Transfering music stored on hard drove from other sorces

I am wanting to switch to iTunes, but am wondering if the music I have stored on my computer will be able to be transfer over to iTunes. Some are Cd's that I have on the computer and others are from another service Rhaposdy that are on my hard drive. Can these be played on iTunes?
Thank you!

As long as you ripped your CD's in a compatible format for iTunes, those should be fine. When it comes to the Rhapsody purchases, that is a whole new game. These files are more than likely in protected WMA format which is not compatible with iTunes. The only way to get them into iTunes is burn them to an audio CD, you can use that audio CD to re-import.

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TS1474 I having problems transfering music to my I phone from my other computer.

I synce my I phone with my newer laptop and click manually manage music and videos. But when I connect it to my other computer the box is unchecked. Why can't I do this?

your iphone can only synce with one pc at a time, but when you want to add songs to your iphone for another pc, and you don't want to lose the data that you already have,
1- on your music store creat a new list(on your iphone)
2-press synce
3- the songs that are on the pc, drag them to the play list you created and synce.
that is what i always do

Music stored on hard drive and iPod

Question (and Im new, so be gentle, please!):
Do I have to have all those tunes stored on my hard disk to use them on the ipod, or after Ive copied the songs to the ipod, can I free up my hard disk by deleting the music from the HD??
Thanks!
Acer Aspire laptop Windows XP

just a note.
i would not delete the songs. i have had 6 iPods (just buying one, i just kept swapping it out) and every time you get a new ipod or if you have to restore it for some reason, you would have to get those CD's.
Best thing to do is get an external hard drive (doesnt have to be big at all, just big enough for the music and any more you might add. 250gb will be definatly big enough.) and move your music to that. Then just leave it plugged into your computer and you can listen to that music through iTunes, or just bring it out and plug it in if you need to reload that music.
Also, then you can have a back up for your important documents, photos, and you are essentially making your computer bigger. Watch the ads in the stores. They weekly go on big sales

Transfering music without external hard drive

I purchased a lot of music on my old computer, then in a stroke of very bad luck, my computer broke and my old iPod was stolen. Now, I can't seem to figure out how to transfer the music I bought on the old computer to my new computer and my new iPod. I don't know if there is a way to do this, but all the music I bought before is still in my purchase history, so I don't understand why I can't access it. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thank you,
Sarah

all the music I bought before is still in my purchase history, so I don't understand why I can't access it.
You are only allowed to download an item from the iTunes Store once per purchase. That's why you're advised, even by iTunes itself, to make backups of your purchases.
If the hard drive is still working on your old computer, you can probably install it into an external case and mount it on your new computer and get access to your content that way. If the hard drive failed and you haven't made a backup, you're probably out of luck and will need to repurchase your tracks. You can try contacting iTunes Store Customer Service and explaining what happened. Reportedly in some cases Apple has allowed redownloading on a one-time basis, but don't count on it.

If I restore my iPod to factory settings, will I lose my music that has been added from other computers, even if I've backed up my iPod?

I'm trying to clean out my iTunes and iPod, and in doing so I've realized that I have over a gig of "other" material taking up space on my iPod. One solution I was told about was to restore my iPod back to it's facotry settings (after you've backed it up) in order to help eliminate or help make the "other" section take up less space. I'm worried about doing this however seeing as my iPod has music from three or four other computers on it seeing as I manually sync music to my ipod rather than have it sync on it's own. I'm worried that even if I back the iPod Touch on my computer, that all the other music from the three or four other computers and iTunes' will be erased and only music left on my iTunes, on my laptop will be left over after words. This wouldn't be such an issue if I didn't have litterally THOUSANDS of music to sort through between these four computers.
Also, does anyone have any other solutions on how to reduce the amount that "other" takes up on your iPod? Thanks in advance! Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure if you will loose your music or not, but I have a suggestion. If you sinc your ipod to your itunes, all the music from it should transfer to your itunes, it shouldn't matter whether it was downloaded on that computer or not. If you do this and then restore your ipod to factory settings and you do loose your music, then you can just sinc your ipod to your computer, or itunes account and then you will get your music back. I hope this helps. :)

Accessing Time Capsule and linked external hard drive from other devices and copying to these drives

Hi
Please be gentle. I am not that technically able :-)
I have managed to set up my time capsule. Router working, external hard drive linked, time machine back ups working...
The last thing I am looking to do is to access files on my time capsule and also external hard drive (linked to it), from Mac, Iphones, Ipads, Apple TV, Windows laptops X2. Am I able to do that? Have read so many discussions but dont get the answer. Please be gentle :-)
Regards
Tommy

