EZ iTunes transfer

You’ve spent hours organizing your complete music library into iTunes and finally got it just the way you want. Well now you decide you want it loaded on to a new computer or even multiple computers. There are many programs out there that claim to be able to transfer all you music and playlists for you, well maybe those programs do work, but why pay for something that you can do for free. I will give you easy step by step instructions to seamlessly transfer your complete library of music I did last night and it worked great, the longest part of it was just copying all of the music to a temporary location with either a usb drive, or external hard drive. The whole process took less then a half hour.

1. On the old computer, open iTunes
2. Click Edit –> Preferences from the menus
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Click the check box next to Keep iTunes Media folder organized (if it isn’t already)
5. Click OK
6. Now close iTunes and copy your entire My Music folder to an external hard drive, or you can do as I did and pull the hard drive from the old computer and use an USB hard drive adaptor to connect it to the new computer.
7. DON’T COPY THE MUSIC TO THE NEW COMPUTER YET.
8. Instead, download and install iTunes on the new computer
9. Start iTunes and repeat steps 2-5 (above)
10. Close iTunes
11. Open the Music folder on the new computer
12. You should see an iTunes folder, double-click it
13. Now you will see either an iTunes Music or iTunes Media folder (doesn’t matter what name it has)
14. Click one time on the folder and delete it
15. Connect your backup media device to the new computer and navigate to the My Music folder and open it
16. copy all contents in the My Music folder
17. Paste the files to the Music folder on the new computer
18. Click yes when asked if you want to overwrite any existing files with the same name
19. Close open Windows
20. Start iTunes and your library, including playlists, should be there.
Let me know if you have any questions with this 