Getting songs from old computer onto new one

I just got a new macbook and i got all of my old songs onto this computer, but all of the songs that i bought from itunes music store won't play on my new computer...is there any way i can get those to play?

You need to authorise the new computer to play them: About iTunes Music Store Authorisation and Deauthorisation

Similar Messages

How do i get my song from old computer to new one. on windows

how do i get my itune song from old computer to new one. windows

To have EVERYTHING as it is Now...
From your OLD computer...
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
An Added Bonus is that you will have a Backup of iTunes.

Getting new computer - how get itunes from old computer to new one?

Hello: I am in the process of getting a new desktop computer. Currently in itunes I have about 100 songs (I just got the ipod the other day). My current computer only has USB 1.1 so I am excited to be able to use USB 2.0 with the new machine. So, how do I get all of my songs on itunes from my current computer to the new one? Sorry if this is a stupid question, however I am very new to ipods. Thanks

For me, using a computer network is the easiest, and fastest.
Next would be using DVDs
then CDs
then the iPod.
Sounds like you have never burned a CD/DVD or backed up any of your music. You do know you only get the one-time download per track from the iTMS, don't you?

How to get songs from old iPod to new one

Hi. Today I just bought a new iPod Nano. I have a mini, but I want the songs already on the mini to transfer to the nano. Is there anyway I could do this? If so, how?<<br>
PC Windows XP Gateway

There are two possibilities:
1) after putting music on your mini you've been erasing it from your computer
2) the music on your mini is still on the computer
If you erase music after putting it on your iPod, you'll need to download a program that copies songs from the iPod and puts it on the computer. Go to your favorite download site and search on the word iPod. You'll find several choices. Once you've downloaded and used the program go on to the next paragraph.
So your music is on the computer, it is cataloged by iTunes, and arranged in playlists. Great! If your music collection is small enough to fit on the nano, just plug the nano in and sync. If the collection is too big, you'll either want to manually manage it or create one or more playlists just for the nano and set iTunes to automatically sync just those playlists.

Getting info from old computer onto new computer

Hi,
I just bought a new HP desktop computer at BB and it's great. However, I need to move over the documents on my old HP desktop to this new computer. Can Best Buy burn a CD of the documents on my old hard drive, so I can load them onto this new computer? Is that the best way to transfer these files? Cost estimate?
Thanks!

The labor charge is not only time spend working on the unit but the knowledge to do the service completely and without problems. Additionally, if the old computer will not boot, more labor and tools would be required that we do not charge extra for.
Adam
Best Buy Community - Retail, Americas
Forum Guidelines | Terms & Conditions | Community Guidelines | Blogging Guidelines
*Remember to mark your questions solved and click the star under the user's name to show your thanks!

Need to transfer songs from old computer to new one..??

I have a laptop that I was using while my main computer was in the shop for repair. In that time I got an Ipod 30 Gig. I connected it to the laptop and downloaded quite a few songs. After I got my main 'puter back, I installed all the relevent software and so on for the Ipod. I downloaded some new songs and videos to this computer, but it will not go on to my Ipod. I plug in and it asks if I want to overwrite my old library? Well heck no! I want to merge them..so to speak. Well, I let it overwrite but it didn't put any new songs or video on it. Said I was using another library at this time. !!! This is getting very aggrevating. Does anyone know how to get all my songs/video's on one computer and all of them on the Ipod as well???

The iPods will not auto sync betten mulitiple computers. You will have to set it to sync manually. Search for iPod multiple computers there are lots of posts telling you how to do this.

How do i transfur songs from old computer to new one and make new computer the "home" the main computer please on ipod touch

how do i transfur itunes from one computer to another and use new computer only as main one

- Transfer iTunes purchases by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer
- Transfer other music by using a third-party program like one of those discussed here:
Copy music from Ipod to new computer...: Apple Support Communities
- Connct the iPod to the computer and make a backup by right clicking on the iPod under Devices in iTunes and then clicking on Backup
- Restore the iPod from that backup.

Recently bought a new ipod, but would like to transfer my game data from old ipod onto new one. can i do this without losing any information?

recently bought a new ipod, but would like to transfer my game data from old ipod onto new one. can i do this without losing any information?

Are you sure? I restored my new iPod from the backup of my iPad and all app data was restored to the new iPod.. App data is part of the backup.
iPhone and iPod touch: About backups

HT1386 how do i transfer ipod registration from old computer to new one?

How do i transfer ipod rigistration from old computer to new one?

