Moving playlists and podcast to new machine

How can I move all of my iTunes playlists and podcasts to my new machine? is there any way of keeping all of the settings the same? thank you.

Found that Apple's _Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5_ book says that cloning works to migrate between machines. Boot from install DVD after cloning and run disc's upgrade. PPC to Intel requires special consideration - recommended to archive old, demote to stand alone, promote, and finally restore from archive.
If anyone has any experience with this, please report how it worked for you.

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i bought a new MacBookPro moved everything from old MacBookPro, new machine runs 10.6.7 - but iPhoto won't 'upgrade' the library - just hangs up supposedly while writing new library. help. thanks.

How did you "move everything" over?
Migration assistance does not handle the iPhoto library well sometimes - the best way is to drag the bad iphoto library from the pictures folder on the new system to the desktop, connect the two systems together (network, firewire target mode, etc) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old system to the pictures folder of the new system and launch iPhoto on the new system - it will open and convert the iPhoto library as necessary and you will be fine - once you test the iPhoto library you can delete the one on the desktop
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ITunes loses my entire library with artwork, playlists and podcasts every time I close the program. Any advice very welcome

iTunes loses my entire library with artwork, playlists and podcasts every time I close the program. Upon restarting it takes at least 15 minutes to rebuild the library and podcasts and a lot longer to replace the artwork, I also lose playlists. I would really welcome some feedback and assistance here and am losing faith in the Apple product. Since iTunes has been updated to version 11 it seems to have caused a lot of issues for many people. I am hopeful of a reply and a resolution. I have approx. 1200 albums at just under 90 Gb. Thanks in advance for any help.

Ditch AVG (at this stage it really does seem to be the problem for some people) and install Microsoft Security Essentials...
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If I back up my iOS devices on my iMac in the US, then do a time machine backup to an external HD, will I be able to plug the external HD into a brand new iMac in the UK and restore the new machine as per the old one, and restore my iOS devices?

If I back up my iOS devices on my iMac in the US, then do a time machine backup to an external HD, will I be able to plug the external HD into a brand new iMac in the UK and restore the new machine as per the old one, and restore my iOS devices?

Since you don't really have a question, I will give you a very broad information source for the next time you have a Time Machine question.
Please visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Oh, you cannot use a computer whose only disk drive is the target of a an OS X cloning operation regardless of what software is used for the clone. You can, however, use the source drive except if you try to clone using Disk Utility.

Moving iPod and Library to New Hard Drive

60GB Video iPod, purchased 11/05. Started using it at work (with permission) and spent a lot of weekend time downloading all of my cd's, as I did not have a working computer at home (it had crashed).
02/06, a friend gave me their Dell computer. I purchased Anapod software to begin "the move". Mid-transfer, found out that the computer didn't have enough disk space on the C drive! One techy tells me to get a new external drive. Another techy tells me to get an additional internal drive. I did both! I HAVE PLENTY OF MEMORY NOW!!!
I've tried unsuccessfully to move the library at work to the external drive to take it home and attach it to the home system. I get it moved. I change the settings to tell iTunes to look at that drive, BUT it's NOT WORKING!!!!!
I HAVE TO GET THIS OFF OF MY WORK COMPUTER, AS I KEEP GETTING A LOW DISK SPACE ERROR! HELP!? HELP!? HELP!?
I have seriosly had it. I'm ready to just trash everything...but I REALLY don't want to. I've bought several things from iTunes...and I don't want to transfer all my cd's again. I can't take much more of this...two months of pain and suffering is ENOUGH!
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Well, I don't know about getting that external drive behaving, but I know how you can get the music off your iPod and onto your home machine. Once it's safe on the new computer, you can erase it from the work machine
1)On the work computer, connect the iPod.
2) Go to Edit>Preferences and choose "iPod"
3) Select "manually manage songs and playlists"
4) Bring the iPod home
5) on the home computer, download "Yamipod" or "PodUtil"
6) connect your iPod
7) run Yamipod or PodUtil to remove the songs.
I believe those programs will tell you how to get the music into your new iTunes, but if they don't, let me know and I'll get instructions to you.

Itunes deleted all my playlists and made a new one and won't allow others!

I plugged in my ipod nano, and it automatically deleted all my songs and moved them all into a new playlist called...(my name) Ipod selection. I have tried, rebooting my ipod, i have tried deleting all of my playlists...cause they still show that they exist in itunes, and re-making all of my playlists. No matter what I do it won't let me have ANY playlists but the ipod selection one. Any ideas how i can fix this and get playlists back??

this document explains what happened with the "ipod selection" playlist:
How to sync music to your iPod when your library is bigger than your iPod storage space
for a little more information on the "automatically update selected playlists only" option, see:
hudgie: iPod cannot sync because one or more playlist …
hudgie: iPod syncing options, OR, My iPod is locked in iTunes!
you can choose which playlists will sync using that option. while the ipod is connected and showing up in your itunes sourcelist, go "edit > preferences, and click on the "ipod" tab. deselect "ipod selection" in your list of playlists there, and select the ones that you want to have transfer.

Smart playlist and podcasts

I have a 160gb iPod classic. I would like to listen to my podcasts like I do my music, one right after another. I made a smart playlist for my podcasts,right clicked it to copy to play order and synced my iPod. The smart playlist is in iTunes, nowhere to be found on my iPod.
Anybody have any suggestions?

