How to move iTunes to a new computer

[Mark]

(Sorry this isn't witty or anything but hopefully it's just useful)

After spending hours faffing around and fruitlessly looking up on the net how to move itunes to a new computer (when the music is on an external hard drive), someone told me how to do it at the weekend and it worked. Hopefully it'll save someone else lots of time and anguish and swearing at your effing computer.

1) Locate and copy iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml from your old machine to somewhere on your new machine

2) Hold down the shift key and open iTunes on the new machine, it'll ask you what library to use and point it to the iTunes Library.itl you just put on the new machine

3) When iTunes loads, double click a song, it'll say can't be found, so browse for it. That resets the library to look in the the new location.

[Annasfield]

Or just download idump and get everything straight off your ipod. :)

[Mark]

I thought about that but Ipod is 80gb and music/videos etc is 160gb

[Annasfield]

My old laptop died last year and I spent about 8 months with all my old play lists and no new albums on my ipod. Finally got it sorted the other week and it's like having a new one.

Small things........

[Andystar]

gawd i really want to install linux on my ipod but its not compatible as its too new..does that make me a geek??

[jimmy two times]

What's idump?

[Jeremy]

.

[Mark]

jimmy two times Wrote:

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> What's idump?

Apple's new portable toilet

[ruffers]

Mine's got Rockbox on it, don't go near itunes.

[AllforNun]

er ... buy a Mac and get with the program !

much lv

AFN

[capt_birdseye]

AllforNun Wrote:

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> er ... buy a Mac and get with the program !

>

> much lv

>

> AFN

Found this today, made me chuckle:

Charlie Brooker hates Macs