Transfering music into new computer

My old laptop died and the information/music on it is irretrievable. Now, on my new lap top, I just downloaded itunes again, but if I sync my itouch with it, all the music on the touch will be lost. is there any way i can transfer the music from my itouch back into my itunes library? (since it's original source is now dead?)
I don't want to lose the ratings I have been keeping tabs on my itouch ;-(

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Transferring itunes music into new computer

just bought a new computer and im trying to transfer my previuosly purchased itunbes music into here it says i have to register the new computer with apple id but i dont know how to new help. Thanks!

i think its asked u to sign in on ur itunes and icloud account. and then, after sign in. u might be able see everything that u had purchased on itunes. and transfer them.

HT1329 My old computer crashed but still have my IPOd with old music. How to transfer the music into new computer which has already music in it?

My old computer crashed and I still have my music in an IPod. How to transfer the music/playlists into a new computer which has already music in it? (Not possible to copy ITunes of old computer in IPod)
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Lucky for you, I just found out how to get the music stored on your iPod by messing around with it. I'm not much of an Apple user (I only have a shuffle), so I'm not 100% sure it would work the same way as yours.. but it's worth a shot.
if your iTunes didn't sync with your iPod yet,... that would be great..
1, Make sure your iTunes does not automatically sync with your iPod (I don't know if this would help..)
2, Click on your iPod and go to settings, check "Enabe Disk Use"
Your iPod should now have a partition on My Computer called AFJCHAW's IPOD or whatever you named your iPod... If you go to that disk, you'll notice there's nothing in there.
3, Click on Organize at the top right part of Windows Explorer(Windows 7, don't know how in XP..), go th the Folder and search options, view tab, and click on show hidden files, folders, and drives.
If you go back to your disk, you should be able to find a folder
4, It'll be pretty straightforward then. Go to iPod_Control/Music. You'll find folders there. Inside the folders are each of your music files (they're renamed but the Details would still be about the same).
If you did get your music files back from this procedure, then, yay! it worked!!
If you didn't,.... it should've worked..

Transferring music to new computer

Hello, I'll try to keep this brief, sorry, I'm new to these forums too.
I am buying a new computer with a PCI-E setup because I currently run a lowly AGP and I am starting fresh, new hard drives, new everything.
How can I transfer all my music from my iTunes library on my current computer to my new computer?
Should I authorize my new computer and de-authorize my current computer?
I would like to keep my entire library of music and transfer it.
Any suggestions? I love my music but do not want to lose it all just because I am getting a new computer....

The cd will appear inside of iTunes, and you can import the songs to your library from there. Otherwise, you can open the cd in explorer, and simply drag the music folders into the iTunes program. Everything should import fine.
When you're creating the data disc playlist in iTunes, it should tell you at the bottom of the playlist how many mbs the files are taking up. However, I'd simply put ALL your music into one playlist, and when burning iTunes will inform you that it will take multiple discs to complete the session. Agree to this and after it's done burning files to one disc, you simply insert another. And so on, depending on how much music you have.
here's some more info:
iTunes for Windows 7.1 Help: About burning CDs and DVDs
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.1/en/541win.html
How to back up your media in iTunes
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392

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i just bought a new laptop after my old one crashed. i have been following apple's instructions in the article "how to use your ipod to move music to a new computer." i am able to do all of this except when i get to the step which says to open up the ipod and drag the itunes folder to the my music folder. my problem is that i do not see the itunes folder when i open up my ipod. if anyone can help me and give me any insight on what i can do to find that folder or to finish this process i would greatly appreciate it! thanks so much!
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See this migrate iTunes library post for the steps I normally recommend. It may be easier to redo the transfer if the library still works on the original machine.
Otherwise are you certain that all the media was copied across? I have tools and suggestions that can relink the media files if they have been put into the wrong layout as long as there is still a degree of structure, but if they are nowhere to be found then they can't help.
The locate button doesn't necessarily start you in the right place to look for a missing track. If it were that easy iTunes ought not to need your help at all.
tt2

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CG

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Hi,
See this link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449
Jim

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I Have a Ipod Classic that all my music is on. After my previous computer crashed I have not had any of my music able to be transfered to the new computer from the Ipod. Is there a way to do this

I Have a Ipod Classic that all my music is on.
After my previous computer crashed I have not had any of my music able to be transfered to the new computer from the Ipod.
Is there a way to do this?

Unfortunately, unless you have a backup and can restore the iTunes library to the new computer, you are stuck with the current state of the iPod. This is one of those things that makes doing backups so important.
Unless your music is all purchased from iTunes (not from your own CD's that you imported into iTunes and then downloaded to the iPod), you will be able to re-download all your iTunes store music back to the iPod when you install iTunes on the new computer. When you first attach the iPod to the new computer and new iTunes the first time it will tell you that this iPod is synced with another iTunes library and let you initialize the iPod (which will erase everything on the iPod - so don't do this unless you don't care about the stuff on the iPod now).
I've seen 3rd party apps in the past that will let you copy music/content from iPod to computer and bypass iTunes, but not sure if they still exist as this was several years ago.
good luck

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