I want to import a playlist.

I have it saved as a .txt. I have the new itunes. I go to file > library and all i have is turn on home sharing or get album art now import playlist.

NVM I turned on the turnbar.

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I have a free rhapsody account (rhapsody25) - not a subscription. I want to imort that music onto my ipod. The rhapsody app said I had to have a subscription. How can I get my rhapsody music onto my ipod?

Brett,
The Rhapsody subscriptions are not compatible with iTunes.
If you have purchased any regular MP3s from Rhapsody, they can be added to your iTunes library and synced to your iPod in the normal fashion.

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I created a playlist on my iPhone. Now I want to import that playlist to iTunes. It's not automatically synced. Not to mention, when I export the playlist (right click, select export) and then drag that playlist into my iTunes playlist list it's blank... I need help. This should be eaiser than this.

I was having the same problem and after some research online I found this and it worked:
1. Plug your iPhone into iTunes.
2. Right- or ctrl-click on the name of the iPhone playlist you want
3. Select Export...
4. Change the format to XML and save
5. In iTunes go to the menu File>Library>Import Playlist...
6. Find the playlist you'd just saved and... bingo.
If you've changed any of the info on any tracks in your library since creating that original playlist it may have difficulty finding a few of them. If so it will let you know, but you'll get everything else. Good luck!
Hope it works with you.

Want to upload itunes playlists from external hard drive.

Have all my music, but now want to import the playlists I had created. Thanks!

Hi Jim
I've recently upgraded to a macbook Pro and I copied all data, profiles etc across from my old macbook. I have also created a second account in my mackbook Pro. I am able to play my iTunes music from the external HD in the 'old' account, but not in the 'new' account, despite trying what you've said above. On the external HD, there are two folders: iTunes music and iTunes media. I have tried selecting each of these, but both times, I get this message: "An iTunes library file could not be found in the folder "iTunes Media". Please choose a different folder." ... Please can you help?
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HT1473 I just got a new computer and want to import my music (current playlists and all music) from my ipod to my new computer. How do I do this?

I just got a new computer and want to import my music from my ipod classic and keep my current play lists. How do I do this?

You can go to the pictures folder on your old computer and copy the "iPhoto library" file and copy it to a thumb drive or something like that and then just open it on your new Mac.

How do I import a playlist to another library on my mac?

I have created an additional library on my mac for my daughter.
She has been syncing with my library by just using her own playlist, but wanted control of her own library.
I have tried every way i can to import her playlist but to no avail. Only some playlists show up when i use the import/export menu and hers is not one of them.
Nothing I try works.
Can anyone help? All the advice I find concerns going from one computer to another, but not within the same machine. Home sharing is on.
Help please!!!

Best to create her own computer login.
She will have her own iTunes library (and all other user data such as documents, Calendars, contacts, etc.)

How do I import multiple playlists at once?

I know this issue has been discused before, but without a solution tailored to what i require, so I will reistate the problem from my point of view:
Background: Had a Windows I-Tunes library, supremely organized. The mother of an Electric surge broke through my anti-surge defenses and fried the motherboard, the hard disk, the Power supply, or so the CompUSA techs tell me. A total loss. My wife has a Mac, I wanted to move my music and playlists to an I-Tunes account stationed on her mac, and reorganize the library just as it was before synching my I-pod and keep walking my life.
Process:
With some third party programs I managed to transfer my music into ITunes and now I have it back. But now I want to recover the playlists that I had organized into folders and have my music organized as before. Some might say I-tunes is already organized, there no need for so many playlists...but to find My Chemical Romance under the Holiday music genre isn't where I though I would find it or where I want it. And there are thousands labeled in "genres" that I have never heard about...just because the CD had scripted the music on it was of that genre.I Use playlists to organize the music I use frequently, be it from a single group (best of) or a multi-group compilation, hear it the way I want it and have reasonable quick access to it. I don't like looking around for a song as I do other tasks.The I-Pod control wheel is not my hamster wheel.
In any case, I need to import the playlists en masse. There are many of them. I already have the playlist text files pre-separated, so I can import them in groups and place them in the folders they belong to. No overwhelming the system. I-Tunes is a heavy program in itself and any stated "slowing up" is imperceptible to I-Tunes regular speed. The benefits of my structure are primarily enjoyed in the I-POD. I hardly hear music directly from I-Tunes, it puts too much of a burden in a system I use for other heavies like photoshop etc.
I tried to do this with the automator...but it can import anything but playlists. I lacks a step to know what to do with the playlists once it has acquired them...don't know why it has the step to get them but no apparent action for what to do with them. This is what the workflow looked like. I thought it would work:
The problem was the last step: I was designed to import ONLY MUSIC. And there is no step that applies for the previous get playlists one that I see. Is there a custom workflow or suggestions on how to make this happen? this would both help me learn more about the tools available AND save me weeks of item by item Importing.
Att. Bayul

