Transferring itunes songs to new computer

I recently bought a new home computer. How do I get all of my old songs that were on my old computer and transfer it to my new iTunes? Is that even possible?

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Transfering iTunes files to new computer using external USB hard drive

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If you want to transfer your complete iTunes library to a new computer preserving all your playlists and library information, but without using your iPod as a hard dive, or without burning a CD or DVD, you can do it by using an USB external hard drive following these easy steps:
1) Quit iTunes
2) Connect your USB external hard drive to your computer and acccess it thru My PC or Windows Explorer.
3) Create two new folders in your external hard drive (you can name them LIBRARY Backup and PLAYLISTS Backup).
4) Open the LIBRARY Backup folder.
5) Open another Windows Explorer or My PC window; open the iTunes Music folder (usually located in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My documents\My music\iTunes).
6) Copy all of its contents (only the contents, not the whole folder) to the LIBRARY Backup folder you created in your external USB Hard Drive.
7) Close both the LIBRARY Backup folder from your USB external hard drive and the iTunes Music folder.
8) Open the PLAYLISTS Backup folder from your USB external hard drive
9) From your iTunes folder, copy the iTunes Music Library.xml to the PLAYLISTS Backup folder.
10) Close all the windows and extract your USB external hard drive from your PC ()
11) Install iTunes in your new computer.
12) Using Windows Explorer open the iTunes Music folder (usually located in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My documents\My music\iTunes).
13) Connect the USB hard drive to your new computer and open it using another Windows Explorer window.
14) Open the LIBRARY Backup folder and copy all of its contents (only the contents, not the whole folder) to the iTunes Music folder in your new computer. After the copying is complete, close this folder.
15) Copy the PLAYLISTS Backup folder to you new computer’s desktop.
16) Close Windows Explorer and extract USB hard drive.
17) Open iTunes
18) From the File menu, choose Import. Navigate to the iTunes Music Library.xml file on the Desktop and click Choose. The imported playlist will show only songs located on the computer's hard disk or external media.
19) You can now delete the xml. file from your new computer’s desktop if you wish.
PC Windows XP Owner of 5th Generation iPod

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Transferring itunes to a new computer

i am transferring itunes from my windows xp to my new windows 7. how do i do it? thank you all very much for your time

boy i got a **** of alot more easier idea that for christ sake. im going to make this software extremly popular! anyways no dont do any of that if you got your ipod loaded with all the songs on your old library you already have it backed up. Then you go to your new computer and download some software i cant remember the name of youl have to email me at [email protected] tommorow so i can get back to you with the name of it. That software will copy songs from your ipod onto your computer and automaticaly put them into your new itunes library. Problem solved

Transferring Itunes Playlists onto new computer!!!

This weekend I purchased a HP 64 bit tower with Windows Vista. My main concern with making a smooth transition from my old computer: *How do I transfer my Playlists from my old computer (or from my ipod) to my itunes library on my new computer? I have about 10,000 songs, so you can imagine how long it will take for me to reconstruct all of my playlists if I lose them Thanks!*

johnnc46lp wrote:
I just transferred my 16,600 songs from my iTunes on old HP DEsktop to new HP Envy Desktop
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from old computer to /Music/ on new computer. Do not copy only the songs.
Open iTunes.
That is all you need to do. Your library is moved with everything the same.

Transferring iTunes library to new computer with Windows Vista OS

Using the Apple Support Guide I have tried to move my iTunes library to my new laptop using my iPod as the back up device. When I went to copy my music to my new computer by dragging the iTunes folder out of the Music folder to the desktop, a message occurred saying I must be the Administrator to do this (I am) so it would not complete the task. Instead I have located the iPod in Computer and dragged the iTunes folder into the Music Folder and replaced the iTunes folder in Music with the iTunes folder from Computer (i.e. iPod).
When I open the iTunes folder in Music, all the folders with all my music are there. However when I open the iTunes program there is no music in the library that shows up. If I sync my iPod will all the music then be transferred into the iTunes library?
As we have moved overseas I no longer have the old computer so the backup on my iPod is the only backup of the music we have so I don't want to risk deleting it.
Many thanks for any help.

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Missing Playlists when transferring itunes library to new computer

I have moved my itunes files from my old computer to my new computer. I went into Preferences to link to the new file, but the library and songs do not show up in itunes. I went through the files and added the songs manually to the library, but the playlists are not there? What did I do wrong? Also, what should my response be when the window pops up when I connect my ipod? Should I select no or yes when it asks if I should change the link?

