Transfer Entire iTunes Library- Incl. apps, movies, books, music, etc.

I would like to transfer my entire iTunes file from my old computer to my new computer. I have only been able to find information about transferring my music, but I would like to transfer my books, apps, etc. as well. Thank you in advance to anyone who can provide any information.

I, too, recently bought a new computer. I first copied the entire iTunes folder to an external hard drive. Once the new computer was set up, I installed iTunes, then first tried to "copy" the file from the external HDD to the new iTunes folder. Ended up with multiple duplicates (2,500+). I uninstalled iTunes, installed iTunes again, and tried "importing" from the external HDD iTunes folder. Again, multiple duplicates, album artwork didn't transfer, etc. Very frustrated! Help!

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How can I do to transfer all iTunes library from my Mac book Pro to Time capsule without to lost the alphabetic sequence of songs & artists? What is the correct way to transfer my 3000 songs to Time capsule, to free the memory of my Mac?
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Next, move the "iTunes Music" folder, located in ~/Music/iTunes/, to wherever you want on your TC's internal hard drive. Remember to leave the Album Artwork folder, as well as the three individual library files where they are on the MacBook Pro.
Wait a while. If you have a large library, this will take a bit of time.
Once the iTunes Media folder has been transferred, open iTunes. Note: It will still be looking at your local iTunes Library on the MBP. As such it will think that the iTunes Media folder is still on the MBP as well. However, we just relocated it to the TC. If you attempt to select any song, you will get an error that the song is "missing." Not to worry, we will correct this in the next step.
We need to tell iTunes the media has moved to the TC's internal HDD. To change where iTunes "looks" for the media, open iTunes and go to the Advanced > General tab and use the "Change..." button to tell it where your new "iTunes Music" library is located.
Once this is done iTunes will likely pop up a progress window telling you that it's re-analyzing your library. Let it complete this step.
As a final check to make sure everything when as planned, click on any library file from within iTunes and press cmd + i (or View > Get Info). At the bottom of the Summary tab in that window is a "Where:" section that tells you the actual file path to that piece of media; be sure that path begins with the name of your TC's drive, and not "Macintosh HD."

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Hi,
I ordered my first mac today and i cant wait for it but i was wondering how could i transfer my entire itunes library from my PC (TV, Movies, podcasts, Music, Playlists)to my new mac via the Wifi setup in my house.

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I have a new hard drive as my old one crashed. Everything seemed to transfer fine except for my entire iTunes library. It shows all of my old songs, but when I click on one it states "the song could not be used as the original file could not be found.would you like to locate it".
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Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to Get Info, then click No when asked to try to locate the track. (Due to a bug in iTunes 12 you currently have to say No twice!) Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, a folder renamed, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions. If the difference between the two paths is an additional Music folder in one path then this is a layout issue. I can explain further if that is the case.
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Can I backup entire ITunes library to external harddrive and then transfer to new PC?

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Moving an entire iTunes library from PC to Mac

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