iTunes question

No just want the music to be transferred really

In iTunes:

Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced Tab

The iTunes Music folder location will tell you where your music is currently.

You can copy the path and paste it in Explorer to browse to that location.

This will help determine how large the library is.

Copy the music to a USB stick or drive which hopefully has enough free space.

Determine the iTunes Music folder location on the new machine as it's not always the same path.

Then copy the music from the USB stick or drive to that folder on the new machine.

cheers dmc!then update the computer?

id all that, and have the music in a file, but can't get it onto itunes....

From iTunes Help: Importing music and video already on your computer

If you have audio or video files on your computer, you can import them into iTunes so that they appear in your iTunes library.

Here are ways to import files into your iTunes library:

Choose File > Add to Library, and locate a file or folder to add.

Drag a file or folder from the desktop to the iTunes window.

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/19/how-to-keep-your-itunes-library-on-an-external-hard-drive/

i used that link and it worked perfectly.

my entire itunes library is stored on an ehdd. no music on my laptop thus saving space for pictures and the like. when the laptop is unplugged from the ehdd and you try opening itunes the question marks appear, but the moment you plug it in everythign works perfectly. its a neat way of keeping your tunes if youre as obssessive as i am and/or have a massive collection.

you can probably download another version?
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13097

btw murtle, tried that link but i is an upgrade, unfortunately i don't have iphoto on my mac so there's nothing to upgrade... so once again if anyone has an iphoto family pack going spare let me know please

Thought I'd revive this thread for another reason - hope nobody minds.

I'm trying to import a CD to iTunes at the moment that has added content (music videos, mini-site etc.). The problem is that iTunes doesn't seem to recognise it so I can't import it. If I go into explorer, I can only see the added content rather than the music tracks.

Is there any way I can get around this? It's doing my head in...

i have an itunes question, too!

this is driving me absolutely bonkers. i was clicking on a song or something a couple days ago, perhaps too vigorously and near the edge of the screen or something because my itunes completely reconfigured the way it's viewed, and you know how at the top you can get a scrolly thing with all the artists or albums or whatever you want to look at, then you select an artist or album and you get the list of all their songs on the bottom and the scrolly list stays at the top.... right, well i want the scrolly thing back. i feel like i've tried everything in the "view" column, and i've tried the random clicking that started this problem in the first place... but nothing.. this is what it looks like now. driving me crazy.. it's impossible to really skim through. ok anyway, anybody know the solution?

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there are three boxes all next to each other just to the right of the timeline/status bar (top centre). click the left of those three, and that should go back to the list browse view. ?

but you have a different version than me, so not 100%...

Change to column view in the cluster of three buttons to the left of the search bar.

(or you're talking about the "browse" feature in which case)

Click "View" -> "Show Browser".

nope.... there are 3 little boxes there but they just give me different, annoying ways to view the music, all sans scrolling list. i tried clicking all around them but to no avail.

yes! jono thank you that was it "view browser". and so logical. i thought i tried everything in that tab but apparently not. wonderful, thank you! =) and thanks you too, hassan. modern technology... it's a doozy.

too late...

Thought I'd revive this thread for another reason - hope nobody minds.

I'm trying to import a CD to iTunes at the moment that has added content (music videos, mini-site etc.). The problem is that iTunes doesn't seem to recognise it so I can't import it. If I go into explorer, I can only see the added content rather than the music tracks.

Is there any way I can get around this? It's doing my head in...

Anyone?

CD likely has some anti-piracy gubbins on it... try Googling the artist/album online for advice, or try viewing/copying from the disk under a different OS (Mac, Linux, etc).

Also, try creating a duplicate of the disk using something like Toast, the gubbins may not copy across.

(Or just torrent/download the tracks.)

I am starting to dislike iTunes.

Much prefered it when there was no UK iTunes store. No movies (crap) or TV shows (all crap).

The "Genius" sidebar...crap!

My particular iTunes hate is that you can't change the view if browsing your ipod or someone elses shared library, so you're stuck with a big long list. Give album view dammit!

I have a friend who downloads torrents and uses iTunes. He's using PeerGuardian as an IP blocker, but has relaised that he gave all his personal information to iTunes when he opened his account with them.

I know that applications like iTunes Genius claim they don't use your user info - just your music info, but surely they can ascertain whether my friend has paid for the tracks through iTunes, ripped them from a CD or downloaded them from a torrent?

Am I Is he fucked? Or is Apple really not that bothered about someone who's paid for 99% of their music when there are people doing far worse things out there?

Apple can't tell where your music is from unless it is tagged with their DRM (and therefore bought through the iTunes store), not legally anyways... you're fine.

I doubt they care where your old music is from, but they do want you to consider buying all your future purchases through iTunes, hence the Genius bar recommendations and such like. There is little pint in investing money into finding out how people purchased their music in the past... there's oddles of info out there about piracy patterns anyway. The key will be to grabbing the emerging legal downloads market, which Apple is seemingly mastering at the moment.

How do I move the iTunes folder to an external HD?

I know how to copy it over but do I need to do anything in iTunes to tell it that the new place for storing my files is external?

click itunes in the menu bar > preferences > advanced then you can change the directory that itunes music is located

Will that re-direct everything? Movies etc...

Will that re-direct everything? Movies etc...

It should do - I'm part way doing the same thing myself - as long as your movies are in the 'iTunes' folder, everything will transfer over. It all works fine, but it can be a pain in the backside sometimes having to have the external drive plugged in when you want to run iTunes. I'm also much more nervous about losing my music collection now that it's steadily being removed from the internal HDD.

yep, should do, movies and tv shows are all in their own subfolders in the itunes music folder