Unable to authorize music from old computer

My Mac book pro hard drive was recently replaced due tointernal failure beyond my control and unfortunately my time machine back uphad not been working properly. Therefore I lost A LOT of things from my oldhard drive including my music! I was able to recover SOME music from the ITunesstore website but now I am unable to play MANY of my songs because they werefrom my OLD OLD computer which was a PC. It asks for an authorization from myprevious aol/apple account and I am unaware of the correct password apparentlyand it is not excepting my security question for whatever reason! I canabsolutely prove I am the owner of the previous account but its not giving meany other options to recover my password! Soooooooo frustrating!

Check out:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329 How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527 iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer

Similar Messages

  • HT1386 i am unable to sync music from my computer to my iphone 4s, i am getting an error message that stares that my iphone cannot be used because it requires 11.1 or later. my phone is updated as well as itunes on my desktop so I dont understand

    i am unable to sync music from my computer to my iphone 4S i receive an error message stating that it requires 11.1 or later and that i need to go to the itunes website to download that, ive done that and still am unable to proceed.

    Okay, you are using Windows 7. What version of iTunes do you have. Please don't tell me the most current one, go into Help then About iTunes and read what it says.

  • How do i recover music from old computer. its broken and i did not have the music backed up on any other hard drive.

    how do i recover music from old computer. its broken and i did not have the music backed up on any other hard drive.

    OK, well, seems like you need to lose the attitude if you really want help.
    There are several ways to get music from iTunes on your computer to your device.
    The easiest is to sync directly with iTunes by connecting your device to your computer, selecting the device, setting up your Profile pages, and then clicking the Sync button to sync.
    First you want to open iTunes and under Preferences>Devices, make sure that you are not syncing automatically:
    Make sure that box is checked.
    Then follow the instructions in the article below for either your computer or your Mac to set up your Profile pages and to sync your music via iTunes:
    WINDOWS IOS SYNC ITUNES 11
    iTunes 11 for Mac: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
    You can also directly download music from iTunes to your device by going to the iTunes icon, going to "Purchased", and selecting the items that are not on your device that show a little cloud next to them. Click on the cloud and the music will download.
    You might also want to familiarize yourself with your iPhone 5 manual. It has all the answers you cannot find on Google or by trying to just do it by brute force. If you would take a little time to read about your device and how to use it, you might not be so frustruated and unnecessarily snarky to people who are trying to help:
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
    Best of luck,
    GB

  • New computer,  want keep ipod music from old computer to new?

    new computer,  want keep ipod music from old computer to new?

    Hi mtscott41,
    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
    I understand that you have music on an iPod from your old computer. You now have a new computer but do not want to have the music from the iPod erased when you sync to the new computer. If the music on your iPod was purchased from iTunes you can either transfer those purchases from the iPod to your new computer’s iTunes Library or you can download the previously purchased content directly to your iTunes Library from iTunes. Please use the following article as reference for transferring purchases.
    iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
    The following article will show you how to download all of your previous purchases directly to iTunes if you would like to proceed this way.
    Download past purchases
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
    If the music on your iPod was not purchased from iTunes and you still have the old computer, you may want to use a process called Home Sharing to transfer that content to your new computer. The following article explains Home Sharing.
    iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4620
    I hope this helps,  
    -Joe

  • Move music from old computer to new-help

    I am having problems. I went through all the steps to transfer my itunes from old computer to new. I can see my music on my ipod when i go through my computer, but when i open itunes they arent there. Please help someone!!!!

    sounds like you skipped a step. do you have a "iTunes" folder on the ipod with your music and the itunes library.xml file?

  • Cannot authorize music from old AOL accounts

    I'm having a hard time authorizing old music from aol accounts. Every time I'm prompted to authorize the music, it tells me to change my account (which I've already done). What do I do?

