Replacing computers transferring ALL songs to new computer

How do you transfer all downloaded itunes songs and songs imported from CDs from an old computer to a new computer?

Easiest way would be to turn on file sharing after connecting the old & new PCs together.
Other ways are outlined in this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1373

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Wanna buy a new computer. I wanna transfer all songs to new computer without harddrive or wires.

Im thinking of buying a desktop computer soon. Currently using a laptop. The new desktop pc will be the main itunes. So now i just want to know how to have all my songs in my laptop's itunes to be transfered into the desktop pc's storage and itunes.

These are two possible approaches that will normally work to move an existing library to a new computer.
Method 1
Backup the library with this User Tip.
Deauthorize the old computer if you no longer want to access protected content on it.
Restore the backup to your new computer using the same tool used to back it up.
Keep your backup up-to-date in future.
Method 2
Connect the two computers to the same network. Share your <User's Music> folder from the old computer and copy the entire iTunes library folder into the <User's Music> folder on the new one. Again, deauthorize the old computer if no longer required.
Both methods should give the new computer a working clone of the library that was on the old one. As far as iTunes is concerned this is still the "home" library for your devices so you shouldn't have any issues with iTunes wanting to erase and reload.
I'd recommend method 1 since it establishes an ongoing backup for your library.
Note if you have iOS devices and haven't moved your contacts and calendar items across then you should create one dummy entry of each in your new profile and iTunes should merge the existing data from the device.
If your media folder has been split out from the main iTunes folder you may need to do some preparatory work to make it easier to move. See make a split library portable.
Should you be in the unfortunate position where you are no longer able to access your original library or a backup then then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device for advice on how to set up your devices with a new library with the maximum preservation of data.
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Transferred all files to new computer. My iTunes does not find my music. The "scan for media" button doesn't work and I cannot get the iTunes to see the music that is clearly on my new computer.

I am stumpted. I transferred and have all my music in my iTunes folder on my new computer and I also have it on an external hard drive. I've added the new computer to the list of authorized computers and followed the "advanced" preferences options to select my iTunes folder and still nothing happens. No music, no playlists, NOTHING. The I am completely shocked that none, NONE of the apple support pages can help me. I have Windows 8.1. Please can someone help me. I cannot believe how hard this is.

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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How do I move iTunes and all songs to new computer without loosing ratings?

I recently purchased a new computer and have been trying to migrate everything to it. I downloaded Itunes to my new computer and moved all music on to the new computer. While I have successfully set up iTunes on the new computer (including setting the proper iTunes Music folder location under Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General), I cannot find a way to import ALL (Over 60 gig) of music into iTunes. The best I have been able to figure out is to add each individual folder from an artist to the library (this would be a HUGE amount of time!) and in so doing I would loose ALL the time I have spent rating songs (very important to me for My Top Rated). Is there a way to import all music on a specific drive into iTunes AND keep the preferences from the prior computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

If you want Everything moved over...
See here
Copy iTunes to an External Drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
There is also this...
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer

Transfer all songs to new computer.

I recently purchased a new notebook and I want to do all my itunes work on it instead of my old desktop. How do I transfer all my songs that are on my ipod and on itunes on my old computer to my new computer? I tried storing all the songs on an external hard drive and then importing them from there. But itunes wants me to import each song individually. Is there a way to transfer all my songs at once? HELP

I'll try to help. Check this link (it is from another post):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1803209&#1803209
and then read from this paragraph:
IF your music files are truly gone, and you have some or all of your music files on your iPod,
This was a helpful solution to a different problem which will likely solve your problem.
Good luck.

Transferring Ipod songs to new computer

Hi All,
I looked at the instructions to transfer my ipod songs onto my new computer and while they were crazy long, I think I could have gotten through it. One problem, I don't have my old computer.
Is there anyway to transfer the songs on my ipod, other than my purchased songs, onto my new computer?
The thought of digging all my cd's back out and loading them into this computer isn't my idea of fun.
Thanks for any help!

Check these out:
Third Party Options
Move Music to a New Computer
I hope this helps!
Message was edited by: Lougoose

Transferring purchased songs to new computer

I'm in the process of saving all the information I have stored on my current computer because I'm set to receive the new iMac within a few days. I would like to transfer all my purchased music (from iTunes Music Store) to the new computer -- is it best to burn audio CDs and re-import in the new computer? Is there a way to transfer one's entire iTunes library to a new computer?

BookCase, there are several ways this can be done. If you are going to burn, you need to burn as data CD's not audio as data CD's will hold much more content. You can back everything up to an EHD, plug in the EHD to the new G5 & drag the whole folder back into iTunes. The EHD is what I wanted to do when I moved from a PC to a Mac 3 weeks ago as I had backed my whole library up to an EHD for over six months. It didn't work because I had formatted the EHD where the Mac couldn't read it. The 3rd option which is what I ended up doing is a nice little 3rd party app, iPodRip. It worked like a charm, opened it, attached the iPod, clicked on recover, & BAM, 13GB library was transferred into the new Mac. The only thing I had to do was drag & drop my playlists from iPodRip into iTunes. If your interested in iPodRip, check on Versiontracker.com. Hope this helps!