@woodp Interesting approach. I guess I never noticed a Podcasts Smart Playlist as you describe it.
In my testing when I had the Automatically include option selected, none of the selected playlists from the Include Episodes from Playlists section synced, while all of the episodes from the Automatically include option did. It may be that the rules of your Netcast Smart Playlist were transferred and your iPod is evaluating those rules on the content that was transferred from the Automatically include option.
As I've always seen it, Smart Playlists provide much more control over the content that I sync with my iPod. First I have way more podcast episodes than will fit on my iPod, or any iPod available. There are some combinations available from the Automatically include, but not enough for my tastes.
As an example, I want the most recently added unplayed episodes for some podcasts, like news podcasts. At the same time I want the least recently unplayed episodes of other podcasts, like audio dramas I'm trying to catch up on. Some times I want a playlist of episodes 5 minutes long or less when I'm likely to be interrupted. Smart Playlists allow me to include all of these, and manage the space they take up on my iPod with greater control than previously available from the Podcasts tab of my iPod.
To get around the limitations of the Podcasts tab in iTunes 8, I like most of the people posting here created playlists and synced them through the Music tab. Apple has taken care of this work around and now I manage Music from the Music tab and Podcasts from the Podcasts tab.
I guess the thing that would have made this transition less frustrating would have been if they had taken a couple extra minutes during the demonstration of iTunes 9.0 at the Keynote to show how podcast syncing was improved. Still Steve Jobs did say the day was going to be about Music, and it was.

Moving Playlists and Preferences

How can I move my iTunes playlists and/or preferences from my old (Windows XP) computer to my new (MacBookPro2.2) computer?
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Steve
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I'm confused--if your laptop is authorized to play all of the songs in your mini library, why can't you just burn a DATA DVD (if you have a DVD burner) of everything on the playlist. This should work on your laptop (as long as it's authorized to play purchased tunes). Post back if you have questions, but I don't know why this won't work!

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Shortcut for moving forward and backward through Time Machine

It seems obvious that there should be keyboard shortcuts for moving backward and forward through time in the Time Machine. Anyone know how?

V.K. wrote:
it might seem obvious but AFAIK there are no shortcuts for that. use the mouse.
I can't imagine replacing a simple mouse click with something like
Cmd-Ctl-Shift-Fn12-page up
It's noticeable that the menu disappears when entering TM, meaning that the usual assignments of shortcuts in the KB menu have, at least for the present, unknown values, if any at all.
What kind of shortcut would take me back to December 25, 2007 anyway? The trackpad and trackpad bar work.
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Moving playlists AND songs from one computer to another

Hi there,
I need to move several playlists and the songs in those playlists from my Mini to my laptop. Why? The laptop is going to be playing the music at my wedding, and the Mini's staying home.
I have 6 different playlists. I know how to export the playlists as an XML file and import that file onto the laptop. But what about the files themselves? Between the 6 playlists, there's probably over 200 songs. I'd rather not hunt them all down, move them manually to the laptop, export XML playlists, lather, rinse, repeat.... but I suppose I will if I need to!
If it help, my Mini's entire iTunes library lives on an external hard drive.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Moral support?

I'm confused--if your laptop is authorized to play all of the songs in your mini library, why can't you just burn a DATA DVD (if you have a DVD burner) of everything on the playlist. This should work on your laptop (as long as it's authorized to play purchased tunes). Post back if you have questions, but I don't know why this won't work!

Tracks often displaying incorrect album art in playlist and podcast modes

Strange one this, and not at all consistent.
I'm often noticing that the album art for another unrelated album is being displayed when I am playing music from a playlist or playing a podcast.
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I too have the exact same problem, and pretty often too. It's really a pain when I've taken the time to find almost all of the correct artwork for all 18,000+ songs (92+ GB) in my iTunes library, and yet it won't be displayed correctly on my iPhone. I've tried countless reset's, restore's, starting fresh with a new library, etc. Nothing I can think of works. Does anyone have a successful solution? I sometimes get an error when trying to update my iPhone 3GS with the number (-6999) at the end of it. I'm wondering if there's any correlation there...

TWO Itunes accounts Running out of space on each laptop. Moving one accont fully to NEW machine wit 3tb drive NAS. Can i move second mdeia libary to nas drive ?? Ie tow itunes libraries on NAS drive working independantly

Two I-Tunes libaries (Mine & My Wifes) Both Machines running out of space.
My FIX Moving All itunes account Libary etc to new PC with NAS 2tb drive (IOMEGA)or Seagate or LaCie or etc......
Can i copy the Bulky Library files ITUNEs from My Wifes laptop to the NAS drive ?
Is this easy to do ?
ALSO She will still have itunes on her laptop just none of the Bulky Library !
As the ITUNES program will be Pointed to her files (Library on NAS drive ) ?
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By default, the ITL is always on the C: drive.
SO it seems you moved yours to the exHD. Just moving it doesn't do anything, though...did you ever do a shift-start of itunes and use it as your library?
Pressing AND HOLDING the shift key until you get a prompt from ituens to choose a library ITL file.
I would do that now before you go any further, to make sure of which library files you want to use.
I would assume the one with the most recent date is the one you want.
iTunes uses the last library opened. You don't always have to do a shift-start, in other words.
However if at any point you start itunes without the exHD connected, it automatically goes back to the C: drive.
In that case, you WOULD need to do another shift-start to use the ITL on the exHD>
It's option-start on a Mac, BTW.
You can move the whole folder over to your new MBP and do an option-start.
Clear as mud?

Moving playlists and podcast to new machine

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