The last thing I am looking to do is to access files on my time capsule and also external hard drive (linked to it), from Mac
This should be automatic.. find the TC disk under shared in finder.. double click it and see under the data folder.. you can create new folders in there.
Note using the TC for data and TM backups is not the greatest of ideas.. please read pondini.
Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
The external drive is fine though..
Now it can have loads of issues if you run Mavericks.. so if you have trouble.. do not be surprised.. if you run Mavericks.. be surprised if it works without trouble.
Iphones, Ipads
iOS devices are not file based.. they are not intended to be used with a file device like TC and will neither backup to it nor open files from it.. of course what apple wants and what users want are different things so there are plenty of file apps to help you read and write files.
Filebrowser is the major one.
http://www.stratospherix.com/products/filebrowser/
You still cannot backup though.. iOS uses itunes to backup or icloud.
Apple TV
There is nothing you can do with AppleTV.. it is not a file device at all.. it is not even a media player.. it is a streamer. (Early model Gen1 and Gen2 can be jailbreak.. so they do actually have media player ability) Gen3 is tied to its mother's (iTunes) skirts with steel cables.. no JB.. no use really. If you want to play movies from a TC buy a WD Live TV.. it is a player.. !!
Windows laptops X2
You can access the TC from windows..
1. Make sure the TC naming complies with windows networking.. to put that simply.. all names should be short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. Apple wizard will recommend a name for the TC, like
Fred Blog's Airport Time Capsule.. this is wrong on so many levels.
It will be a total pain on windows.. use FBATC or TC or anything you like.. as long as it follows the rules..
Short 2-20 characters.. less than 10 is better.
No spaces.
Pure alphanumeric.
All names must comply.. TC name and wireless name/s
2. Load the airport utility for windows into the computer.. you can download for up to win7.. apple haven't bothered with windows since then and are pretty out of date. The win7 utility will load on win8 with the usual voodoo and astrological help.
3. Windows must be set to home for location.. if you cannot open a command window and ping the TC by ip and name, then pull down the firewalls.
4. In windows explorer type into the address bar directly.
\\TCname or \\TCIPaddress (using, of course, the real name or real IP).

HT1766 How do I load music on new hard disk from Ipod Classic or old hard drive without doing it manually song by song?

How do I load music from IPod Classic onto new HDD without having to load each song separately?

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Loading music via USB mass storage (from other os ...

Does the N* phones support just copying the music files via the USB masstorage device or do you have to use the software?

Copying via usb-storage works fine. I'm a happy Slackware Linux user so no problems there. You just have to remember to go into the music player and do "Options" > "Refresh".
A wireless alternative is to set up an FTP server on your machine and to access data using the phone as an FTP client. I use "SIC! FTP" for that.
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New computer, transfered music via external hard drive, library there but music wont play, message "The song " " could not be used because the original file could not be found. Tech did everything, said call Itunes support

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transfered Itunes library via clickfree backup. New computer Tech support(Premier PC) did this, Now can not play library within Itunes. Message says "The song " song name " could not be found. Would you like to locate it? Same Tech tried different things via on line support could not fix and said call itunes support and say Itunes will not play on new computer.

I was given the option to locate the file where the song is held. If so select "locate" and direct it to the folder / file where the song is and open it. itunes then will give you the option to use this process to update all of your library. OK that as this will do it automatically instead of doing them one by one. I hope this helps.
Martin

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Meanwhile somehow, how it happened i do not know when i connected my ipod to old itunes library i lost all of my original files and blanked out my ipod ???
So what i have now is some duplicate albums and 4442 songs when there should be about 3100, how do i rid myself of these duplicates without doing it manually.
My computer knowledge is somewhat limited so please could i have a response in laymans terms thanx.
Also i can not seem to find my itunes folder which contains 20gb of stuff on my computer only a small portion of it is visible, and another thing as i have lost my old itunes file i suppose i have lost my playlists for good ?
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Transfering Music to ipod between computers

I tried transfering music to my ipod mini from a different computer than usual, but it wiped out my old library. When I went to my original computer to get my old music back, itunes said that there was another user using my ipods software and that I couldnt update my ipod. HELP!
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we'd better check on this possibility:
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This drives me CRAZY that iTunes will allow me to classify my .mp4 music videos that I get from other sources (NOT bought from the iTunes store) as a Music Video but iTunes STILL keeps it classified under the Movie listing. Does anyone know how I go about or what is needed to get my music video files in the Music Video list?
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Problems importing mail from other apps

I cannot get an Intel Mac until I have successfully transferred all my email to OSX from other apps that only run in Classic. I managed the Outlook Express mail perfectly by importing it into Entourage. Unfortunately I cannot get the same result for the (older) Netscape mail.
This is the situation : Netscape Communicator is on an external HD with the emails (in System Folder:Preferences:Netscape Users). I use Classic to see all the messages and folders, but cannot import them into either Entourage or Thunderbird. What happens is ...
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HT4914 My music is stored on an external hard drive. All music that I buy, whether from itunes or some other provider, automatically gets loaded onto my external drive. There is some music on my computer drive as well. Will match work in this circumstance

My music is stored on an external hard drive. All music that I buy, whether from itunes or some other provider, automatically gets loaded onto my external drive. There is some music on my computer drive as well. Will match work in this circumstance?

I followed all the instructions for consolidating my music into one folder on my external hard drive. (I'm struggling with this because my ext HD was renamed when I synched my iPod shuffle last night. The "E:" drive has now become the "F:" drive and all my songs have those dreaded exclamation points next to them. Exploring my computer, I found "My music" folders in two place on my C: drive and one place on my external hard drive... and the song list in each place is different.
Argh.
So... following the directions in the article reference here, I attempted to consolidate all of my songs into one folder on my external hard drive.
But.. I checked the song list when the "consolidation" was complete... and MANY songs are missing. They're still on the C: drive, but don't appear to have been copied to the new folder on the ext HD.
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Transferring music from peripheral hard drives

I just go a new mac mini(old one died with my itunes libraries) and I have music stored on several peripheral hard drives what is the best way to get it into the new computer that as yet has no music in it. I want to store the music and library on one of the peripheral drives and play from that.

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Transfering music stored on hard drove from other sorces

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