iTunes help

[broon]

I searched...

I got a new laptop and will be using this to load music on my iPod from now on. All the music was stored on an external drive. Is it possible to move the library from the old laptop to the new so I don't have to recreate playlists and album artwork? The drive will have the same letter as before.

 

[aphex]

What format is the external drive? Fat32 or NTFS?

 

[broon]

The external drive is Fat32...Western Digital USB drive. The current machine is XP, the machine I want to move it to is Vista.

 

[Agentbolt]

Was the old laptop a Mac as well? If so, then it'll work fine. Just copy over your "Itunes Music" folder and the proper files will be read so your playlists and junk will be moved.

If the old computer was a PC, there's a way to move things over still, it's a little trickier though, you have to rename the playlist file to not end in .xml or something. I can look it up for you if that's the case, but again, if it's mac-mac, you're golden.

 

[broon]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Was the old laptop a Mac as well? If so, then it'll work fine. Just copy over your "Itunes Music" folder and the proper files will be read so your playlists and junk will be moved.

If the old computer was a PC, there's a way to move things over still, it's a little trickier though, you have to rename the playlist file to not end in .xml or something. I can look it up for you if that's the case, but again, if it's mac-mac, you're golden.

It's a PC to PC transfer.

 

[Agentbolt]

Originally posted by: broon

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Was the old laptop a Mac as well? If so, then it'll work fine. Just copy over your "Itunes Music" folder and the proper files will be read so your playlists and junk will be moved.

If the old computer was a PC, there's a way to move things over still, it's a little trickier though, you have to rename the playlist file to not end in .xml or something. I can look it up for you if that's the case, but again, if it's mac-mac, you're golden.

It's a PC to PC transfer.

Then you're still fine. Copy the Itunes music folder and move it to the new computer, and in Itunes options under "advanced" make sure it's pointed at that folder. Probably also make sure the "keep itunes music folder organizer" option is checked.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Make sure the .xml file is copied over from the My Music folder.

 

[mshan]

I think you can just open up iTunes on your laptop, select copy files when adding to library and keep music files organized by iTunes, both in the preferences tab, then select all music files on external drive and add them to iTunes on laptop.

Just don't delete files on external hard drive before you confirm that all files and tagging have successfully been transferred to internal laptop hard drive.