Comments on: How to Transfer iTunes from One Computer to Another

By: katie

katie — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:47:32 +0000

Hey I have both a MAC book and a PC desktop… I am on my PC more now then my laptop… I have 12 days worth of music on my laptop, none that was purchased all cd’s from friends and family members.. I need directions on the best way to transfer from the MAC to the PC.. I don’t care about rating or anything like that.. I will take the time to figure that out I just need my songs on a bigger hard drive and on the computer i use more often…if you can help the more basic you are the better im not the best with computers!

THank you so much

By: Flick

Flick — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:21:17 +0000

thank you, this was made very easy for myself who isnt that computer confident. I only wanted to do this for the playlists and wasnt sure if it would work until the end of the clip where you say ‘it will even move your playlists’ i think you should make this more clear at the beginning for people like me, who care about their playlists
thanks again

By: Ratnasari K.

Ratnasari K. — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:21:50 +0000

Muna, the way to move your iTunes library to another PC is similar to the way you do this for Mac. however, be careful when moving between Windows XP and Windows 7, as folder locations of your iTunes Media folder are different.

If you would rather risk less, I would advise you to use a program which automatically backs up and transfers the contents of your iTunes library to another PC. You can find of such tools throughout the web. Here are some instructions that have proved useful for me:

http://transfer-itunes-to-new-computer.blogspot.com/p/how-to-transfer-itunes-from-pc-to-pc.html

There is also a good Apple-provided article on their support page on how to do the manual transfer (be careful with the manual, though).

By: Muna

Muna — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:18:19 +0000

Hi, does this work between PCs? I can see the video only talks about Mac? I want to move my entire iTunes library from my WinXP to my Win7. Thanks for your help. I am completely blind when it comes to computers. I only want my music to work out fine with the move.

By: Shea

Shea — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:38:07 +0000

Thank you for posting this. The first time I tried, all the song information transferred fine except for the ratings. So I deleted the iTunes library .xml file as well as the .itl file and re-imported the .xml file I edited and voila–it did the trick. This saved me a lot of headache and hassle–many thanks!!!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:21:41 +0000

Okay, so I’ve followed all the steps, and while I can import the library and all of my playlists come over with the dates/ratings/times played/etc. only 1/4 of my songs actually make it into iTunes. The playlists have them there, but they do not play. At first I thought it was because the “iTunes media folder location” was wrong, so I changed it to where my files were, but the same thing happened. The only thing I can think of, is that the music I have is in folders (and sub-folders)I received from people, and even iTunes when you purchase a song implants it about 3 folders deep. Do I need to move every individual file into one folder instead of the folders they are in? This is an annoying process. I was so excited when the playlists copied over. I thought I won, but I didn’t. Please help.

By: David

David — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:21:42 +0000

YamiPod is a freeware can manage the content of your iPod without the need to have iTunes installed.

By: ralph

ralph — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:54:10 +0000

Great tutorial! I am looking forward to trying it to create a copy of my library on my new Mac Mini.

Question – does this preserve “Date Added” and “Last Played” metadata? These drive several of my Smart Playlists?

By: TZ

TZ — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:26:18 +0000

Hi – - I’ve used your instructions twice. Thanks. Works great.

By: mitch

mitch — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:51:18 +0000

Please help me I am confused and drowning…….I have just bought a new MacbookPro Laptop and an iPod Classic [160g]….I had my whole library from my “previous” Classic iPod downloaded to a PC then transferred to my new Classic iPod….no biggy except I didn’t own the PC that was used to do the transfers. So now I want to purchase from iTunes on my new Macbook Pro and download to my new classic iPod……heres the catch….i had to register my new ipod with my new laptop. The new laptop has recognised that i already have a shit load of songs on my ipod that did not come from this laptop. so it wants to transfer them to my iTunes Library on my Laptop. Question is this……..will my laptop then allow me to transfer them back onto my iPod once it has been transferred once. I am suspecting it will ban me from transferring again back onto my classic iPod once transferred off it.. Can anyone help.