Problem transferring ITunes from old to new PC

Old XP pc had 7000+ tracks in ITunes. Started having problems so bought new Vista pc. Got ITunes 8 loaded onto new pc and started to copy existing ITunes info onto my portable hard drive. However, at approximately every 400 or so tracks the transfer ran into problems, probably due to limitations of old pc, so I had to transfer all the music files in stages. Got the whole lot into the Music>ITunes folders and looked ok. The library opened in ITunes and in the music folder, I can play any track. Unfortunately, when in ITunes, if I select a track and click play I get an error message along the line of "cannot play the track as cannot find the original file" it then gives you the option to manually search for it.I could do that for a few files, but not 7000. I can't get it to play any of the tracks. Any ideas??? Support not any help.

It doesn't sound right for the files on my PC, I am quite OCD about having file names I can find and making sure the MP3 tags are good. ; )
If that's how it was on your old PC, it does sound right -
It might just be easiest to start over with a blank library. Do a ctl-A and select all the tracks, then press delete, If you get a message about sending them to the recycle bin, for god's sake say NO. You shouldn't get that message anyway, since itunes can't find the files.
Assign your portable drive a letter way down in the alphabet like M: for music.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844
Set your ituens preferences > advanced tab > itunes music folder location to
M:Music or whatever your top-level music folder is named.
Now drag that top-level folder from Windows Explorer over into yoru blank itunes library list. It should add everything.
An alternate way to do it is File > Add Folder.

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Bear with me folks. I’ve messed this up so many times in the past I’ve amazed myself.
I purchased a new PC.
I copied my music into the iTunes music library.
My primary concern is ensuring I carry my playlist over to the new PC.
I don’t care about album art or videos/. Just the music and playlist.
With that in mind…I’m not sure about the next steps….Please confirm.
Should I now: Copy from my old library the “iTunes Music Database File” & iTunes Music Library”?
My concerns:
My old PC is executing ver. 7.0, and the new one is ver 7.2. Do I need to sync the versions?
Also, my old PC pointed to my music on an external drive. However, because my mew PC has a bigger hard drive I simply placed it in iTunes music library.
If I copy those two files from the old PC to the new one, won’t itunes think that I still have my music pointing to an external device. I would think that information is contained in one of those two files I will be copying from the old PC to the new one. (Confusing?….I hope not).
In short what is the best to transfer my itunes from one PC to another while keeping my settings intact?

These two articles should get you exactly to where you need to be.
How to back up your media in iTunes
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392
iTunes: How to backup and restore playlists
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93763
Once you have successful backups, you can simply transfer those backups to your new PC.

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Since you have a Mac you can use a program called Senuti. It transfers all your material from your iPod to your computer. Download Senuti, then in the preferences, set your destination folder to the iTunes music folder. All the content on your iPod will be placed in there and then all you have to do is transfer that to your new iTunes library. Hope it works out.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14982

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I have been trying to export all of my itune songs from an old PC to a new laptop. I'm only getting a portion of the songs transferred. When uploading from a separate harddrive its says that "songs cannot be found". So in a file that I might have 50 songs, I only get 2-3 transferred. I have quite a few songs that I uploaded from CD's and these are what are not being transferred. Is there a way of transferring the individual files with all the music therein, rather than putting everything in the "all" file. Some step by step instructions would help as what I have found on the internet still does not transfer all my songs.

Just checking. Have you done the steps listed here?
About Authorization and Deauthorization.

HT4527 When transferring iTunes from old computer to new computer, even though all of songs were copied over, not all of them went to iTunes, some appear to be stored elsewhere. How can I find these songs, and how do I transfer them to iTunes?

When transferring iTunes from old computer to new computer, all my songs were copied over, but not all of them were stored in iTunes. It appears they are on the computer somewhere, but not on iTunes. Where are these other songs likely to be, and how can I get them onto iTunes? Because of this problem, Apple will not allow me to update my iPhone.

You may/must have had music files stored outside of your iTunes library.
I'd recommend going to the Finder and then via the search box look for files with mp3 aif m4a aac etc. depending on the music format your digital music had. With the list of files shown you should be able to learn which files were stored outside of your music > itunes folder
Chances are they could be burried somewhere under your documents, downloads, desktop, ... we all have different storage and organization habits.
Then when you find the missing files, on the new computer you can do add to library and go to the folder on the other computer where the missing files are - if your systems are networked - or sneak them over using a USB thumb drive or portable hard drive if you have lots of files, or if you like to have an extra backup of that music, copy to optical disc.

Hi transferring data from old to new and it is stuck on 1 min remaining for 1.5 days now. any ideas

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If you have already tried restarting the process and it continues to stall out, the only way to do it is through target disk mode. Because USB C is so new there is not an official way to do it. If you take it into an Apple Store they should transfer your data for free.

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I was able to transfer my iTunes library from my old PC to my new desktop. I'm seeing the entire content in iTunes on the laptop just fine. Home sharing is enabled & the laptop has been authorized. Two problems remain.
1. I just downloaded 7 new tunes from iTunes store (on the laptop) but they aren't appearing on either PC or laptop when I search my library on them. Why ?
2. I have over 4000 tunes in my library but only about half are selected (i.e. checked) for sync'ing onto my iPod. But when I transferred the entire library to my laptop, everything is checked. I haven't connected my iPod to the lap top because I don't want everything transferred to it. Is there a way to sync the laptop with the PC so that the checked content is identical on both machines ?
Once I get this squared away, I intend to deauthorize the old PC. Please help.
Thanks !

