TS2972 Transferring Music via HomeSharing

I am unable to "drag" (transfer) music from my PC to my son's Mac.
You can see, and play, the PC's library on the Mac, but I am unable to add it to the Mac's music library.
I thought I was able to copy/drag the music over.
Thks for any insight,

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Problems after transferring library via Homeshare

I've recently transferred my itunes library from an old PC to my new laptop, via Homeshare, which seems to have worked fine.
As I won't be using the old PC anymore, I have deactivated all computers registered and re-activated the laptop and this seems to recognise both the laptop and my Iphone as devices.
The problem is that when I try and sync music to my Iphone, after choosing what I want from the library on my laptop, it tells me that my iphone is still 'linked' to my old PC. I had thought, once I had deactivated the PC, it would revert to the laptop.
Can anyone advise me what I need to know now, in order to have the library on my laptop as the one and only library?
Thanks

AB,
Once you have built your library on the new computer, and verified that it has everything, go ahead and sync your phone to the new machine.
It may be that the new library is identical to the old one, but the iPhone does not know or care about that! It just syncs to the library that give it.

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I just bought a new computer and downloaded itunes. I bought a few new songs to add some new flair to my iphone's overplayed library. Since I have home-sharing, I thought it was simply authorzing the computer and then adding the songs to my phone. I tried dragging the songs but it wont add onto the phone's library. I dont want to lose all the music on my phone, so am I missing a step or how do I add these songs without syncing and erasing my iphone's library?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
If you are saying that the phone has not been synced with iTunes before, then yes, when you sync for the first time it will delete any content already on there. However, if they were purchased on the phone and use the same ID as iTunes on the computer, your content can be redownloaded.
You can re-download content purchased from the iTunes store (availability varies depending on location) using the purchased option from the Quick Links section in the top right corner of the iTunes homepage in your iTunes application on your computer.
You can re-download content purchased from the iTunes store (availability varies depending on location) using the purchased option which is revealed in the iTunes app on your iOS device by tapping the more button at the bottom of the screen.
To add content to the phone from the library on the computer, you will need to sync it via iTunes.

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The song is not saved in your computer hardrive, so itunes cant find the file. One thing you can try is using IpodCopy
It takes your music from your ipod and puts it onto your computer. Download this software into your new computer and try it out. I've never actually used this so dont ask me about problems that u may have. To be safe, put your ipod in manual update before you try it.
-Taps-

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The transfer of non iTMS content such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there is a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows. The procedure is a bit involved and it won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's posted in this thread: MacMuse - iPod to iTunes
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Hi,
I am looking for any help with this issue, I am about to throw my phone in the bin!!
I am transfering music via my pc, when i get about 5 songs into ANY cd, the programme (nokia pc suite, latest version) says it has encountered an error and must shut down, this is not isolated it is any cd I try!
I am using a 1 gig memory card and therefore know I have plenty of space,I have tried different conversions and different rates of conversion!
I am at the end of the line with this flippin' phone......any advice would be gratefully recieved.

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mbellot wrote:
I'm not sure if this will help you or not...
I did some additional testing today and "fixed" my problem.
I grabbed a new (almost fresh install of XP) laptop and installed a Jabra USB BT dongle with the MS BT Stack. Then I installed DM 5.0.1 and plugged the phone into a USB port to get it past the initial configuration.
Unplugged the BB from USB, went into Device Manager, enabled BT and searched for a new device. It forund the 8350i and finished pairing. Switch from USB to BT connection and DM5 could communicate with the phone (same as the original laptop).
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TS2972 Transferring Music via HomeSharing

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