Transferring itunes from old desktop to new laptop

painstakingly ollowed instructions on how to use ipod mini as hard drive, but found out none of my music tranferred. i have access to my old itunes - can i transfer directly from desktop to laptop? thx.

Hi there,
As i remember it Apple's answer is not insane.
Music sync'd to an iPod using iTunes doesnt show up as files (they're 'invisible'). As I remember it is only files that you hand copy to the mounted hard disk that do show up.
If that's true then to see no music files after an iTunes sync is normal. Problem is the usual utilities wont allow you to transfer the 'invisible' music up onto your new PC.
1/ Make sure music is transferred in 'hard disk mode' and if it doesnt then show up then it isnt copied.
2/ Use one of the un-usual utilities which circumvent Apple's attempt to prevent copying of music from iPod to a computer. E.g. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/

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