After transferring all songs to new MBP, songs stop short in iTunes

I have a strange situation here. I bought my wife a new MBP 13" recently and started having a problem with song playback in iTunes. I copied all the songs in her iTunes library from her old MacBook to the new MBP. (The new MBP is running Lion 10.7.2, btw). All the artists and songs show up in iTunes on the new Mac. That's good.
However, on the new MBP in iTunes (v10.5.2), many songs will play and then the audio will stop short of the end of the track. For example, using one song as a test, I picked a track that is 4:19 long. iTunes will play about 4 minutes, then the audio will end abrubtly with about :30 left. This doesn't happen on her old MacBook, running the same version of iTunes, and playing the same track.
Both versions of iTunes indicate the track duration is 4:19. I've tested the same song on both Macs to confirm this ONLY happens on her new MBP. And when she transferred the test song to her iPod Touch, the song also ends abruptly before its 4:19 length.
I've now copied her library from her old Mac to the new one a 2nd time, and still get the same issue. Any ideas peeps?

I'm having this issue also, it's really annoying. I delete and download from "purchases" in the store but then another will pop up.. does it on my phone and shuffles as well as in Itunes. I talked to apple and they gave me a 5 song credit but no way to fix the problem. Going to have to hit them again.
I thought I migh have had a virus or a hacker somewhere so I erased my drive(s) and my phone and started from scratch, not even from a back up and re installed everything fresh.. still happening so it's definitly Itunes.

Transferring itunes songs to new computer

I recently bought a new home computer. How do I get all of my old songs that were on my old computer and transfer it to my new iTunes? Is that even possible?

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Transferring songs to new computer

Our desktop computer is very sick and I am attempting to set up my son's iPod on our laptop. Two questions: 1-Are you able to do this? 2-If so, how do you do this without losing all of the songs and how do you transfer songs to new computer?
Thanks for any assistance.
Frustrated Dad
Windows XP

Connect your iPod to your computer. If it is set to update automatically you'll get a message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button: Managing content manually on iPod
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTMS 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 non iTMS content such as songs imported from CD 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 back to iTunes on Windows. The procedure is a bit involved also it was written long before iTunes 7 so it requires a little adaptation as the iPod preferences are no longer in the location described. Also it won't transfer playlists or videos as far as I know. However if you're interested it's 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. 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
iDump Windows Only
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
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

TS2972 transferred all songs to file in another computer now want to transfer back

transferred all songs to file on another computer, turned on home sharing, set up new computer and now want to seperate the songs to our own computer..

Make sure you have the Latest Version of iTunes (v11) Installed on your computer
iTunes free download from www.itunes.com/download
If you already have iTunes Version 11 installed...
From the View menu > Select " Show Sidebar "
http://osxdaily.com/2012/11/29/5-tips-make-itunes-look-normal/

My old computer had itunes and downloaded songs that I put on my ipod. My old computer got replaced years ago without saving hard drive info or passwords and my iPod burnt out and will not activate. How can I get access to my old songs on new computer.

My old computer had itunes and downloaded songs that I put on my ipod. Well, my old computer got replaced years ago without saving hard drive info or passwords and my iPod burnt out years ago and will not activate. I now have a new computer and iPod and I have an iTunes account on my iPhone5. How can I get access to my old songs on new computer? Are they lost for good? I have no info about my old computer and old account.

Downloading past purchases from the App Store ... - Support - Apple

Transferring Content To A New Computer

Soon, I will be receiving a new laptop running Windows7 64 bit. I will need to transfer my iPod Touch from my current laptop running Windows XP to the new machine. Currently, all of the music is stored on a network attached drive, but I am not quite sure how to get the content that is on my iPod Touch to transfer to the new computer. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Check the size of your iTunes folder (not the music folder, but the highest level folder that contains all the subfolders). If it will fit on a flash drive, copy it to the flash drive then replace the iTunes folder on your new computer with this one. If it is too big try copying/burning it to a DVD.

Transferring camera roll into new computer.

So... I got my laptop stolen and decided to get a new one. The thing is that I can't seem to download the Photo Library pictures from my old computer that are stored in my iphone, into the new laptop... is there anyway i can do that?
Thanks!
J.

Photos captured by your iPhone and a photo saved from a received email, from a website, or from a received MMS are stored in your iPhone's Camera Roll. Photos in your iPhone's Camera Roll can be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera.
The title of your post is "Transferring camera roll into new computer" which you aren't asking about. You are asking about importing or transferring photos from your iPhone's Photo Library, which is completely separate from and has nothing to do with the Camera Roll.
Photos transferred from your computer via the iTunes sync/transfer process are stored in your iPhone's Photo Library, which is a one way transfer process only - from your computer to your iPhone. Photos transferred from your computer are optimized for viewing on your iPhone as part of the iTunes transfer process - the original resolution of these photos is reduced on your iPhone.
Photos stored on your computer should be included with your computer's backup along with all other important data - stored on an external drive or some other external media used for backup purposes only which should be kept in a separate location from your laptop in the event it is lost or stolen. The iPhone is not designed or intended to be used as a backup storage device.
There are some 3rd party paid utilities that provide for transferring these photos in the opposite direction, but such utilities are not supported by Apple and the original resolution of these photos will be lost in the process.

Loading songs from new computer

Old laptop screen broke. Bought new computer. Bought new songs on new computer. Once shuffle connects, Store wants to wipe off all songs on shuffle before loading new songs. Is it at all possible to transfer songs from old LT, through external drive, on to new LT, then load on to shuffle. Have I lost all of my $$$?

This forum is for troubleshooting compatibility issues between Mac OS and Windows, not iPods. You should probably post your question in the iPod and/or iTunes forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=149
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=151

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