What "ipod registration"?
Plug it in and sync.
It will erase your content form the ipod and replace with content from the new computer. Make sure you have copied everything from your backup copy of your old computer to your new one first.

How to get mail from old computer to new in one place?

I've had lots of trouble merging my data from a G4 iMac to a new iMac. Now my problem is mail.
After the first Migration all was OK with mail. Then, because of other problems, I had to erase the entire new iMac. In doing so I lost about 10 days of mail. Now I have some new mail in the new Mac and lots of old mail in the old Mac and I can not get them together.
The new Mac has two POP folders in the Mail folder in the users Library. One has messages from 12/09 to 3/24/10. This one is named after an account I had 3+ years ago. The second POP folder has messages from only 3/29/10. It is named with the present account. Neither has the current messages that are in the inbox of Mail now. The current messages are from 3/29/10 until today but I can not find them in a folder, only by opening the mail program.
The mail prefs have been altered also. I had a major problem with a pref causing trouble ejecting disks and forbiding the Mac to start. All prefs were trashed. (I think I can find them, I kept them in folders rather than trashing them. However, there are several of these folders as I had to trash and restart several times.)
How can I get all my mail back together into one current mailbox?
Thanks.
Geoff

Thanks for this info. I wish I had know this before I migrated. And I wish the Mac sales person had know. And I wish the folks at Mac support had known. Or perhaps with so many experienced folks not knowing could it be controversial?
Be that as it may, the migration was done (several times) the new computer was non-functional but now seems to be OK. All I want now is to get my old email (from the old Mac) together with the new email (The stuff I've collected since being on the new Mac). That didn't work with the migration and getting all this straightened out has taken long enough that there is a collection of new email.
Geoff

How do I get my pictures from old iphone onto new one

Icloud only dowloaded some of my pictures onto my new iphone, how do i get ALL my pictures onto my new one?

via iTunes
and see this
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2109

TS2972 I have created a home share and want to transfer song from old computer to new. I see library on new computer, but dont know how to get it to stay there.

I have read all the material and still have not found a answer to my question

Copy the ENTIRE iTunes folder from the old computer to the new computer.

Transferring itunes from old computer to new one

I need to transfer my itunes songs from my old computer to my new one. I am going to donate my old computer, so I'll wipe it clean once I'm done. I just wanted to know if there is an efficient way to transfer songs to a new computer since I already did a lot of work loading songs onto the old one!
Thanks!

There's a good guide at this link: "New PC & moving itunes library" http://blog.jillesvangurp.com/2006/01/09/new-pc-moving-itunes-library/

Syncing to old library transferred from old computer to new one

Help! I had the data from my old laptop copied to my new computer. When I access itunes it only brings up the songs I've purchased and not the ones I loaded manually. It says it can't sync my ipod as it's linked to another library. I can't find that library though when I do search for it. Can I copy the songs from ipod to my library?

Connect your iPod to your computer. When you get the message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button: Managing content manually on iPod
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTMS purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
The transfer of non iTMS content such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can also read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
iRepo Windows Only
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync.

Getting music from old computer to new computer.

Ok. My problem currently is that I want to bring music from my old computer to my new one but my old computer is literally destroyed. My notebook had a fatal error and won't work period I've tried everything. So I never got the opportunity to adjust my ipod accordingly. A few of my songs are not payed for and I'd really like them still. So if anyone has any suggestions or ways to get my 1000+ songs back please let me know. I'm only 16 so please don't make your replies very confusing.

If you have songs on your iPod there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from it. You can read reviews and comparisons of some of them here:
Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
Comparison of iPod managers
Here are links to some other examples:
TuneJack Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
SharePod Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod2PC Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows
Floola Mac & Windows
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
TouchCopy Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content only from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
There's also a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to a Mac or PC. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available on page 2 at this link: Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide
One more thing, if your iPod is set to update automatically you need to take care connecting to an empty iTunes on another computer. You can use a keyboard command to prevent your iPod auto-syncing with iTunes. While connecting the iPod to the computer on Windows with iTunes 7.3 or later installed hold down the Shift + Ctrl keys together. This will stop the iPod from auto-syncing with iTunes and the iPod will appear in the source list. Wait until you are sure the iPod has mounted, and that it will not auto sync and then you can let the keys go. This may take between 20 to 30 seconds depending on your computer: iTunes - Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows
When your iPod appears in the iTunes source list change the update setting to manual, that way you can continue to use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed above your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default: Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
Keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync. I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

Getting songs from old computer onto new one

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for