my laptop has too much stuff on it and i am gonna delete some stuff.  How can I save my itunes library somewhere else cheaply.  Somewhere else that is not my ipod.
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iTunes doesnt take up that much memory at all.\nAll Programs>Accessories>Disk Cleanup\n\nYou should be able to get alt more memory like that.
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I assume you mean that your laptop is almost out of disk space, not memory.\n\nThere are many external hard drives that will plug into the USB port on your laptop and will store a lot of music.  I have purchased some that hold 250GB of storage for $129.  They are perfect for that type of application.  Just make sure that your laptop has USB ports (preferably USB 2.0).  Unless it is more than 5 years old, you should be fine.
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Nope that recently happened to me and I lost everything, pictures, programs and all music. You need to either save them all to Cd's or download them onto an ipod.
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there is a free program called pod util that you can get off of the internet... type podutil into yahoo and do a search... if lets you get songs off of your ipod and on to your computer
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yup... iTunes>Preferences>Advanced>Importing
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What you probably did is delete the songs from your library, but not from your computer. You have to go back and add all the songs to the library. What you can do is have iTunes open at the same time as the folder as where your songs are stored. Drag the songs to iTunes and they will be added to the library. Hope this helps,\n\nBrian  N.
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sorry but, you have to use iTunes.
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use a firewire to move them quikly or if you want to do it for a little cheaper you can move the hard drive to the other computer and make it better unless you want both, then use a flash drive to move it in between computers, will take a while, but it is simple to drap the music files from the computer to the flash drive, then the flash drive to the other computer
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Please see the apple help documents below, it is easier than what I did which was copy the library folders onto a usb drive and then copy them over to my new computer
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No, if you reinstall itunes all of the songs will be there but you have to import them again. "they won't be erased"\nif you need more help ask me without hesitating.
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buy it,thats the easiest way though it may be a hit on your pocket.other metods are:\n1  to delete all the traces of that software from ur computer (which is next to imposssible,by theway).but i have seen people doing it.best of luck\n\n2 this is much easier than the first.install a p2p software(limewire,bearshare,morpheus etc) and try searching there \nfor a full version.might work
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When looking at you Library there should be a choice in the middle that says exsplore. That will bring up a box with all your songs in it. Sent them to Your Windows media and burn.
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Itunes allows you to put the songs on up to 5 computers if I remember correctly...if you only need it for one additional you are definately safe!
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you can use a flash drive. since you have i tunes im assuming you have an ipod also. you can use the ipod as a hard drive / flash drive too.
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open "my computer" and right clink on the C drive, thats how u see if it's full or not. in that window there is also a "free space" button, it erases files u dont need that ur computer generates by it self. if u delete a file its sent to the trash can, if u delete the files from the trash can u cant get them back and they dont affect ur space. if u have a lot of music and u use itunes, u might wanna check if itunes "copied" the songs to the itunes folder, that way u have each song twice and it takes more space. hope i helped
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Check this out ... Extract from\nhttp://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=159372&start=0&tstart=0\nOption 1:\nAssuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/\n________________________________\nOption 2:\nThe manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.\n\n- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET\n- open iTunes\n- open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running\n- connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing\n- open 'My Computer'\n- Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'\n- open iPod icon in My Computer\n- open iPod_Control folder\n- you should see a folder named Music\n- drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive\n- after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'\n- clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'\n- Close that explorer window\n- eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.\n- disconnect the iPod from the computer\n\n- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window\n- File menu &#92; Add folder to Library &#92; find that Music folder copied over from the iPod\n\nYour iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!\n\nLong time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:\n\n] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.\n\n] Download this program:\nhttp://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip \n(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)\n\n] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.\n\n] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.\n\n] Notes:\n- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.\n- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.\n- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.\n- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOriginal thread for Otto42's playlist recovery: http:
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delet itunes, and download limewire at limewire.com, its free super simple, u can download free songs pictuers and moveis all for free. i have had it for 2 years and i lov eit, i can burn the songs on there to