Moving music to a new PC missing playlists and burned music

My playlists and burned songs did not move from iPod to iTunes library when I moved to a new PC - just my purchased music came over. Is there a way to get those songs or do I have to start over...

Depending on the ipod, this is the way it works.
You need to move the music from you old computer to your new one first.
You can use home share, your backup copy, cds, dvds, etc.

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How do I get iTunes to show up so I can make playlists and burn CD's as I was able to do in MAC OS X Snow Leopard? I upgraded to MAVERICKS so that I could have iCloud capabilities.

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Help here > iTunes 11 for Mac: Create a playlist

Missing playlists and play counts

I recently upgraded from a MacBook to a MacBook Pro. I have everything back up via Time Machine, when I looked into iTunes I discovered all my music was there but my playlists and play counts were missing. Does anyone know how to recover these from Time Machine?

found the solution it's the file "itunes library.itl" I just pulled that from my latest backup and voila everything is back in place. sweet!

Brand new iMac 24" crashes and burns playing games in bootcamp

If this continues I guess I will have to call support but for those that are interested here is the story:
I have a 24" iMac 3gig and I have installed bootcamp - although I am not convinced as to how well this worked with the driver install as I have problems pairing my bluetooth mouse and keyboard in windows - works fine in OS/X.
If I play WoW in OS/X it seems to handle this. I currently bought Warhammer Online which is PC only so I put it into my bootcamp partition. It runs absolutely fine until it gets hot and then it quite happily brings the machine down.
Symptoms.
wireless networking stops
bluetooth becomes unreliable even when rebooted into OS/X
System crashes and screen goes black - no repsonse or anything
I find this worrying as such occurences cannot be doing my system any good.
I installed fan control and tried upping the fans and my ssytem is now a little noisy but it still happens.
After spending so much money on what is touted as a robust and performant system I am very disapointed. It seems despite controlling and selecting hardware Apple are no better than PC manufacturers. Except prettier
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Consumer ? The top end iMac ? Certainly my local shop has a different definition of consumer. Agreed the Mac Pro is HIGH performance and also a high price.
For most of my needs I am happy with the Mac, a little disapointed with boot camp but that is all. Not just the game, but also the bluetooth keyboard - just can't get it to work. Works perfectly in OS/X which I guess is the main thing.
Only real niggle in OS/X is the mighty mouse seems to be a bit sporadic with the right click. Works for a time and then doesn't. Very annoying, mainly becuase when it is working properly it is brilliant - so infuriating when it doesn't.
Still - early days yet, and still learning - so hopefully I will sort everything out to my satisfaction.

Missing Playlist(s)

I've got select smartlists that I've created to place on my ipod touch. I will at times select several of the playlists at a time. All the music in those selected lists sync to my ipod, but one or two of the playlists don't appear in the playlist part of the ipod/music, and it isn't always the same playlist(s). Is there something I'm doing wrong when syncing to my ipod?

Do all of these tracks you are trying to burn appear in the playlist you are trying to burn? Do all of these tracks play correct in iTunes? Are they in a different format? Have you tried recreating the playlist and burning another copy?
B-rock

Ok, what can I do with downloaded music and burn to cd's

Two questions, when you download a song, you can only burn it to a cd 7 times? Or is that a playlist of more than one song?
What happens if I download my music, burn it to a cd, then something happens to my mac and I have to wipe the HD and start from scratch. Will itunes realize when I reload my music that it is mine?

when you download a song, you can only burn it to a cd 7 times?
This only applies to songs with DRM. Any songs you purchase now do not have DRM.
And this only applies to a specific playlist with a song containing DRM.
You could put that song in a new playlist and burn it 7 more times.
What happens if I download my music, burn it to a cd, then something happens to my mac and I have to wipe the HD and start from scratch.
1 - You have it on the burned CD
2 - You have it on the backup of your importatnt files you want to keep
3 - 17 years of Mac owning I have never had to "wipe the HD and start from scratch". It's not something you do on a regular basis. Some Windows users do it for many problems and some do it regularly just to keep things running smoothly. ???
Will itunes realize when I reload my music that it is mine?
No. You only get one download.

