Saving my iTunes and Songs

Have an issue with the sound on my computer. One possible solution will require me to reinstall Windos XP operating system. Will my itunes songs still be available through my itunes account when I set up my computer again or will I need to back the music up and reload them on my computer once it is repaired.

No it will not be available.
Yes, you need to back it up before you erase anything.
You can copy \My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ folder to an external drive then copy it back after you install the new OS and install iTUness.

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Can you save your itunes and songs onto an external hard drive so that incase your computer crashes you will still have all your music?

Can you save your itunes and songs onto an external hard drive so that incase your computer crashes you will still have all your music?

The procedures below are for "moving" your library but as long as you don't delete it from your internal drive you are basically backing up.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Simple answer: Copy your whole iTunes folder to the external drive. For subsequent backups you might want to learn about cloning and using a tool that only does incremental backups of recently changed items rather than copying all your files each time.

Relocating iTunes and songs

I need to reinstall Windows (ads/alert windows driving me nuts in the bottom right corner). My room-mate partitioned my hard drive for me (I'm still not very good with this stuff, and he's not as good as he thinks he is, either), and he says I need to move everything I want to keep onto the new "drive" he created. Obviously I want to keep all of my iTunes and 7,000 songs. Last time I moved anything in iTunes (a folder containing about 20 songs), iTunes couldn't find it and I had to relocate each individual song in the folder manually. I don't want to do that with 7,000 songs (!!), so I need to know if iTunes is going to be able to find them on the new drive (iTunes will be on the new drive, too), and if not, if there's any way to "help" it find them! I'm not looking forward to the 20 or 30 (or more??) hours it would take to relocate each individual song and video!!!
Orrrr, although this isn't Apple-related, is there a way to get rid of these stupid pop-up windows in the bottom right corner of Windows?? One is a yellow triangle with a ! and tells me I have a Trojan (I already ran Adware and got rid of everything) and one is a yellow question mark alternating with a yellow X in a blue circle.

Hey macgyver5,
This article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748 will show you how to move the itunes music folder to a new computer.
Jason

Itunes and songs not working

I have just updated itunes it was working al fine until it come up saying itunes and the sudio cingifure wont play the songs well something like that. so i can't listern to mu music in itunes. I have purchased songs from the itunes store and they seem to be protected and have a little black lock on them in the cornor why is that how do i unprotecte them why did they do that cos i listern to them all the time and last few days i have noticed it is there something wrong with my computer or itunes and the songs r they too old what is going wrong if anyone could help me i would love it. please write down the steps cos i have no idea why it did it.
thank you kwill82

The exact error message is always helpful! I'm guessing it's this common error message:
+iTunes has detected an audio configuration problem+
Article on that is here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304424

How do you move iTunes and songs from old PC to new PC?

I currently have iTunes installed on my work PC with Windows XP Pro. I want to move iTunes and all my songs to my home PC which is running Windows Vista Home Edition. I downloaded the latest version of iTunes to my home PC and need to figure out a way to move all my music from my work PC to my home PC. I tried backing up all my music to 2 CD-RW discs and then drag and drop them into iTunes on my home PC. The music shows up in iTunes but I am not able to play it in iTunes. Any ideas why? Is there a better way to move my music from one PC to another?

Have you seen this article about using your iPod to trnasfer your music:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
The same basic method works whatever storage device you use.
As for the CD Problem, do the tracks have excamation marks next to them in iTunes?
If So you may not have iTunes set to "Copy files to the iTunes Music folder when adding to library" checked.
See Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced.
If this option was not checked, the files stayed on the CDS.

Music quality saved in Itunes and Ipod.

Need help. I notice that most of the CD's music I am saving in the Itunes program are not recorded as they are in the CD. This means that that when I play some songs from the Ipod, they do not reproduce all sounds from compared to the original source. i.e. you cannot hear to some guitars sounds, or the lead vocal sounds too low, this gives the impression that you are listening to another version of the same song!!
I do not know if there is a solution to this, I will thank you any tip to correct this.
Thanks

No problem. Another thing to keep in mind, if you have a 160 kbps file and you convert to, say a 100 kbps file, the quality will go down. The reason is that less "kbps" means less quality. Remember what I said in the first post, you can't go up but you can only go down.
The "kbps" are just some computer numbers. If you use the computer's speaker or your headphone you won't notice too much of a difference, if any, when it is 256 kbps or 160 kbps. People who are crazy about their music usually get the expensive sound system might hear some differences. It's just like when ads mention 2.3 GHz vs. 2.6 GHz for processors, that sounds great on paper but you hardly notice any difference in your everyday apps' performance.

Problem with iTunes and song in iPhone..

Italiano: Oggi ho acquistato da itunes il nuono album di Deadmau5..L'ho caricato sull'iphone e mentre ascoltavo ho notato questa cosa: In pratica andando sull'artista e di conseguenza sul suo album vengono elencati i titoli delle canzoni, MA con sotto anche il nome dell'artista..
Ho cercato in altre canzoni ma nessuna è come queste di questo album. So che è inutile ma mi piaceva poter fare la stessa cosa se possibile con tutte i brani.
é possibile? se si, come si fa?
grazie =)
English:
I bought the new deadmau5 album, and after loaded this at my iPhone, i see that in the album, under the song, i can see the artist's name. What can i do to see that in all my songs?
thnaks

Hello and welcome....
i removed pwntunes from my iphone, but still having same problem.
Try restarting your iPhone. Turn iPhone off by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button until a red slider appears. Slide your finger across the slider and iPhone will turn off after a few moments. Now turn the Phone on by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Before you try syncing with your PC again, launch iTunes. Select the Apps tab from the menu. Delete the PWNTunes app then click the Apply button bottom right side of the iTunes window.
Now try to sync.
Carolyn

Difference Between # of Songs in iTunes and Songs on iPod?

