Moving Songs

Dumb question but I can't seem to be able to move songs within my playlist. For example I want to make song 300 song 315, etc. When I drag, it just goes back to its original place.

you may have the organization set by title (thin bar at the top of the list of songs) set the categorization to another method and try again

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I am moving songs from my computer to my external hard drive, and of course iTunes does not know where I moved the songs to. I was wondering if there was an easier way to tell iTunes where the entire CD was located as opposed to clicking on the explanation mark next to each song and doing it individually song by song.
Thanks in advance.

Yeah, there is a way. Go to the preferences (I think it is in the edit menu for Windows machines). Click on the advanced tab and you can change the location of the iTunes music folder.

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need help moving songs from an iphone to my computer

The iphone is not a storage/backup device. The sync is one way - computer to iphone. The exception is itunes purchases: File>Devices>Transfer Purchases
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for this very occasion. Use it to put everything back.

MOVING SONGS FROM PHONE TO SD CARD

I have a Palm centro that I just syncd for the first time and moved songs from my computer to the phone but I want to know if I can move it to the sd card?? I have at&t with windows computer please.
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Hi, and welcome to the Palm Support Community.
You can move songs to the card via Hotsync, or if you download and install a freeware application called Filez, you should be able to do it directly on the Centro. When you put them onto the card, you will want to put them into a file folder called audio right off the root directory of the card.
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Moving Songs From PC to MAC

i have a PC (windows xp) that was my old home computer.
Just yesterday i changed my old computer to the newest iMac (21.5 inch) and want to use it as my iTunes home. Here are some issues i'm having:
1: i need help moving files from a pc to mac KEEPING playlist info, play count info, date added info, etc.
2: when i plug in my iPhone to the new Mac iTunes, all the songs on my iPhone are greyed out and can't be played.
3: i've tried homesharing but apple said it isn't meant to save playlists info.
4: (only at least half of my songs are purchased, the rest are from CD's so i can't do the Transfer purchasing thing)
HELP :O

Hello,
Go here: http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/how-do-i-move-my-itunes-library -from-pc-to-mac-and-keep-my-settings-intact
More help here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
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ITunes moving songs to wrong iTunes Library Folder

Hi All,
Just upgraded to 10.1. I have my iTunes library on an external drive. Upon upgrade to 10.1 iTunes created a new iTunes Library Folder on my internal drive (/iTunes Library/Music) and moved 103 of my 8000 songs into that new folder. I've never had or needed that folder before. I have iTunes set to both manage my library and copy songs to my iTunes music folder (correctly points to the external drive in iTunes). So every time I try to add these 103 songs to iTunes, they do not get copied to my external drive library folder, they get re-copied into the internal disk folder that iTunes creates and iTunes will not play them (get the exclamation point). Even if I try to trash the internal iTunes Library folder, iTunes just automatically recreates it and adds those same 103 songs back in. If I copy/paste the songs into the external library and add them to iTunes - iTunes moves them back to the internal drive and will not play them! Some of the songs are purchased from iTunes, some are not. Only 1 song is DRM protected and some but not all songs are iTunes plus upgraded songs.
Anyone have any idea why iTunes might be behaving this way only with those 103 songs?
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Hi I am having similar problems.
I recently bought an external hard drive that i wish to run my music and itunes library off of, i have an ipod and iphone 3gs. I am having problems with it not updating the apps in the folder i have a designated and sending all updates to a newly created folder (which i have deleted) in the c drive being music in an itunes folder, But i want it to go to the external hard drive. My itunes importing and all files have been moved to this external hard drive. itunes is being completely run off the external being installed on there as i thought that might be why its creating this folder on the c drive, with itunes library.itl, itunes extras and genius.itdb, and itunes music library.xml
Can anyone help me would be greatly appreciated thanks
also what is sentinel?