Hi Ken,
but that doesn't work.And, by the way, Drop does not exist as an option in that context menu, at least in the versions I checked: 3.0, 3.1.
Here are a couple of other posts on this issue:
Re: Deleting multiple items
Multiple Objects Deletion
On the SQL Developer Exchange Feature Requests page there are actually several instances of this. Multiple Drop Objects has the most votes and has been ACCEPTED:
https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=43135:7:1551303100110801::NO:RP,7:P7_ID:721
Mentioned in one of the posts above is bug 5855085, actually an enhancement request, whose scheduled release keeps slipping.
If you highlight multiple objects (I tested with all objects of the same type) in 3.1, then select Edit -> Delete from the menu toolbar, a confirmation dialog titled "Erase from Disk" pops up, but an affirmative confirmation does nothing. In 3.0, the Edit -> Delete choice is not even enabled.
Regards,
Gary
SQL Developer Team

TA47831 How can I import a playlist to iTunes?

An old article (http://support.apple.com/kb/TA47831) explained how to export an iTunes playlist to an .m3u file and reimport it. This functionality no longer works with the newer version of iTunes (I'm running iTunes 10.6 on Windows 7). This is presumably why the article has been retired and is no longer supported by Apple.
If I export a playlist, change its name, then reimport the result is an empty playlist. Here is an example of one of the lines from the .m3u file:
#EXTINF:196,My Happiness - Ella Fitzgerald
\\NEF\music\Ella Fitzgerald - 50 Classic Hits (disc 2)\Ella Fitzgerald - My Happiness.mp3
As you can see my file is an mp3 on a remote server ("nef") and works perfectly well in the "Music" section of iTunes.
What I really want to do is to import some playlists that have been generated elsewhere (for example using a script to identify all the US hits of the 1980s with the word "power" somewhere in the lyrics). I figured the easiest way to do that would be to work out what format of playlist iTunes would be able to import and generate one of those, I was somewhat surprised to discover that iTunes can't even import a playlist it has just exported.
How can I import a playlist to iTunes?

Hi Steve,
I was wondering this myself and a quick Google found your post here along with an Apple support article published three weeks ago. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1744?viewlocale=en_US
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Dave

Export and Import multiple playlists... HOW ???

Please help,
I'd like to move an existing itunes library over to a new Mac (without consolidating the entire old library). I copied the entire music files that used to be on three different hard drives to ONE NEW hard drive. (The old three hard drives are gone by now...)
As a result, itunes doesn't know where the music files are anymore - no surprise...
But I was able to change the main path in the itunes preferences [: under the advanced tab/iTunes Media folder location]. So far so good! iTunes can play back all the songs and finds them on the new hard drive.
BUT - all my old PLAYLISTS are gone.
I was able to do this:
- manually export an old playlist from the old computer
- open the .txt file and change the file path to the new hard drive
- import that playlist on the new computer
- VOILA - GREAT, I was able to relink the selected playlist
BUT: THERE ARE OVER 500 playlists... DOING THIS STEP ONE BY ONE will take DAYS if not WEEKS...
Is there a simple way to export all playlists at once into ONE giant text file? And then replace all the old file paths in ONE simple find/replace command... and then import ALL THESE playlists AT ONCE on the new computer???
Let me know is there is a solution... (haven't found an Automator script...)
MANY MANY thanks
P
I wanted itunes to resolve the dead-linked files. But that doesn't seem to work if you are only dealing with paths to your music files as opposed to having all your songs stored inside the itunes music folder...
I was able to just move the song links from the main music library

This was epxlained 15 months ago in this thread.
Onyour new computer, go to your itunes folder. There may already be a file with thesame name, if so, just rename it (and you can delete later). Put the new filein the folder.
Open itunes. File > library > import playlist. Navigate to this playlistand import it! They will ALL be there! It imports them all so youmay have some duplicates of the standard playlists itunes comes with but theseyou can delete.
As soon as you open iTunes, it will overwrite the .xml file you copied into the iTunes folder
Note that iTunes does not use the .xml file. It is created for other apps to use iTunes.

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How do I import a playlist from itunes to my imphone?

iPhone User Guide (For iOS 5.1 Software)
Open itunes, connect iphone, select what you want, sync.

Want to import from pictures file and wont let me

I am so so frustrated. I have so many problems using imovie.
I have a mac book pro latest update and leopard.
I don't import my pictures into aperture or iphoto because I can't find the photos after wards. They are imbedded into the program. So I always download into Bridge. I love bridge and photoshop. I don't use aperture to edit. I want more control. So I go to use imovie and it wont let me import from my pictures file. So i finally break down and import into aperture and now all the pictures are split up into a file each. WHYWHYWHY.? Why would it put a picture in each file. I have the file and then 78 subfiles with 1 picture each!!!!! That is so irritating. I tried to download from a camera archive and it didn't work either. This is why i don't use imovie hardly ever. It is just too difficult to get the pictures inthere and if i do put them in i can't find them on the hard drive.
Frustrated
whitny

whitbooks wrote:
.. want to import from pictures ..
if you don't like the convenience of the iLife package,
_drag 'n drop the pic-file from any Finder Window into project._
.. It is just too difficult to get the pictures inthere and if i do put them in i can't find them on the hard drive.
no, it is quite easy - you make it difficult.
and a Computer/program is much faster searching and finding files than you.
I like the metaphor:
why naming the drawer, you put in files manually, instead of letting a machine find it for you? I can find a well-indexed/'tagged' pic-file much faster with iPhoto than any manual search ".. was it Sept/08 or Oct/08? Was it 'Vacations/Summers/Islands/Trees' or 'Backgrounds/Nature/Woods/' .. ? " ... tagged-fotos can re-arranged in split-seconds into new folders, new structures, new systems (aka Playlists, Albums, Events..) .. 'hardwired' folder-structures not.
I know, a matter of +Thinking Different+ ...
and Welcome, whitbooks, to the  iMovie boards ..