    I was having the same problem after just getting a new computer. I was communicating with an Apple representative via email which helped me realize that I never converted my AOL account, I only created a new Apple account so everything had been on 2 separate accounts on my old computer. After realizing this I clicked on a song I wanted to play and it prompted me to authorize the AOL account. From here it then prompted me to update my AOL to an Apple ID. I used a different email, because the other apple id I created used my aol email so it wouldn't let me convert to that id. Ok so this all went successfully and I left billing info and everything the same. I clicked to authorize under the new apple id and it said authorization successful, but it still wouldn't let me play the songs. I looked into my purchase history and the songs I was trying to play were in fact under that account. I was confused and stumbled on this thread of posts. I simply looked at the post saying to deauthorize and reauthorize, and it worked! So I don't really know what happened, but that simple step worked. Thanks!

  • Transfering Music from old computer to new MBP laptop HELP!

    I nees to transfer ALL of my iTunes music to my new MBP, can I just put all of my music onto a flash drive and then deauthorize that computer, then put songs from flashdrive on the MBP and authorize that computer? If I do this will my music still be organized like it was on my ild PC? Like album name, artist, title, etc? Answer ASAP please and thanks in advance!

    Okay. What do you want from this process? Do you want iTunes to appear exactly as it did on your old computer?  The way I have described several times before tells you how to do this.  Copy the WHOLE ITUNES FOLDER from your Finder (you do not say what source computer) or Windows browser or whatever, to the flash drive.  Drag it from the flash drive to your new computer and replace the iTunes folder on the new computer (I presume you have nothing in it now).  Start iTunes and everything will appear identical to your old computer.  Playlists, artwork, everything.  Three major steps. Drag, (move flash drive to other computer), drag, open iTunes.
    The video tells you in a somewhat long-winded (and in my opinion not necessarily best) way to end up copying just your media files to a flash drive.  It then adds them all back into iTunes where if all works well iTunes will end up processing them as though it has never seen them before. If that's what you want, fine, because that's what it does.  If the tags are correct on the files you will see the names, etc., but with the qualifiers I mentioned before.  You say you want them organized like they were on the old computer.  For most people this means ratings and playcounts and playlists.  That is not what you will get if you drag just media from drive to drive via the flash drive.  You will only accomplish that using the whole folder method I have described.  If you do not want your old playlists well, I guess you can do the video method, but even then my method is easier and you can always delete unwanted playlists.
    The video method is essentially the same process if the source computer is a Mac, again if your goals is to start over with a fresh library but your old media files.

  • I am having problems with my music collection, after burning all of my music to the computer I organized it into folders and placed it in the iTunes Folder. Starting on a new computer now. I can get my music from old computer?

    I am having problems with my music collection, after burning all of my music to the computer I organized it into folders and placed it in the iTunes Folder. As of now i realize this was a mistake. Starting on a new computer now. I cant get my music to transfer from the itunes folder on the old computer? I keep getting error "Can't Read from the source file or disk." Whenever I got to folder properties its always checked read only. But when i play the song it works just fine. Im sure this is just because I added music into itunes folder but is there anyway to fix it?

    WMA files are 'window media audio' files, which is a Microsoft format. If you want to add them to your iTunes library on your Mac then you will need to convert them into a compatible format first. If you still have your windows machine then iTunes for Windows can convert them from WMA to MP3 format : https://discussions.apple.com/message/24158701#24158701
    Or try a search for, for example, 'convert wma to mp3' to find programs to convert them.

  • Moving music from old computer to new computer

    I recently purchased my MacBook Pro and I am trying to move all of my music from my old computer to this one. You might think that simply copying the songs to an iPod (as files, not music that can be listened to) and trasferring them to the desired computer would solve my problem. However, this has proved unsucessful so far. I am trying to avoid importing all of my backup CDs because the album artwork would be lost. Is there a way to hook my two computers up via FireWire or something else? The computer I want to transfer music from is an iMac - one of the new flat panels but without the built in iSight so it has FireWire ports. Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated.