How do I seamlessly loop tracks in a playlist to burn a CD

I need to burn a CD for an event. I need the first song to repeat seamlessly for 10 minutes, have a small 3 or 4 second gap before the next song (also need to loop)
etc.... For 5 songs, most of which need to loop seamlessly for varying lengths of time.

Only 1 Karen,
iTunes burns audio CDs directly from the playlist, and does not change anything except to place a gap of 0 to 5 seconds between each track.
If you want to add looping, variable gaps, crossfades, or other effects, you will need to use an audio editor such as Audacity. Make your final mix, export it from Audacity, add it to iTunes, put it in a playlist, and burn your CD.

HELP!! Moved iTunes music to new comp, but playlists are GONE!!!

Ok, I've posted a couple times now, gotten no helpful responses as of yet, so here goes another attempt:
I just got a new computer. My iTunes music was stored on an external harddrive. I was able to get the music to show up in the iTunes library on the new computer, but
1.) All the songs are checked. I had a specific 900(or so) out of my 10,000 songs selected, for ease of syncing my 4GB iPod Nano. I don't want to have to go through every single song to uncheck the ones that were unchecked before. What can I do?
2.) I have dozens of playlists, some hundreds of songs long. Now, in the new iTunes on the new comp, the playlists are GONE. How can I restore them(other than putting them together one song at a time)?
3.) Some of the album artwork is gone. Some isn't. What gives? How can I restore the missing artwork?
4.) How can I make sure that new iTunes purchases are stored on the external harddrive, not the new comp's harddrive?
That's it for now. Someone PLEASE help, this is a major pain....

Chris CA answered most of your questions in your other posts.
You need that iTunesLibrary.itl file from your old PC.
That's the way iTunes was designed, the way it works, and if you want your play lists and checkmarks back, you need to get it back.
Here is a good article on that - scroll down to the section titled
*iTunes: The Database versus the Content*
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive
Your exHD needs to have the same drive letter as it did on your old system, too.

Missing playlists after moving to new computer

Greetings.
I am soliciting some help.
I have acquired a new computer (Vista, Lenovo desktop) and want to use iTunes on it. So, I downloaded and installed iTunes on it.
I keep all my iTunes things on an external drive (G drive) and so I connected it to the new computer and dragged/dropped the entire iTunes folder over. Then I set it to be the "iTunes Music folder location."
I seem to have lost the playlists (and I have lots of them - 120 GB of music/audio).
Is there a simple way to recover them. I really don't want to start over on playlists...
Bill
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Bill, I am hoping you can help me out. I too have a new computer with the windows vista platform. i have my itunes music folder, itunes itl and xml on my external hard drive. i went ahead and started itunes on the new computer while holding down shift button to choose the library. when i did though it said it was locked, on a locked disc ,or dont have write permission to open this file. do you know a way of how to correct this, or how to get my music on the new computer with all playlists intact? (i noticed on some posts there was reference to ensuring external drive on old and new computer was same letter, that is also not the case with mine. was G on the old one, now this one has it as an F. any help you can provide i'd greatly appreciate

Moved library to new laptop, but it didn't take all playlists and apps

I got a new laptop recently and have been trying to phase out my old desktop. I followed the instructions for moving/importing your library. Things were made a bit simpler (I think) because my library was held on an external HD that I now have connected to teh laptop so there wasn't a lot of file moving involved. The trick now is that I open iTunes and it lists all of my playlists, but only the smart playlists still have all the associated songs. The "regular" playlists are all empty and the main window instructs me to add music by dragging it to the playlist, etc.. Also, when I connect my iPhone and attempt to sync, I can see that a large portion of the apps currently on my phone do not appear on iTunes. I get a message warning me that syncing will erase and overwrite what's currently on my phone so I've avoided syncing for several weeks now.
I still have my original desktop with iTunes installed and I only need to connect the original external drive to get back to where I was before the move. I haven't deleted anything so I could try it all again, but I would imagine the same results. Is there something I've missed? I tried asking at the apple store and was told the only solution was to create all of my playlists again "by hand" and then contact itunes to see if they would "allow" me to get credit for all the missing apps and then purchase them again from the store. There has to be another way.
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When you copied the music from your old computer you should have included the iTunes database (iTunes Library.itl) as well as your media files - this is the structure (normally in C:\Users\username\Music) that you should copy from old to new:
If you only copied the media, and not the database file, try doing so now (without iTunes running) - the files and folder structures should be the same on your new PC as on your old one.
Then hold down SHIFT while starting iTunes; you'll get this prompt:
Click on Choose Library..., then browse to and select the iTunes Library.itl file that you just copied. Your library should now be in the state that it was on your old machine, including your playlists.

