Moving music to new computer

[peapod1980]

My ipod is almost one year old and still has only one song on it. Oh, and I have never heard that song and have forgotten what it was. Maybe this Christmas my chillren will help me.

Good luck pea!

I think I need to fly into Big D for an iPod intervention. By the time I complete this task, I should have my Master's in iTunes.

Pea, I'm about as zippedy-doo computer inept as the Kitty. I opened up your thread just to see exactly what kind of advice she was giving you.

Not her arena, Mermy. She's a specialist--cracking hacker code. :funn:

So wouldn't it be smarter to download the songs from other vendors like RealPlayer, where you weren't limited to only one copy of a song? You could then load them to your iPod, as well as have a CD copy, and copies on each of your computers.

You can have all the copies of iTunes tunes you want, SJ. You can authorize multiple computers to use for iTunes purchases, and nothing prevents you from burning CDs from iTunes-purchased songs. Again, it's not the songs bought through iTunes that is the problem; it's everything else stored in the library that makes it tricky.

 

[Mango]

Mangy, since only about (only!) 300 songs have gone missing, I think I may just burn these onto disc and transfer to the new computer. I suppose if I discovered that all the music is now consolidated and appears to be together, I could wipe out the library on the new computer and "re-dump" it. Though that makes my head hurt. Can you come over?

What are you eating for dinner? :scratch:

I think you should try the export feature first since he dropped and dragged, especially if you're not sure that he dropped and dragged before you did the file consoldation.
Hail uploading 300 songs could take a while.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Pea, I'm about as zippedy-doo computer inept as the Kitty. I opened up your thread just to see exactly what kind of advice she was giving you.

Me too!

I think I need to fly into Big D for an iPod intervention. By the time I complete this task, I should have my Master's in iTunes.

Not her arena, Mermy. She's a specialist--cracking hacker code. :funn:

...my fann club!

 

[Minnie]

Pea, I'm about as zippedy-doo computer inept as the Kitty. I opened up your thread just to see exactly what kind of advice she was giving you.

me too, I thought oh my, this is definitely the blind leading the blind. ;-)

But while I can navigate the computer fairly well, can't help you with IPod.

 

[peapod1980]

Think I solved the mystery. The files that didn't transfer basically didn't consolidate. Not sure why they didn't/won't, but they appear individually in the "My Music" folder but not within the iTunes library. My initial guess that these were shared (free) files from other sources seems to be true, too. So maybe there's something that prevents them from moving. Which, knowing Big Brother Apple, I'd bet is the case.