How can I transfer songs fron iTunes from one computer to another computer?
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There are essentially two ways.  With iTunes you can authorize up to three computers to play your tracks.  Just go to iTunes and authorize another computer.  The second way is even easier.  Just burn the songs to a CD and copy the CD to as many computers as you like.  The downside is that, once burned, you will lose a little bit of quality because of compression.  That's normal, and for most listeners you can't tell the difference anyway.
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If you have an ipod, you can just use it exactly like an external hard disk drive to transfer your music. \nDon't add the songs through itunes, just add them to the ipod icon in finder. Then plug it into the pc and copy the files off it.\nIt will only work if you have a pc formatted ipod though. Macs can read a mac or a pc formatted ipod, but pc's can only read a pc formatted ipod.\n \nYou can connect 2 macs together with a firewire cable and transfer everything super fast, it's really easy, but i'm not sure if a pc can do this. Unfortunately a lot of pc's don't have firewire.\n\nYou could also network them together using a crossover ethernet cable, as long as your pc has an ethernet port.\n\nBuy a pack of cheap blank cdr's or dvd's - bit of a hassle but it's cheap.
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not if you upgrade the itunes  it wont.  The songs should be fine either way,  you will just have to re import them.
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First off, download and install iTunes on the new computer:\n\nhttp://www.apple.com/itunes/download/\n\nYou can run it to make sure that you're installed properly, but quit it before continuing.\n\nNext, burn the folder "iTunes" (on the Mac, found in the "Music" folder of your home directory) to a CD or DVD.  Take the CD/DVD to the new computer (or, use the network to transfer the folder) and put it in the same location on the new computer, replacing any existing "iTunes" folder (assumes that you have no new or unique music on this new computer.)\n\nYou should now see your music when you run iTunes.  If you don't, go to the Preferences command and in the Advanced tab (General subtab) select the correct location of the iTunes folder you copied onto this new computer.\n\nHope that helps!
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Huh?  I have iTunes and I have a Windows XP.  I got the iTunes software with my iPod... If that was what you were asking.  You can also download it at http://www.apple.com .....
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Use iTunes. Select MP3 in Preferences/Import first.
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If you are trying to convert an Itunes file to something else, you can't without a special program. If you are trying to take an Itunes song and put it into another Itunes playlist just grab it and drop it into another playlist. If you are trying to take another song file from something like Windows Mediaplayer, just grab it and drop it in the new playlist. Itunes is designed so that you can't move it's files around the way you can other music files. You may not be able to do what you want to do without a special program.
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Move the files from the USB thing onto your new comp and add the folder into ITunes as you would add any song.
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Follow these steps:\n1. Download iTunes from http://www.apple.com and install it on your computer.\n2. Run iTunes on your computer.\n3. Make sure iTunes know about where your music is. When you install it you can have it search for you music or:\n3a. If your music is already on your computer, click on the library icon on the left of iTunes and open a file window and drag the music files into the large window on the right. If the music is not in mp3 format you must select one or more songs, right click your mouse, and select "Convert Selection to MP3".\n3b. If your music is on CD, insert the CD into the CD player in your computer (you must have one for this to work) and iTunes will read it. Once the songs are displayed, highlight all of them (press Ctrl A after clicking once on one song), right click on the hightlighted files, then select "Convert Selection to MP3". Do this for every CD you want to load into your iPod.\n4. Connect the cable that came with your iPod with the thin wide cable with the icon facing in the same direction as the face of the iPod. Don't force it and make sure the icon of the plug is facing the same direction as the face of the iPod.\n5. Connect the thick narrow cable to your computer to the USB port, it will be the only hole in the computer that it will fit into. Agian, don't force it. If it doesn't go in easily, turn it around and try again.\n6. Wait a few second and iTunes will recognize your iPod automatically.\n7. Once iTunes recognizes your iPod it will ask you if you want to asociate this iPod with this iTunes, just answer yes.\n8. Any music you add to iTunes from this point forward will autmatically be downloaded onto your iPod anytime you connect it to your computer.\n9. Do not disconnect your iPod until iTunes tells you that your iPod has been updated. You can also leave it connected to charge up the iPod battery.\n10. If you add songs after your iPod is connected, the iPod will not be updated. When you add music after connecting your iPod to the computer. Go to the File menu and select Update "xxxx" near the bottom. In this case "xxxx" is the name you assigned to your iPod followed by the word iPod.
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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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Yep, but not with iTunes as you would have realised. There's no shortage of freeware software out there to do that, but if you want it back in iTunes, make sure to remember the directory you're copying the music to, and then in iTunes "Add folder to Library" in the file menu.\nSome applications can be found at www.tomdownload.com
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If your music is already on your new computer, you need to "Authorize" it in iTunes.\nIf you are looking for the quickest and cheapest ways to copy things between 2 computers, just use a "Crossover" Ethernet cable to connect them and make a local network.
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you can transfer any MP3s to your iPod however, to do so, you can't use iTunes.  i use ephPod.  easily syncs to a folder (or folders) and transfers all MP3s and WAV files in there.\n\nhttp://www.ephpod.com/
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Doesn't matter what kind of computer you have. Just buy a USB-drive (2 GB should be okay), and plug it in to a USB port. If it does not automatically open, go to "My computer" and look for the drive, click it, then select all of your music files, and drag them into it. Then wait for them to transfer, and delete them off your computer. Or you can buy an external hard drive (like I did) and do that. That was you have more storage.
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you just right click the iPod icon and click update.  then it'll update all the songs for you :]  or as you stated it'll download all the songs from your iTunes to your iPod
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Use iTunes.  http://www.iTunes.com/
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Save the music to a folder in mydocs/mymusic and then open iTunes and there should be some kind of button (under your account) that lets you import music to your library.