Thedelldays Posted 16 January, 2009 Share Posted 16 January, 2009 my laptop that I have had for about 3 years is dying (screen just switchs itself off now and then) so time for a new one....just wanted to know how the hell can you transfer I-Tunes to a new machines (if at all possible)..? ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 16 January, 2009 Share Posted 16 January, 2009 You install iTunes on the new machine and authorise it to your iTunes store account. You have to manually transfer (CDR, DVDR, HDD) any stuff over that you ripped from CD or from unverifiable sources but any purchases on your iPod will be able to be transferred directly back from the iPod itself and probably won't transfer by any other method. I think. Personally, I didn't want to risk losing anything I'd bought so I burned CDs of all the albums I'd purchased first, but it worked fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 16 January, 2009 Share Posted 16 January, 2009 On the subject, does anyone know how to burn audiobooks to CD? They're all protected even more vigorously than albums and it's ****ing me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 16 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 16 January, 2009 ahh...sod it..got a lot of away time with work coming up from mid/end of next month...will suffer till later on in the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTONS EAST SIDE Posted 16 January, 2009 Share Posted 16 January, 2009 PONTY TRY THIS:One option for unlocking audio books is built into AudibleManager. Audible supports CD burning for most of their titles. When the CD is created, the audio book becomes just like any other CD-Audio disk. Open Windows Media Player, rip the CD and transfer the tracks to a Zen Micro. Keep in mind that a 10 hour book will require about 9 CDs. For a year's worth of Audible books, you may be looking at around 200 CDs to burn and then rip, which takes a long time. The advantage to this method is AudibleManager automatically divides the book into tracks, making it easy to skip through the book to a favorite part or to pick up where you left off. In addition to the series of steps required to get the book from the Audible file format to a CD and back to MP3 or some other compatible file format, burning CDs isn't infallible. I made a few coasters with the AudibleManager before I realized the Roxio burning engine used by AudibleManager was conflicting with the Nero InCD burning technology that boots on startup on the system I used. The only way to turn off InCD is to end the process from the Windows Task Manager. If your system automatically turns on any background CD burning software, turn it off before attempting to burn a CD from AudibleManager or you will waste time and blank CD-R media burning your books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 16 January, 2009 Share Posted 16 January, 2009 You can get an external hard-drive, which you can transfer your files on to while your laptop is still alive, and then you can link the hard drive up to another pc. Maxtor do a good line in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 It's dead easy. Transfer your music onto your new PC. Install Itunes. Import your music into itunes. Click to play one of your songs and it will ask you to enter your itunes username and password. Duh daaa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwaysaint Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 I recently copied my c drive onto the new computer I'll be using and when I put itunes on it had all my previous settings and subscriptions straight away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 yeah ghost the f*cker across to another machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franny's Tash Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 But- what if what's on the ipod isn't exactly the same as what is stored on any given PC? Surely this is the most common scenario? I have stuff on a laptop that was downloaded from a friend's portable HD, plus stuff - mostly ripped CDs on a PC. Some of this stuff has been edited (titles, lists etc) on the ipod only. I was under the impression it was possible to download everything from the ipod (some kind of work around using it as an external drive)? This would be my the ideal solution for me ie get everything in one place and then use that as the new base for imported CDs and everything else. I do recall this q being asked on here at least a couple of times before, and there being an answer along these lines. (Plus an annoying person who replied several times saying oh its so easy just look at the apple forums without actually saying how to do it). Anyone help with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypward Posted 17 January, 2009 Share Posted 17 January, 2009 There's a program called Touchcopy that I used to transfer all of my ipod content to my PC, by Wide Angle Software. Yuo can find it on their website (I'm not sure/can't be bothered to look at the the rules for posting links here). Was easy to use - you can download a trial version that lets you do 40 songs and if you like it you can pay about £17 for the full version (if you decide to pay for it rather than obtain it by other means). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdearlove Posted 18 January, 2009 Share Posted 18 January, 2009 copypod will do it. You can also change a setting in iTunes to set the ipod as an external drive and then browse and copy all the files over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rory Posted 19 January, 2009 Share Posted 19 January, 2009 Why don't you just plug in your iPod and play the music off that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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