Is there a way to compare the songs in iTunes to the songs on my iPod and see the discrepancies? There is only a 1 song difference between the two out of 4800+ and I don't want to waste a lot of time looking for it. Actually, I won't bother but I'm kind of anal so it will drive me crazy.

One thing to check is if you have your iPod set to auto sync only checked songs and if so then scan your library and see if you have any songs that are NOT checked.
You can also check for unchecked songs with some Smart Playlist trickery. Create a Smart Playlist that only includes checked songs and just make a silly rule that will include your whole library (e.g. all songs that are not from the year 1111) and call it something like "Checked Songs". All your checked songs will go into that playlist. Now create a new Smart Playlist, leave the checked songs only box UNchecked and then make your rule all songs NOT in the Checked Songs playlist, which of course will simply be anything not checked.
Patrick

How do I find and download my pictures and movies that were saved in icloud and itunes library?

How do I find and download my pictures that were saved to itunes and icloud in my itunes match? I think that I lost my pictures and I really do need them.

Your pictures are not saved in iTunes Match; that is a music service. If you restore your device from a backup saved in iCloud, you will get pictures back, but any pictures taken since the backup will be lost, so you will want to import those to your computer first.

My question is Itunes related. How do you prevent a playlist saved in Itunes from alphabetizing the song list created. I wanted to keep the original order, and somehow everything was alphabetized without requesting it.

My question is Itunes related. How do you prevent a playlist saved in Itunes from automatically alphabetizing the song list. I had a specific order of songs that I wanted, and Itunes somehow automatically alphabetized them. Is there a way to turn that feature off, and/or get them back to the original order? I also noticed that once a playlist has been created, I cannot manually changed the order of the songs from my desktop.. Any suggestions?

That's just the sort order. It's displaying the media alphabetically because you have clicked on the NAME column near the top of the iTunes window.
Click on the little triangle above the column of numbers (usually on the far left side of the main iTunes window) and the media will sort in the order in which you added each item to the playlist.
You can easily reorder songs within a playlist: Click and HOLD on the song you wish to move, then drag-and-drop it wherever you like.

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.

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I restored my ipod touch to factory settings, i reimported my saved music library and they show in itunes, but there are no song on my ipod

I restored my ipod touch to factory settings, i reimported my saved music library and they show in itunes, but there are no song on my ipod when i sync it and itunes is showing my ipod as previously named but it does not seem to be transferring to the device, help please

Did you restore to factory settings?new iPod via iTunes on this computer?
What happens when you try to sync?
Do the songs play in iTunes?
Do you have the right boxes checked to sync?
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
Try syncing using the manual method

Part of my Itunes library is saved in icloud and these songs are on my Ipod. Other songs in my library that aren't saved in Icloud are not on my Ipod. How do I fix this?

Part of my ITunes library is saved in Icloud and these songs are on my Ipod. Other songs in my library that are not saved in Icloud are not in my Ipod. How do it fix this?

Hello cherijewell,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To learn more about iTunes in the Cloud please check out the article linked to below.
iTunes 11 for Windows: iTunes in the Cloud overview
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12489
Take care,
Alex H.

My itunes stop working when i was buying my songs and none of them saved my money and music is gone.

My itunes stop working when i was buying my songs and none of them saved my money and music is gone.

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By backing up the iTunes Library via saving the iTunes folder on an external drive, is it also backing up all iPad and iPhone backups as well as App Data and Documents from your devices?

If I backup my iTunes Library by saving the iTunes folder on an external hard drive using the instructions contained in the link below, will it also back up all my iPad and iPhone backups as well as App Data and Documents from my devices? In other words, will it also create backups for the backups? Thank you.
Back up your iTunes library by copying it to an external drive
Furthermore, when it is time to restore the iTunes folder I copied to my external drive to a new iTunes program on my new computer, how will it merge the information once I plug in my iPad or iPhone to that new laptop to sync? If I did the iTunes library backup a couple months ago and I've added documents/music/pictures on my devices since then, what will happen when I try to sync it with the new laptop now working off of the iTunes library backup from a couple months ago since the information is no longer the same? Which information will dominate and thus be kept? Will it delete the new information/data/pictures/documents/music off of the devices since it is not on the iTunes program when it syncs?
Sorry for so many questions, but they are all related to backing up and restoring iTunes. I am not very tech savvy if you cannot tell

It would be a good idea to look into a bigger hard drive. They are not that expensive any more and can save a lot of headach. This is even more important if you are buying music from the iTunes music store. If you lost those files they are gone.
The point of having it on your PC and iPod is to have a backup. If the iPod fails, or you need to go back to the DVDs and find they are scratched, or just can not be read you have lost days of work converting and organizing all of those songs.
Or the iPod could hard drive could fail and then you will have to try to bring all of those files back from DVDs. You end up with a mess since some songs will probably be on multiple DVDs, have different names ect. Trying to reorganize it all can be a pain.

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