Update -
Ok, I've determined that the the songs that I transferred from my PC were actually part of my shared library. There's always only been one computer in the house so sharing was never an issue. As I indicated above, I'm going to deactivate my old PC once I get all this settled. So maybe a better description of my issue is this:
I have over 4000 tunes in my iTunes library. About half are chcked for sync'ing with my iPod. Some are purchased from iTunes which I understand can be redownloaded from the Cloud. Others are from CDs that I loaded over several years. What I'm trying to do is to:
1. Physically transfer the contents of my old PC's iTunes library to my new laptop and ;
2. Make the checked selections the same between the two machines so that when I connect my iPod to the new laptop, it will sync with the same tunes it has now.
Hope this makes sense. Apologies for the initial confusion....!

Transferring music from old to new computer ?

hey!
so i tried following the tutorial for transferring music from my old computer to my new computer (both of them PC's) and i got as far as the "copy itunes folder into ipod then connect to new computer"
now the next step is to take that itunes folder outta my ipod folder and place it into "my music" and then delete the itunes folder from my ipod so i free up my memory again.
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has anyone done this before because the PC version of the tutorial doesn't seem to be working. my question is what should this ipod folder look like and where can i find it?
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Hi cynthia I know what your going through the same exact thing happened to me (I feel your pain and stress). You can use Windows Explorer to delete the folder it should be obsvisoly labeled I belive as "Itunes" and if you acidentally delete your music its already on your new computer anyway so all you would have to plug it in and it would sync...

Transferring ITunes from old computer

Hi folks....I need some help please.
I had iTunes on my old PC. I bought myself a new laptop and wanted to transfer my iTunes library across to my new laptop. I created back up discs for my entire library and restored it on the new laptop. Everything worked out fine and had no problems until recently. I went to open iTunes and my entire library had been wiped off. It said that my ipod can only be synced with one iTunes library or PC at a time. This is fair enough as I have not deleted my old library yet, but its not in use.
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jen

Hi there jenshep, I suppose this is a pretty negative message. I have been trying for two months now to transfer my music tracks from my old computer, on to my lap top (which is three years old)Until I achieve this Im not going out to buy a new computer. I have acted on all the advice posted from like minded people. I have e-mailed the i-Tunes help line, who refer me to section this paragraph that, to no avail. I visited 'PC.World' as they addvertise a service "transfer all data from your old-to new computer £30" However when I asked if they could definately transfer my music library, they became hesitant and unsure and said if they were unable to transfer the complete library I would get my £30 back, which pales into insignificance when you consider the money I would first have to put out for a new computer. I used to be with Sony 'Sonic Stage' However i-Tunes swept thier market away So I bought into i-tunes. I backed up all 12,000 music tracks on CDs, that took nearly 500 CDs. then to my cost I found i-Tunes would not read my CDs.about halve of which I had recorded from my old vynal collection A message would come up saying "You Have inserted a blank CD" The CDs. worked perfectly fine on my music center & portable CD. players. I still live in hope of transferring my collection, but I don't think I will live that long. Hope I haven't depressed you.
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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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Transferring itunes from old desktop to new laptop

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Hi there,
As i remember it Apple's answer is not insane.
Music sync'd to an iPod using iTunes doesnt show up as files (they're 'invisible'). As I remember it is only files that you hand copy to the mounted hard disk that do show up.
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2/ Use one of the un-usual utilities which circumvent Apple's attempt to prevent copying of music from iPod to a computer. E.g. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/

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I recently upgraded to a new imac. I transfered my files however it would not let me transfer my itunes, i believe because it was an older version. I was able to transfer the music, however my playlist are gone, shopping cart, and purchased music etc. I am not sure how to transfer the old into to the new computer. I am also concerned about connecting my ipod to the new computer because I am afraid that it will delete the whole ipod. Any suggestions?
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WELL... I finished the whole transfer last night... It actually didn't take that long (definitely not as long as the iphoto transfer took)... since the new computer is so fast. You actually don't need to download the songs again... they are there... in your old itunes folder... you just need to drag them into the new itunes application...
I lost all my playlists, which is bad, but I can live with it. it will give me a chance to go over some songs again, BUT the only thing that could not be recovered is album artwork from the songs I had purchased in Emusic.... And that was a lot of songs with great album graphics.... Somehow, itunes knows how to retrieve the art for songs purchased from itunes only...
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HT1589 Transfering iTunes from old HDD to new HDD

Hi,..
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If the songs are purchased from itunes they need to be authorized to play on the new machine, before they will play, or be transferred to your ipod. Play one of the purchased songs in itunes, if the new machine is not yet authorized it will bring up a box asking you to enter the itunes account info used to purchase the music. Enter this info and the song should start playing. All songs purchased with that account will now play/transfer from that computer. If you have used multiple accounts to purchase music then each different account will have to be authorized on the new machine.

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