How does itunes work?

Andr3w

Andr3w

Andr3w

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I have loads of music on itunes, I have a lot of CD's I have imported onto it as well as music I have bought from itunes itself.

Now I am going to be upgrading my computer and i wondered how I go about keeping all my songs on itunes? Do i have to rebuy all the songs and import all the CD's again? That seems rather annoying.
 
Of course you don't. :p

There should be an iTunes folder somewhere in your folders (I'm assuming you're on Windows).

Just save that folder and place it back into the same place, when you've installed iTunes (program alone) on the wiped/next computer.
 
Helps if you remember to de-authorise the machine for your account before you wipe the machine as well, you can only have a certain number of computers active on the account (5 I believe) and these can disappear fairly quickly if you forget to de-authorise old machines before you wipe the hard drive...
 
bigredshark said:
Helps if you remember to de-authorise the machine for your account before you wipe the machine as well, you can only have a certain number of computers active on the account (5 I believe) and these can disappear fairly quickly if you forget to de-authorise old machines before you wipe the hard drive...
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Good advice. You can ask Apple to remove old computers if you forget and reach the limit but it is a pain.
 
LordSplodge said:
Good advice. You can ask Apple to remove old computers if you forget and reach the limit but it is a pain.
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I had wondered about that actually, I presume it's just a phone them job? I'm actually at 5 now so I'm having to be rigorous about de-authorising machines when I rebuild them.
 
It's very straightforward. When you get to five, you can log onto your iTunes account and de-authorise them all. I recently did this after having sat on four for years! I hit five and immediately did the de-auth thing so now I only have two, which is the two systems I actually still have.
 
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