Please check this out, it'll help you transfer everything properly:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=123549&messageID=607339

Replacing computers transferring ALL songs to new computer

How do you transfer all downloaded itunes songs and songs imported from CDs from an old computer to a new computer?

Easiest way would be to turn on file sharing after connecting the old & new PCs together.
Other ways are outlined in this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1373

Uploading itune songs to new computer

I just bought a new computer and while updating my itunes it told me I had a number of songs that cannot be updated because they have already been allocated to 5 machines. These are old work machines or home machines that I no longer use. I do not want to lose all these songs. Is there a way to get these uploaded?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420

Transferring purchased songs to new computer

I'm in the process of saving all the information I have stored on my current computer because I'm set to receive the new iMac within a few days. I would like to transfer all my purchased music (from iTunes Music Store) to the new computer -- is it best to burn audio CDs and re-import in the new computer? Is there a way to transfer one's entire iTunes library to a new computer?

BookCase, there are several ways this can be done. If you are going to burn, you need to burn as data CD's not audio as data CD's will hold much more content. You can back everything up to an EHD, plug in the EHD to the new G5 & drag the whole folder back into iTunes. The EHD is what I wanted to do when I moved from a PC to a Mac 3 weeks ago as I had backed my whole library up to an EHD for over six months. It didn't work because I had formatted the EHD where the Mac couldn't read it. The 3rd option which is what I ended up doing is a nice little 3rd party app, iPodRip. It worked like a charm, opened it, attached the iPod, clicked on recover, & BAM, 13GB library was transferred into the new Mac. The only thing I had to do was drag & drop my playlists from iPodRip into iTunes. If your interested in iPodRip, check on Versiontracker.com. Hope this helps!

Transferring itunes purchases on new computer to iphone

I had to get a new computer. I purchased some new songs in itunes but now it won't allow me to transfer to my iphone - with error message that my iphone was synched to a different library. Interestingly enough, it would let me transfer to my ipod touch

The iphone will sync/manually manage with one and only one computer at a time. If you sync/manually manage with another, then it will erase the current content and replace with content from the new computer.
Copy everything from your old computer, or your backup of your old computer, to your new one.

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.

Can't sync iPod after transfering iTunes content to new computer.

After following these instructions very carefully http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329 to use my iPod to transfer my iTunes content to a new computer, I cannot sync the iPod to the new computer's iTunes. I see all my music in the iTunes Library, and have authorized my new iTunes, but the music won't sync. When I hit sync, it says it's syncing, then a few seconds later says finished syncing, but nothing is on my iPod. Can anyone help?

Did you review if the sync settings you had established for your iPod carried over? You might have to re-select what you want ynced.
Just a thought, if you are not getting any error messages.

Transferring Ipod songs to new computer

Hi All,
I looked at the instructions to transfer my ipod songs onto my new computer and while they were crazy long, I think I could have gotten through it. One problem, I don't have my old computer.
Is there anyway to transfer the songs on my ipod, other than my purchased songs, onto my new computer?
The thought of digging all my cd's back out and loading them into this computer isn't my idea of fun.
Thanks for any help!

Check these out:
Third Party Options
Move Music to a New Computer
I hope this helps!
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Authorizing iTunes songs on new computer

I recently purchased a new iMac and then upgraded to iTunes 7. Now when I plug in my iPod it tells me it can't copy 92 tunes to the iPod because they are not authorized on this computer. The songs were all legally purchased and I deauthorized my old computer (and I never had 5 devices anyway).
For the life of me I can't figure out how to get the tunes copied onto the iPod. Help!

Thanks for the hint KoDor.
I got the same problem just upgrading to iTunes 7.0.2 from 6 and solved it in the way the article suggested. However, the process needed to be done a couple of times before all of the files were transferred.
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I have transferred my music to new computer but music is not showing in iTunes - although is on the computer as if I select a song from the folder it will play that song via iTunes. How can I get my music to show?

I have transferred my music to a new computer following the instructions carefully but for whatever reason the music does not show on iTunes on the new computer. The music is there as I can access it via My Computer and if I select a song it will show in iTunes and play - however I can not do this for every single track! Can anyone suggest something I have done wrong????

Media was moved via external hard disk, and I think I moved the iTunes Media folder after consolidating it.

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