How do I import a playlist on home sharing? I get the songs, but not packaged in the playlist from which it was imported.

How do I import a playlist on home sharing? I get the songs, but not packaged in the playlist from which they were imported. Now I have duplicate songs in my music library.

You can't import media from one Home Sharing library to another by any other means except selecting the individual items you want to import. For example, you can't select a playlist and then click on the 'Import' button to import all the items in that playlist. You have to select all the items in the playlist before you can click on the 'Import' button. By extension, the playlist on the other Home Sharing computer will not be re-created on your computer. You can select more than one item using the 'Shift' or 'Command' keys.
What you can do is create a playlist on your computer first, with the same name if you want, and then use drag and drop to copy the media from the remote playlist to your playlist. Note that the playlist on your computer cannot be a 'Smart' playlist it must be a regular playlist for drag and drop copying to work.
Regarding 'Smart' playlists. If you create a 'Smart' playlist on your computer that uses the exact same filtres as the ones on the remote library when you import the media from the remote library they will show up in the same 'Smart' playlist on your computer.

Importing Library & Playlists

Hello All,
I got a new MacBook and would like to import my iTunes library from my old G5 exactly the way it is with the playlists. When I select import from my new macbook or export from my old G5 it won't allow me to select whole playlists. If I just have it import/export the entire library it won't keep the playlists intact. If I "select all songs" in the playlist and import/export, I'll have to recreate the playlist one at a time on my new macbook. Then when I try to import the rest of the library, it wants to import the songs I've already imported again. This wouldn't be that big of an issue but we're talking about 40+ gigs of music that has been continually organized and refined for the past 6 years.
There's got to be a easier way to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

gonzo80_19 wrote:
There's got to be a easier way to do this.
the simplest way would be to connect the two Macs with a firewire cable, boot the source Mac in _*Target Disk Mode*_, and copy the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes music folder) from the source to the target (overwriting the iTunes folder in place there).
JGG

Simple Question...how to import a playlist to my iTunes library?

I have been trying to get this right. I have some songs on limewire and Windows Media Player and want to import them to my iTunes library. Some of the songs popped up on there...how I dont know. I have created playlists of the songs I want to import already. I am clicking (in iTunes) on File, then Import. I am then going to My Music>My Playlists and selecting the playlist I want to import and clicking Open. Then my window goes away and nothing happens. No new playlist on my iTunes page or anything. What am I doing wrong? I have tried selecting other playlists and it doesnt work on any of them. Help? Please? Thanks!

Figured it out..
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20562154#20562154
basically, click on view and click on show sidebar and the left sidebar looks like it used to...

Interesting Problem: Songs get lost when exporting and importing a playlist

So I exported my library as a txt playlist, removed some songs, and imported that new smaller playlist, and I get the "some of the songs in the file were not imported because they could not be found."
I then exported the new playlist to compare, and there were about 200 songs that itunes wasnt able to import (even though they exist in my library). I didn't alter any of the data in the origional playlist txt doc (only deleted rows), and didn't move the files at all.
Of the files that weren't imported, I can play just fine in my Music library.
Any ideas why some of the songs exported from itunes, can't be imported as a playlist?
For troubleshooting purposes: none of the songs are protected, the largest text length in any field of the ones not imported is 195 characters, all of the songs are on a removable HDD but the HDD is connected just fine (I can see and play the songs it doesn't import back in from my library).
If this is confusing, I'll tell you what I am doing and hopefully it will make sense. I like my music labeled thusly: White Stripes, The NOT The White Stripes
The way I find to best acheive this is leave the artist field The White Stripes, but make Album Artist field White Stripes, The
So I wanted to find all the songs with artists that begin with The (and no I don't want to just search because I end up with a lot of extra stuff, and sorting by artist doesn't group all of the bands with the in the T's). So what I did was export my library as a playlist, sort by alpha in excell (where The White Stripes shows up in the T's instead of the W's), deleted everything else (except the header row of course), and tryed to import the playlist hoping I could just change stuff by selecting the playlist). But it didn't import a bunch of my songs that the program itself exported a few minutes earlier.

kherova wrote:
still curious why a playlist exported from iTunes is not always a vaild format for input back into iTunes
Not sure, but editing a playlist export and then importing the change back into iTunes is kind of dicey -- maybe you edited too much and cut off some important information? Glad that your ultimate goal has a solution though.

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