ipod question

[beast5680]

Hi all , i suspect this will be easy to answer but i cant find it, if i have a new laptop how the hell do i transfer all my tunes over to it from the old one for i tunes? so i can use my ipod with the new one?

cheers

[piggysteve]

According to daughter number one you can buy a program to do it, or put them on a memory stick to transfer across to the new pc. Save the tunes onto the new pc from your memory stick, then open them using Itunes which should allow you to put them in the Itunes library.

Steve

[robkav]

Can't you just log into your itunes from another pc?

[beast5680]

Can't you just log into your itunes from another pc?

its not logging into itunes thats the problem its the fact i,ve only used the other computer to do itunes so all my music is on it and i want to put it on the new laptop

[Jake]

Its fairly simple.
Transfer all the iTunes folder to the laptop from your PC.
Instal iTunes on the laptop.
Once installed, double click to open iTunes and hold the shift key for 5 secs.
This will open a window and click the choose library option.
Tell it where the iTunes folder is now and select the iTunes Library icon (there is a date on the end of the icon name - something like itunes library 2009-02-28)

Works for me

 :D

ps

This may help
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329

[dxmedia]

Can't you just drag the database file over after dragging all the music over?  Should keep all your playlists and everything if you do that?

Should be in somewhere like

my docs > music > itunes

just drag that whole folder over in one go, and all your music if it's somewhere different.

[Saffy]

is this a DRM issue?

[dxmedia]

In part yes.

Only being able to plug your ipod (although very easy to get around) is a DRM issue.

The database and playlists and default music location are all that is in the itunes database, so that also needs messing with.


There is nearly enless information on google on all of this.

[andrew2986]

There is a program called senuti.
I used this when my mac hard drive crashed and I needed to recover all my music from my Ipod.

Andy