I have just subscibed to itunes match, but seems to have only moved songs that I have purchased from itunes. Those songs have a cloud next to them and some have a cloud with an exclamation mark inserted, when u click on it to play it it now says can't fin

I have just subscribed to icoud match but am having difficulties. It says it has moved all my songs to the cloud but the cloud symbol has seemed to only appear by the songs purchased from the itunes store only, (this is on the desktop where I originally setup my itunes account) and some of the cloud symbols have an exclamation mark in them, so if I attempt to play them now, it says it can't find it!!!. Also, the main purpose of this exercise was to create space on my iphone and ipad............so once I have succesfully uploaded all my songs to the cloud, do I then delete all my songs off my devices to ceate that space or does that happen automatically?

Once you successfully add you iTunes library to iTunes Match, you go to Settings>iTunes & App Store on your iOS device and turn on iTunes Match. Your iTunes Match library will then appear on your iOS device.

Moved songs to new computer but Apple ID no longer exists and I cannot play

I just bought my second Mac and moved all my iTunes songs to it. When I try to play a song, it asks me to authorize for my old AppleID which is no longer exists. So when I type it in, it says that the account no longer exists.
So I'm kind of stuck in a catch 22. I can't play the songs unless I authorize with my old Apple ID but that ID no longer exists.
I searched the forums quite a bit and did not find the answer. Anyone know what to do?
Thanks fellow Mac users!

Why did you create a new Apple ID?
No need to do that.
Go here -> http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/email/
send an email at the bottom of the page.

Moving songs to an external drive

Hi,
I know this may sound like a stupid question, but I'm not an iTunes user, my husband is... My hard drive is completely full because he has downloaded too many songs. We have a huge external drive. How do I physically move the songs to my external drive so that they can play in iTunes?
Also, can I delete the songs after they are exported? HOw will I know they were moved successfully? How do I open the songs from the external drive in iTUnes?
Thanks in advance to whomever answers my questions! Happy July 4th!

The simplest way to move itunes on to an external drive is:
Close iTunes
copy your iTunes folder onto the external drive. (That's My Music\iTunes)
Start iTunes with the shift key held down and when asked to choose a library navigate to the itunes folder on the external drive and choose iTunes Library.itl.
If everything works OK, rename the iTunes folder on the internal drive and make sure everything still works.
Once you are ABSOLUTELY certain everything works OK you can delete the old iTunes folder, which you renamed.
Most peope's recycle bin is not big enough to hold all the music so don't delete things until your are sure everything is working OK on the external drive.
It is also a good idea to have a separate backup of your music.
Note that this procedure only works if you have a standard set up with all your music in iTunes\iTunes Music.

I'm having a problem with downloading multiple app updates and moving songs between iTunes and my external hard drive.

I'm having two problems with iTunes, but I'm not sure if they're related issues. First, when I try to click "Download All Updates" for apps, only one update will download and I will get successive error messages for all of the other updates. However, if I click update for each individual app, they download fine. Why am I not able to download all app updates simultaneously now.
My second issue is that I cannot move songs from iTunes to my external hard drive or vice versa. When I drag the files, the blue plus sign appears, but the file does not appear where I moved it to.
Both issues have been occuring for about month. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

While downloading select Downloads in the left-hand column and make sure Allow Simultaneous Downloads is unchecked. This seems to help with partial downloads...
The other issue doesn't ring any bells.
tt2

Moving Song folder to external Hard drive

I'm new to Logic Express, and just starting my initial setup. What's the smartest way to move all my song folders to an external hard drive. I tried just dragging and dropping it which moved the folder, but when I try to save any new work it doesn't automatically like to the external drive. Sorry for the silly question I'm just getting started.
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Hi Sheba,
Welcome to the forum!
Save as a Project!
It moves all data from the session to the new location.
Also in new sessions remeber to route the audio path
to the external HD.
best regards,
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Moving songs from a shared music library on my laptop to my desktop

I have the music libraries shared. But I cannot drag songs from my laptop music to iTunes in my desktop. Why not? These are not iTunes purchased songs but songs downloaded off internet in flac format, converted to aiff and loaded into iTunes on my laptop. I can play them but I cannot drag them into the desktop library. I want to put them on my iPod, which syncs with the desktop. I guess I'll have to burn them to cd to put them on the desktop. But it seems I should be able to copy from one shared library to another.

