Itunes content move

Hi, how do I move my content from itunes on one computer to another?

I just got an new iMac. I previously had a windows 8 PC. I am struggling to get iTunes on the iMac to link with the music files loaded from a back up device. Two questions:-
1) how do I get my new iTunes to regencies the music files loaded onto my iMac?
2) all this music is on my iPad Air. Can you transfer music from an iPad to iTunes?

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I formatted my mid 2009 MacBook Pro yesterday but before doing that I transferred almost 200GB of iTunes content (movies, music, apps etc) to an external HDD. When doing this I copied over the entire iTunes folder.
Now that I've formatted my MacBook Pro I want to leave the iTunes content on the external HDD which is plugged in to an Airport Extreme.
My question is, how do I get iTunes to recognise where the content is?
I have tried going to iTunes Preferences>Advanced and changing the location under 'iTunes Media folder location' but that hasn't worked. Infact when I quit iTunes and restarted it this setting had returned to the default setting.
I have also popped in to my local Apple store and asked a genius there and he suggested what I have already done. When I told him I had tried that and it hadn't worked he told me to hold down the cmd whilst opening iTunes and that would give me an option to choose a library. When I try this my App folder is opening instead.
Any suggestions?

It should remember where everything is now, but if you'd migrated the library the way Chris suggested you wouldn't have had the problem. If the drive isn't ready when you start iTunes then it tells you that it can't find the library and you just quit, start the drive, and restart iTunes. With the library split as you now have it iTunes can reset the media folder back to the default location on the internal drive and you can end up with housekeeping to do. It is also harder to migrate the library to new hardware in future.
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How do I move iTunes content from my hard drive back to the cloud?

I travel a lot for work and have been using my MBP to watch movies on the plane. Obviously, this requires me to download them to my hard drive. With a smaller SSD, though, I'm finding the need to free up some space. Does anyone know how to remove a movie (or any iTunes content) from my hard drive while making it still available through iCloud streaming?

If these are iTunes purchase, you don’t move them to the cloud. They are already there.
Just delete them in iTunes.
They will still appear in iTunes with a cloud icon.
Note if you delete a movie, you will not be able to stream it while on the plane...
-> https://www.apple.com/support/itunes/in-the-cloud/

HT1751 Question: Is it possible to move just part of my iTunes content (i.e. TV shows) to an external harddrive, keeping the rest of the content in place? Several seasons of TV shows are taking up 102 GB of space, and I'm completely out of space on my HD

Is it possible to move just part of my iTunes content (i.e., only TV shows), keeping the rest of the Library in place? I have purchased several seasons of some TV shows, which take up 102 GB on my harddrive, inside my iTunes Media Folder. I don't want to move my entire Library of music and apps etc to the external harddrive (HD), but I rarely watch the TV shows, so wouldn't mind them being located on an external HD, which I would plug in before trying to watch the shows through iTunes?
Any advice?
Thanks!

I don't think you can simultaneously have two libraries open. But you can have your media spread across multiple disk drives. Just change your iTunes preferences such that the option "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" is not selected. That way, new items can remain on your external drive if that's where you add them from.
The only caution is if you ever add items to your library from some "temporary" location, such as a USB drive. With these preference changes, iTunes would keep the native file on the USB drive, which would possibly lead to you deleting the file and losing the link. So, when you have your preferences to allow you to add new items to iTunes without copying them to the iTunes Music folder, you would want to put the native files in the desired location first, then add to iTunes.
To move existing videos and podcasts to the external drive, you can either do that as you have been (moving the native files and correcting the ! warning), or simply delete them from the library (but keep the native files) then re-add them from their new location on the external drive (you'd lose play history and ratings though, but may not be an issue for videos and podcasts).

I have purchased an Ambient Content movie. It successfully downloaded to my Itunes library. It did a sync with my Apple TV. whn I try to play the movie, I get a message that states, Your Apple TV is not aurthorized to play this content.

I have purchased an Ambient Content movie. It successfully downloaded to my Itunes library. It did a sync with my Apple TV. whn I try to play the movie, I get a message that states, Your Apple TV is not aurthorized to play this content. My questions are why is the Apple TV not aurthorized to play the content, and what do I have to do to aurthorize it.
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Try de/re authorising your computer.

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Hi rcook349;
I found this thread over in the iTunes forum that I think addresses your question.
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JasonFromSK wrote:
With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
Really? I need to check that out!
You should certainly be able to add content by reference to itunes from such a disk (even before the update) - so long as itunes knows the location of the file (set Preferences not to copy to local library when adding the media) it will stream it to AppleTV if the disk is available.
I hope you're right, but I'd be surprised if current Extremes can be upgarded to provide a full Home Sharing service - marvellous if they can but I'd be surprised as i've long said we need an Apple media server either based on TC or AE to do this kind of thing.
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Can I watch iTunes-purchased movies from an Airport Extreme USB disk?

With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
My scenario is so basic, I can't understand why I'm having trouble achieving this.
- I have a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.2 - since it's a laptop, I don't want to leave it on all the time.
- I have an AirPort Extreme with a USB disk on it (that I use for backing up my MacBook), recently upgraded to newest firmware 7.6.1.
- I have a recently purchased Apple TV hard-wired to the AirPort running firmware 4.4.4.
- I have purchased movies though iTunes on the MacBook Pro.
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JasonFromSK wrote:
With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
Really? I need to check that out!
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My setup is a simple apple home sharing network.
I have a mac mini running OS X 10.6.8 and itunes 11.0.3(42) it hosts a lot of music, DVD's that have been re-encoded and paid for content from itunes.
The mac mini is conntected to the network over a very good gigbit lan and has 4 apple TV3 (latest gen) hanging off the network, and multiple PC/Mac/ipod/ipad devices hanging off the network.
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