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About 8 months ago I lost my Ipod classic which had thousands of songs on it. (Some were from my friends computer, but over 1000 were from mine.) I went out and bought a new one but when I tried to connect it to my laptop (an old Dell Inspiron 1150) the computer didn't recognize the Ipod. I'd been having computer problems for a while so when that happened I knew I needed a new computer.
When I got the new computer, my Ipod connected just fine with it but I knew that I needed to get the 1000+ songs from my old computer to my new computer. When Home Sharing came out I knew it was what I needed. So I connected the two computers through that method. My old computer took the library of the new computer (maybe 20 or-so songs that I had bought) but the library of my old computer wouldn't transfer to the new computer. I thought maybe it was something wrong with the new computer. However, I recently bought a Mac. I am having the same problems right now and am very anxious to get this problem fixed so that I can de-authorize that computer.
Has anyone else had a similar problem and solved it?

DesArie wrote:
When I got the new computer, my Ipod connected just fine
sounds like the only problem left is home sharing
maybe i can help with that.
what you want to see in iTunes is this (view from my MBP's iTunes seeing the library on my Mini)
if you then click on the house icon, it will change to this and you should be able to import any content from any shared library.
if the icon looks like this , home sharing has not been set up correctly.
in order for home sharing to work
(a) iTunes on all machines must be authorized for the same iTunes store account
(b) all machines must be on the same network
(c) all machines must have access to the internet.
if none of the above makes a difference, try turning home sharing off on all computers, then turning it back on.
these reads will be useful: one and two.
JGG

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