Transfering library from one itunes account to another itunes account

Is it possible to transfer my library from my ipod touch itunes account to my ipod nano itune account?
If it is possible how would I go about in transferring my library or some of my songs between accounts?

Ok first of all, you don't need different iTunes libraries (if that is what you mean by "accounts") for each iPod. You can plug many different iPods into the same library and use them with the same library. And you can even sync each iPod in a different way from the others, still using the same library.
So is that what you are wanting to do, have everything in one library and use both iPod with that one library?
Or am I misunderstanding the question?
Patrick

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I'm going a little bit crazy trying to figure this out to be honest.
If all you read is the next paragraph that's fine, it's what I want to do. The rest is an explanation of what I've tried already, thanks:
*Here is my situation. I want currently have ~90GB of music on an 3.5" external USB drive. I now have a larger capacity 2.5" portable hard drive that I want to keep my music on so I can carry it with me anywhere. I also want to maintain playlists and play counts, etc. Seems like it should be easy, not.. haha.*
What I did first, before reading a guide (http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/), was change my iTunes music directory under Advanced, then simply moved all music from one drive to the other. Discovered iTunes couldn't find anything. I tried manually changing the filepath within the iTunes Library.xml file, that worked for some songs, but not everything. Then I read the guide and realized (I thought) how iTunes works. So I moved everything back to the old hard drive and reverted to my original iTunes library xml file. All music was working again, on the old hard drive, ugh. Step 2:
I again switched the directory to where I wanted it on the new drive. I then clicked "consolidate library". Oh, keep in mind I have always had the "let itunes manage my files" and "copy files to music folder" boxes checked. iTunes did its thing for a while, yet it only copied about 18GB/90GB to the new drive!! The majority of my music was not there.
Please tell me how to do this properly. It takes 2 hours each time I copy 90GB of music and I'm tried of going back and forth. If it can't be done, fine... I'll simply move the music and re-add all of it to the library and lose my playlists and play counts, but this doesn't seem like it should be that difficult of an operation, seriously. Oh, one more thing, I don't want to rename my new drive the same as the old because I named them based on storage capacity. Help!

Yes, those instructions are essentially identical to the ones on the link I posted. When I follow those steps only 20% or so of my library is copied. I try clicking consolidate again and it doesn't move anything else. Oh, and not only that, but when going through the iTunes Music Library.xml file, I still find some references to the old drive, which should not exist when I have told iTunes to manage my files and clicked consolidate.

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I need to move my iTunes library from one external disk to another, because the original disk is about to fail. So, I went into iTunes Perferences --> Advanced, and set the library to a new, empty folder on the new drive.
Nothing changed. I expected all my music to vanish from iTunes, so that I would have to re-import it. However, all the music remained, still on the old disk. At this point, if I were to recreate the library on the new disk, I would have all of my music twice.
Is it possible to move an iTunes library from one external drive to another, or am I stuck with my original choice until I buy a new machine? If I can move it, can one of you clever folks explain how it could be done?

Paul Seymour1 wrote:
However, those are all dealing with old versions of iTunes that still contained the Advanced --> Consolidate Library command which is no longer part of the app. (I'm on iTunes 10.6.1.)
Consolidate is still part of iTunes.
It is in iTunes menu File > Library > Manage library > Consolidate.
The article you linked to is old and it is (and was) a hacky way of doing it.
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Thank you so much for replying! I'm not sure I quite understand, though. The media folder is in (2TB) /iTunes/iTunes Music/Music currently, cloned from (1TB) /iTunes/iTunes Music/Music. If I copied the /iTunes/ folder from 1TB to the 2TB, I'd be doing the exact same thing as when I cloned it, which I'm willing to do if I'm understanding you correctly.
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I copied all my itunes library from one external hard drive to another. I backed everything up first then reimported into itunes. About 100 of my MP3 files are in Windows Explorer and the files appear Ok but they are not adding to itunes. The songs is listed in my library as if its there in my playlists but I click on it and nothing happens in tunes. The song won't play if any format from what I've tried. I have researched on itunes and looked on the boards here and I think it is something to do with the encoding of the files, as when I click on 'get info' for the song everything comes up the same as the songs that are working only there is no profile/channel/encoding on the first summary screen. I have tried to import again from my windows folder after changing the encoding 'Import Settings' but it does not work. I also get that (-50)Error when I try and change the settings on the file. Any help is much appreciated.
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Message was edited by: Garrett Holt
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tl;dr somewhat - cloned iTunes folder from one non-boot internal to another; changed Media Folder Location in Preferences, both boxes below checked; iTunes still plays music off old location. Help!
First off, I have a Mac Pro in which I have a 1TB drive separate from the boot drive simply to house my iTunes media folder. I have been running out of space on the drive, so I purchased a 2TB drive to move my iTunes media folder to. I had been allowing my iTunes Library files to stay on my boot drive in their default location, but after reading more about how the library files + media folder work, I decided to copy all of the library files to the 1TB drive iTunes folder, to mirror the boot drive's. I used Option + open iTunes and selected the copied library file and everything worked perfectly - I mention this in case this has created the problem I'm now having.
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