I have the music libraries shared.
Just to be clear, there is plain ol' sharing, and then there is "home sharing", the latter being an extension of the former. So, you turn on sharing, and then enable "home sharing", per those other articles I referenced in a prior post.
But if you are technically proficient, as JG said, copying the files using the Mac Finder is the best option. Preserves playlists, rankings, artwork, etc. The iTunes "home sharing" is really well suited for keeping two machines libraries synced and is probably a tad easier, but for that initial copying/moving of a library, doing it at the Mac Finder option is best, if a tad more complicated.

I moved songs within my iTunes media folder and now my iPod can't find them

Hello. I have a few albums in my iTunes library that organize the artists by such folders as Artist feat. So-and-So. This makes it difficult to scroll through artists on my iPod and in my car. So I moved those songs that are in those folders to their corresponding album folder under the original artists' names. Now when I try to sync my iPod it tells me that those songs cannot be found. I completely restored my iPod and tried again after unchecking the following, but it still couldn't find the songs.
Convert higher bit rate songs to X kbps AAC
Keep iTunes Media folder organized
Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library
Luckily I do still have the original CDs and can delete the albums then restore them, but I find this particular feature to be pretty ridiculous.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

The Macintosh has something called "file aliases" which allow you to move files from their original locations and applications that reference those files will still know how to find them. Windows does not have anything like that. It works off of full path / file names. So, when you moved your music folder and all your music in Windows Explorer, iTunes is still pointing to the old location.
Here is the knowledge base article with the information on how to move your iTunes Music Library without these issues, <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305451>

Just moved songs from another ipod onto computer....or so I thought.....

....songs are no longer on my ipod and i cannot locate where they went to on my computer. i used the free method of moving the music which basically is getting additional ipod music into folder on computer and then i assume somehow it needs to be moved into my itunes library. problem is that when i check the folder, there are no songs listed. Any ideas? thanks

You can't sync or drag your music back directly from an iPod to iTunes, the transfer of music is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there is a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs but not playlists back to iTunes on Windows posted in this thread: MacMuse - iPod to iTunes
If you prefer something more automated then there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. Have a look at the web pages and documentation for these, they are generally quite straightforward.
iPod Access Mac and Windows Versions
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
PodUtil Mac and Windows Versions
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
PodPlayer Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only

SUDDENLY NOTHING IS MOVING, SONGS WON'T DRAG INTO PLAYLISTS

I'M TRYING TO CREATE NEW PLAYLISTS AND SUDDENLY NOTHING IS MOVING. INDIVIDUAL SONGS DON'T MOVE, PLAYLISTS IN THEIR ENTIRETY DON'T MOVE. TRIED CREATING A NEW PLAYLIST FOLDER AND MOVING PLAYLISTS INTO THAT BUT NOTHING GOES. HAVE CHECK SOME SETTINGS BUT I'M AT A LOSE AS TO WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF ITUNES INSTALLED. ANY SUGGESTIONS???

Hi Lee113,
I see that you're having a similar issue to me - I download songs through a wi-fi network (wirless internet), and try to sync them to playlists.
Now that I see you have a similar issue, the answer may be a setting in iTunes,or maybe re-downloading these through your PC to see if you can then transfer these purchases to your playlists. I'm currently not at my home PC, but if you could experiment with that, it may help.
All downloads under your iTunes account should be able to be re-donloaded for free through your home PC so give it a shot, download the songs again and try and transfer them. Let me know how you get on.
nzjeff

Moving songs from Ipod to newly installed Itunes library

The hard drive on my old computer died, so after I got a new laptop, I reinstalled Itunes from the CD I got with my nano, and then upgraded it to the latest version.
However it will not let me move music stored on my ipod into my library (which aside from a couple of recovered albums is empty as I lost all the music stored there) so I have the music stored on my Ipod and none of it in my Library.
I have tried copy and pasting and drag and dropping the songs, but the paste is greyed out and I get a not allowed circle when trying to drop into lib. Am I missing something really obvious?
Any help would be great!

If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
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 also read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
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iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
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
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