laptop, then there's a much easier way than using a cd or an external hard drive: home sharing. Just have both of the computers in the same household, have them signed on to home sharing, and manually transfer songs in a matter of seconds.

I had Itunes running quite well off an external hard drive on my old computer, but I'm having a heck of a time getting it set up that way on my NEW computer. Every time I think I've got it working properly it shifts to running off my computer. Dave, can you (or anyone else!) give me the steps to set up Itunes on a new machine so it runs off an external hard drive that already has my Itunes library set up?

I want to buy a larger ipod ( currently have a nano). How do I transfer all my music from my itunes library to my new ipod?

Sarah: Mac or PC?

Graham: I'm not clear. If all this content is on your old iPod, doesn't that mean that it's also on your computer so you can sync it? If so, just get the new iPod, plug it in, and check the appropriate boxes to have all the content copied?

hey, i have an ipod version 4.0, my mate updatd it for me. and my siters still have the older version, and they are using the older iTunes version at the moment, which has there songs on it, and the old iTunes doesnt support my version 4.0 ipod, and i want new songs! i tried putting more songs on my ipod from mates houses, but that just mean that mymusic and games ot restored, and now i have no music. my computer recently got busted, and we are now using the laptop, but i still cant get songs on my ipod because of the old version of itunes! any ways that i could get songs onto my ipod? or even get my ipod back to the ld version?
thanks.

Hi there.. recently i bought an iPod Classic and i want to be able to put purchased content i.e Song that i bought on my iPhone to the new ipod but dont have them in my music library hi do i do this???? if you can help i would very much appreciate it. Thank you.

i have transferred all my itunes library using home sharing to a new computer .if i would sync my iphone to his new computer will everything be ok ? or all my contacts and apps will be deleted ? if anyone know pls help !!!!

i reset my laptop and now i can't upload songs from my itunes to my iphone, even thought when i connect my phone to my laptop it recognises my apps and stuff....but on the left hand side of itunes it says my iphone name but it doesnt say the name of the file i created to upload my music on2 b4...
PLEASE HELP!!

How can i upload info to my mac from a pc 'formattted' external hard drive?

Is there a way to automaticaly 'level' the volume for all songs in my ITunes?

i just transferred my itune library to an external hd. they are now all in folders, which is fine. however, when i grab all the files/songs in a folder they play in reverse order in itunes on my mac laptop? any help would be most appreciated...pr

I am trying to transfer some music i downloaded from demonoid... All songs are downloaded but when i try to copy to a usb stick the following error message pops up:

Cannot create or replace song/album name: Cannot find the specified file.

Please help!

I HAD FORMAT MY HARD DISK AND I HAD MADE A NEW DRIVES WITH DIFF SIZES ......AND NOW I NEED VERY IMPORTANT DATA WHAT CAN I DO

There's an article, which may be interesting for some of you. It's explaining how to transfer the entire iTunes library manually, or by using DVDs or a software. I managed it using the software, but also the manual part seems to be quite easy. http://en.kioskea.net/faq/10073-transfer-itunes-to-another-computer

Initially I was using itunes on my C drive with all my music data stored on an external drive. C drive crashed. I replaced it and system is running Windows 7 and itunes 9, but itunes does not recognize the data on my external drive.

- I have changed the folder directory under Edit>Preferences, but itunes does not recognize the files or folders. I have a hunch the file system was created with the older folder structure which the current itunes no longer sets up. Likely, in the past, when I updated Apple software, the newer version of itunes accomodated my existing folder structure, but the new version isn't getting it.

- I have access to all the old data on my crashed C drive. I can restore any library files or pointer files. I just don't know which they are or how the itunes system works.

Any help would be super appreciated!

Using 3 TB Western Digital HD to store 350+ converted personal movies from my collection. Want to add more movies from my collection but this process is slowing my computer down considerably. Although I have downloaded the movies to my Ext HD, have left my itunes library on my desktop main drive. Is there a way to add more movies without slowing down my computer?

Tks.

My libary includes 400K songs.