ITunes = User Unfriendly

It took me several days, hours of study, hit & miss tryouts, & a lot of stress, to transfer my iPod library from my old, blown-up computer to my new computer. The iTunes software is unintuitive in every way. There was no clear solution anywhere on the web. I know what I am doing. I was not about to PAY greedy & minimal Apple support for an underpaid wage slave who knew less than I for assistance.
You can't mess w success, & obviously Apple rules. However NO ONE can seriously believe that Apple software is better than MS Windows. Sorry Apple afficionados, that was only true 15 years ago!

loquiter wrote:
It took me several days, hours of study, hit & miss tryouts, & a lot of stress, to transfer my iPod library from my old, blown-up computer to my new computer. The iTunes software is unintuitive in every way. There was no clear solution anywhere on the web. I know what I am doing. I was not about to PAY greedy & minimal Apple support for an underpaid wage slave who knew less than I for assistance.
Um, it's a very simple process and Apple provides several tutorials on their website for how to move your media library from one computer to another.
Here's a few examples:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1329
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751
http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2011/02/how-to-move-your-itunes-librar y-to-another-hard-drive.html
Honestly sounds more like a user issue than an iTunes or Apple issue.
Are you certain that you put forth effort to try and search for a solution?
I simply typed "site:apple.com move itunes library" into Google to come up with those 4 links.  Only one link appeared above the four I posted, and it was specific to Mac.
How difficult is it to help yourself and use a search engine?

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