Moving music from new Macbook to iPhone4

I recently bought a new Macbook, which replaced an old PC laptop. I also have an iPhone4 which I prefer to hold most of my music.
I moved all my music libraries from my old laptop to my new Macbook and all my songs appear in my new iTunes, with checks next to each song
indicating they are available.
Last night I wanted to update the music on my iPhone and went to sync my music. I chose to sync certain songs only and checked the artists I wanted moved to my phone. It proceeded to leave off roughly 1,600 songs and erase the contents of my iPhone music, including playlists and ringtones. All of my songs appear in iTunes, so I don't mind remaking playlists but now my phone has almost no music.
I have authorized the iTunes on my new Macbook, so I can't figure out why it wouldn't just update the music.
I have read through a bunch of other threads but they don't seem to indicate a step I may have missed.

If you have any iTMS purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers has been 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's a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to your Mac at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
If you prefer something more automated there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. I use Senuti but have a look at the web pages and documentation for the others as well, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
Senuti Mac Only
iPodRip Mac Only
PodWorks Mac Only
PodView Mac Only
iPodAccess Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac & Windows
PodUtil Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac & Windows

Moving music from new Ipod to new MacBookPro

I have just bought a new MacBookPro and are trying to move my downloaded music on the Ipod to Itunes in the new computor. It will not work? What am I doing wrong??

If you have any iTMS purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers has been 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's a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to your Mac at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
If you prefer something more automated there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. I use Senuti but have a look at the web pages and documentation for the others as well, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
Senuti Mac Only
iPodRip Mac Only
PodWorks Mac Only
PodView Mac Only
iPodAccess Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac & Windows
PodUtil Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac & Windows

In my Itunes library label: My Music albums content is missing even if I down loaded from a personal CD. I was trying to make up some playlists and the music is not there but the album title and tile is.anyone have any suggestions.

I have a Dell Desktop Optiplex 380 with Windows 7 operating system. regarding use of I-Tunes library and making playlists from "My Music"I went to My Music clicked on the album tile to drag to the new playlist and all of the albums are empty. Like the tracks are labeled but not there There is a note to go to the store and buy each track for 0.99. These Albums have been in the system for several years. where are they, and what happens to them. Do I need to import again. which could be a pain
Would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks<
Flemcat

Hello Flemcat,
After reviewing your post, it sounds like you are missing content from iTunes library. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help the issue.
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

New computer, moving music

When I got my ipod, I downloaded itunes onto my friend's computer and used it to put my music on, etc.. Then he moved- with his computer, and I'm not in contact with him anymore. I recently moved and would like to be able to put my library on my home computer, but don't have access to his computer that my library was originally on. I really don't want to erase and start over as there are a lot of cd's and music I don't have with me except on my ipod. Any way to do this?

The transfer of content from other sources 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 read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
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iDump Windows Only
iRepo Mac and Windows
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
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iPodCopy Mac and Windows
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. 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.

Help moving all songs. playlists, and apps to a new computer ?

so i've finally gotten a new laptop to replace my old dell one and now i am faced with the problem of moving my library to my new computer. my old computer is still in use, however, and so is my old external harddrive. i have bought a new external harddrive to go with my new laptop.
is there a way that i could copy all my songs into my new harddrive, keep the playlists, playcounts etc. but organise the songs differently on the new harddrive ? because i want to reorganise all my music before putting it into itunes, however i still want the playlists and playcounts to be there. so i guess what i'm trying so ask is if theres a way to completely reorganize my music on the new harddrive, then import that into the itunes on my new computer, complete with playcounts and playlists ?
also, i own an ipod touch 3G, so how would i move all my apps to the new computer as well ?

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