    If your iPod is large enough, you can transfer the library without loosing anything (ratings, play counts etc.) using these instructions:
    How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer.
    Another method is to connect your computers by Ethernet or Firewire.
    Using the latter method, put the source computer in Firewire target disk mode. The MacBook will see the iMac as an external HD.
    You can then copy all your music to the MacBook.
    If your MacBook has the same file structure (folder mapping and username) of the iMac, copy the entire iTunes folder (including iTunes Music folder and the library files) to the same location on your MacBook. iTunes will recognize the library and find all songs.
    Hope this helps.
    M
    17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Several ext. HD (backup and data)

  • Transferring music from old computer to new

    I lost all of my music while trying to sync my Ipod touch to my new computer. However, I still have my Itunes library on my old computer, which is on its last leg. This includes many songs copied from CD's, which would take hours to duplicate. Is there any way of copying the Itunes library other than with a USB device as the USB ports don't seem to be working? It doesn't seem to be recognizing the ethernet cable either, so CD?

    - You can burn to CD and then import from that CD on the new computer.
    - You could also take the HD out of the computer and place it in an external enclosure that has a USB connection and then connect to the your computer and import.

  • Transferring music from old computer using ipod

    I recently transferred music from my old computer to my new computer using my ipod by following the directions in apple support (article 300173.) I already had music in itunes on my new computer when I added the music from my old computer. Now all the music that I had loaded prior to the transfer comes up with a message "original file could not be found." Have I lost this music for good?
    MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)
    MacBook   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

    If you dragged the file called 'iTunes' in to the music folder in the finder and it asked 'do you wish to overite' then it has probably overwritten the folder tha t already existed
    (with the new music in).
    If you haven't emptied you trash it might be in there, but don't click retore the trash just drag the folder onto the desktop.
    Hope this helps.

  • When I first opened my ITunes acct, I had a different computer. How do I get the music from old computer to sync w/ music on new computer?

    Any help is greatly appreciated

    Do you mean that you want to copy the music from your old computer over to your new one ? If you do then there are some methods described on this page for how to do it : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
    If you want to copy the music back from your iPod then File > Devices > Transfer Purchases should copy your iTunes purchased music back from it. For music from other sources (e.g. copied from CDs) you will need a third-party program on your computer to copy it back from the iPod - there are some programs listed half-way down this page : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

  • How to transfer itunes music from old computer to new computer

    I am sure someone has asked this question before but darned if I can find it anywhere...I have a new computer and want to transfer my music (which was loaded from CDs) from my old computer to my new one. I also want to keep my playlists that I spent time setting up. But when I plug my ipod touch into my new computer it simply asks me if I want to wipe all the music on it and replace it with what is in itunes on the new computer ie. nothing.
    Help!

    Quit iTunes and click over to your My Documents folder. Inside this folder, go to My Music. Inside My Music is your iTunes music folder. Now, copy this to a flash drive (if its big enough), an external hard drive, online using backup services like Mozy, or burned onto a CD-R or a DVD. You can even enable Disk Use on your iPod and move it there.
    After you copy the iTunes library, disconnect whatever you used and take it to your new computer.
    *More reviews:* [iPhone Transfer|http://www.softwarebbs.com/wiki/IPhone_Transfer]

  • Just bought a new computer How do I get all my music from old computer to the new one?

    Bought a new computer with Windows 8.  How do I get all the music off my old computer transferred to the new one.  All the music on the old computer is in the cloud.

    Copy the entire iTunes folder from your old computer to your new one using one of the methods discussed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527.

  • How to transfer my music from old computer to new computer

    I would liketo use home sharing to transfer all my music from itunes on my old computer to itunes on my new one. I have followed the steps for home sharing but my old itunes library will not show up in the side menu on my new computer. Both are windows computers

    Does the old hard drive still work? You can buy an external hard drive case and transfer data to your new Macbook Pro and recover your itunes libary. As far as i'm aware, Apple have not created software or allow you to move music from ipod to Mac.

Maybe you are looking for