A few months ago my laptop broke Ive now got a shiny new one but all my music is on the old hard drive of my old laptop. I have taken the hard drive out of the broken laptop (it was a screen break rather than a computer meltdown) and i have a portable hard drive unit that I can put it in. Do I download itunes onto my new computer and then just move the itunes file from the old hard drive into the new itunes folder or is it more complicated?? I know under normal circumstances I could just downlaod a programe to extract my tunes from my ipod (ive done it before when I had i blonde moment) but I havnt got everything on my ipod at the moment and dont want to go ripping it all off my cds again : : Bring back the good old record player please!!!
I know i shouldve backed it all up but Im a bit of a "live for the moment!" kindof person and its things like this always bite me on the bum Ive now installed Itunes on this puter and it has made an Itunes folder. My thoughts are that i get the old folder off the old hard drive and just move it into the new folder Im just wondering if it will work or if I will end up with something going wrong and losing the lot Im sure someone will knowthe amswer before i go and do something stupid : :
i think if you brought your music off iTunes you can just re download it so long as its logged on to the same account if you got it from “somewhere else “ get it from there and if you get caught blame woodie
i think it might be locked to your old laptop the music that is i couldn’t get to mine but mine was all brought off iTunes luckily all the PORN woody got me was easy to get at lol
Just one word of advice. De-authorize your old computer from your iTunes account. I think you can have upto five computers for one iTunes account.
This is the best article I found for moving a library http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/ If you can access your hard drive files then above should be fine. However, you cant usually just take out a hard drive and pop into a new computer as the operating system/hard drive/computer hardware are all linked therefore Rickydoodleus suggestion may be your best option. If just a screen break ... attach old laptop to an external monitor and then copy over what you want. Good luck
i keep my itunes library on an external disc for this very reason. i tunes looks at the hard drive and the itunes folder on it - then when i upgrade machines - i just point the new itunes to this folder and it 'see's' the files good luck
Get yourself iTunes match. For £25 it matches all the music you put on your iTunes so it's available on any device that you authorise. I ripped my 400 cd albums onto my pc, (admittedly I do what Maro does and have them all on a backed up external drive but hey go hindsight is great huh), but I am safe now that should something happen to the hard drives I can just log into iTunes on a new pc and download any or all of those albums. I use it as cheap online storage. It also allows me to access my entire library on my iPhone.
This is what I did. I became SO frustrated with all the damn securities, plus the inability to transfer data from one device to another (because, as you know, just because we paid for it, that doesn't mean we own it like in the old days. We've just secured the the right to play it on this one device.) I finally just went back to cassettes. Yes, I was THAT frustrated. I am a much happier person today because of it. Mixed tapes are just as fun to make today as they were in the 80's. Vintage audio equipment is fun to collect, sounds far superior to modern electronics, and it just looks sexy. The best part is I don't pay for music anymore. I joined a high quality streaming music site for just $5 a month. I make a playlist on the site then just jack my cassette deck into my computer headphone port and record it. It may not fit in my pocket, but I can play a cassette in my car, at home, or in my vintage boombox and it never needs charging. Plus the old boombox and scattered cassettes look and feel SO right in my bus. O0
