iTunes Question

azibux1

azibux1

azibux1

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Hi,


I recently transferred my songs from my old laptop to my new PC.

I followed some instructions on the Apple support site and 'consolidated' my library and ended up with a duplicate of every single song

I have now sorted that out on my PC, so I only have one of each, however on a lot of the songs, on my laptop, I had gone into the options and changed the start time of the song, to get rid of some blank silences at the start of some of the songs

When I transferred the music to my PC, iTunes has not remembered these edited start times, or my playcounts

I transferred some iTunes library files and got my playlists back, but is there any files I can transfer to get these edited start times back?


Hope you can help, :)
 
I don't know what the consolidate feature does exactly, but I've moved quite a few peoples itunes from one pc to another over the years and find that what works for me is this:

install itunes on new machine
open itunes on new machine and set your preferences
close itunes
copy the entire itunes folder from the old machine over the newly created itunes folder o the new machine
job done!

This assumes you let itunes organise your music and copy all of your music into the itunes folder. If you don't do this (i.e. your actual music files are not moved to the itunes folder when importing music into itunes) then you will have to copy your folders containing your music from the old machine to the new one. Depending on where you put them on the new machine you may have to tell itunes where to find your music files in the itunes on the new machine (iirc you will see a '!' next to songs in the itunes library where itunes cannot locate the actual song file, if you double-click a song you can navigate to the location of your music and itunes should ask you if you want it to scan the given directory for others songs that it cannot resolve).

Of course this may not apply to you in your situation, it's just that I get asked about this a lot and thought I would give my complete method for moving an itunes library and all of the songs :)

The only other place I can think of where you may find itunes metadata is:

C:/Windows/[your user account]/AppData/

one of the subfolders may contain Apple/iTunes metadata (you will have to enable 'show hidden files' in folder options to see these I think). The machine I'm on at the mo doesn't have itunes so I can't be more precise I'm afraid.
 
davethe11 said:
I don't know what the consolidate feature does exactly, but I've moved quite a few peoples itunes from one pc to another over the years and find that what works for me is this:

install itunes on new machine
open itunes on new machine and set your preferences
close itunes
copy the entire itunes folder from the old machine over the newly created itunes folder o the new machine
job done!

This assumes you let itunes organise your music and copy all of your music into the itunes folder. If you don't do this (i.e. your actual music files are not moved to the itunes folder when importing music into itunes) then you will have to copy your folders containing your music from the old machine to the new one. Depending on where you put them on the new machine you may have to tell itunes where to find your music files in the itunes on the new machine (iirc you will see a '!' next to songs in the itunes library where itunes cannot locate the actual song file, if you double-click a song you can navigate to the location of your music and itunes should ask you if you want it to scan the given directory for others songs that it cannot resolve).

Of course this may not apply to you in your situation, it's just that I get asked about this a lot and thought I would give my complete method for moving an itunes library and all of the songs :)

The only other place I can think of where you may find itunes metadata is:

C:/Windows/[your user account]/AppData/

one of the subfolders may contain Apple/iTunes metadata (you will have to enable 'show hidden files' in folder options to see these I think). The machine I'm on at the mo doesn't have itunes so I can't be more precise I'm afraid.
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Thanks :)

Will try this and let you know what happens :)

May be a couple of days...

I'm not entirely sure what consolidate does either lol
 
Just thought that I'm not actually going to try the above as I have already downloaded new songs on my new PC, so I'll lose them then if I go back to my collection on my old laptop. It's a lot of work for something that is not really worth it

Thanks for the info though, will come in handy for next time (Y) :)
 
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