Introduction
Today I have been looking around the Web for tutorials about how to move my iTunes library from the old PC to the new Mac.
Although I have found quite a large selection of instructions and walkthroughs, I kept ending up with an incomplete iTunes library. And by incomplete, I mean missing the Album Artworks, or play counts etc.
At the end, I figured out a simple way, to completely transfer my iTunes library, without losing any data, using some of the tricks I have read about.
Since it worked, I am going to show you the exact required steps. As well as, how to then share the iTunes library on your local network.
Backup
Before attempting to follow this tutorial, please backup your PC iTunes library files, which should be located at My Documents/My Music/iTunes.
1. PC – iTunes preferences
The first step is to gather all music files in one folder.
In fact this could be a network folder, which you are sharing between your PC and Mac, or a simple local PC folder.
Head to the iTunes preferences, Advanced tab, and select your desired folder (Change… button).
Make sure you tick the following two options:
– Keep iTunes Music folder organised
– Copy files to iTunes
2. PC – Consolidate iTunes library
Now we are going to ask iTunes to gather all music files in our previously selected music folder.
Just click on File -> Library -> Consolidate Library
Don’t worry, iTunes simply copies and doesn’t move the files from their original location.
3. Make the music folder accessible to the Mac
Here you have two options, either share the music folder on your network, or directly copy the files on your Mac. This is entirely up to you, depending on how and where you prefer listening to your tracks.
4. Mac – iTunes preferences
Now that you have copied or shared the music folder, it’s time to tell Mac iTunes where to find the files. Thus, fire up iTunes, and go into Preferences, Advanced tab. Same as before on the PC, select the music folder, and tick the two check boxes.
5. Transfer the iTunes library
Quit iTunes, open Finder, and go into your home folder. Look for the default folder, called Music. In Music folder, find the iTunes folder, and delete it (assuming that you don’t need it, or that it is empty).
Once you have done that, copy the complete iTunes folder from your PC to the current location on Mac. You don’t have to rename any files, even leave the iTunes Library.itl file as it is.
6. Edit the iTunes Music Library.xml file
This is the final, and the most difficult task that you have got to perform.
On your Mac, Music/iTunes folder (that you have just copied in the previous step), you need to edit the iTunes Music Library.xml file. Thus fire up your favorite text editor or TextEdit.
Now the aim is to fix the file path for every file on the xml document.
This can be done in a single find/replace action.
Around line 10 of the xml file, you ‘ll find the Music Folder path:
<key>Music Folder</key><string>file://localhost/…/iTunes/</string>
This is the path that you have set up on your PC.
Therefore copy/paste the complete path as you see it on your xml file, and then replace it with your path (set on steps 4-5).
If it’s a network folder then it will look like “file://localhost/Volumes/share-name/music-folder/”.
Else it should be something like “file://localhost/Users/your-username/music-folder/”
Once you have finished the replace action, save the file, and open iTunes!
You should find your complete library including the Album Artworks, play counts, etc.
Troubleshooting
If you are trying to play a music file, and iTunes cannot find it, then you have probably got a wrong path on step 6. The easier way to discover the correct path is to add a new music file, and then find the corresponding entry in the xml file, or try/find the path on Terminal.
Optional – Sharing your iTunes library
If you would like to access your iTunes library anywhere on your local network, then go through the following two steps:
– Mac iTunes: Preferences -> Sharing -> Share my library …
– PC/Other Mac iTunes: Preferences -> Sharing -> Look for shared libraries
Enjoy!
Hi
I just came across your explanation of the PC to Mac move and i keep having the same problem with this xml part – where exactly do I find it? Lots of xml files come up on My Mac but when I look in my new iTunes folder I’m unable to find any xml files….
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks so much
Victoria
@Victoria:
On step 5, you are supposed to copy the iTunes folder from the PC (usually found on My Music), to the Mac (your home folder / Music).
On the target folder that I have just mentioned, you are going to find the iTunes Music Library.xml file and edit it according to the instructions of step 6.
Thanks for these great tips. I successfully moved my library from Windows to OSX this weekend. Here are a few observations from my experience:
1) Make sure you are running the same version of iTunes on both the PC and the Mac
2) If you’ve solely used iTunes as your music repository on the PC, there’s no need to consolidate your library
3) As of iTunes 8.1.1 there’s no need to edit the XML file if you drop the iTunes library in its default location on the Mac (users//Music). iTunes is smart enough to see that you have a library in that folder and makes the change for you! I suspect Apple will be adding a utility to the Mac for this whole migration soon.
@Craig:
I’m glad it worked for you.
Thanks for your remarks!
On step 5 you said to “copy the complete iTunes folder from your PC to the current location on Mac. You don’t have to rename any files, even leave the iTunes Library.itl file as it is.” However, the same issue that I continuously run into is HOW do I copy my PC’s iTunes folder to my Mac, I have followed steps 1-4 verbatim, and I chose to share it on my home internet network (password protected), but I do not know how to go about “copying” it to my Mac. Please get back to me ASAP I am having great difficulties trying to copy my music.
Thanks,
Laura
You can mount a Windows network share directly from the Mac Finder (Connect to server …) or use a USB stick/flash drive!
I created an adhoc network to transfer my gigabytes of PC data to my new Macbook.
Mac:
– Click the network icon at the upper right of the Mac screen and select “Create Network…”.
– Leave the first two fields as is and change Security to 40-bit WEP
– Enter exactly 5 ASCII characters, then again to confirm.
– Click Create. You Mac will drop your Internet connection and use the new one you just created. (To rejoin the Internet click the same network icon and select your router. Curiously, I had to reset my router after using an adhoc network, something about DNS spoofing, but no harm.)
– Go to your Finder System Preferences and check “File Sharing”. I also had to click Options to turn on “Share files and folders using SMB (Windows)” to get the Mac to show up on my PC (running Windows I’m-never-looking-back Vista).
PC:
– Select the just-created Mac network like you do your router.
– Open your network folder and double-click your just-created Mac adhoc network.
– Log in using the same login and password you use on the Mac. If it is as the administrator you may select any folder on the Mac.
– Drag your PC files into a Mac folder.
I had some problems getting the Mac to show up on the PC so I Unchecked the Mac’s “File Sharing” then REchecked it a couple of times. Try clicking the PC’s Network window refresh button too.
Just wanted to drop a quick thanks. Your post saved me the trouble of figuring it out myself. Also want to confirm that it’s not necessary to edit the .xml with 8.2.
Thanks for the great article. I haven’t tried it yet but I’m hoping to this weekend. I was wondering does this process also bring over the videos, and movies that you’ve purchased from ITunes also or is this yet another process that has to be done? One other question, is it hard to move your photos from PC to Mac? I just got an IMac that I am really looking forward to setting up but I’m a little nervous about getting my ITunes and photos from my PC to the new IMac. Thanks again !
Steve
Wonderful! (Love the way I didn’t have to do that hard step at the end!)
Thanks heaps 🙂
Hello and congrats for this great tutorial.
I have a question.
I use iTunes as my music repository in an external hard drive at my windows machine,
For that reason i moved the itunes folder at this hard drive so all the corresponding files are already there and of course
already checked the “Keep iTunes music folder Organized” and “Copy to iTunes Music folder when adding to Library”.
Do i have to make any further step or just connect the external hard drive to my mac ( FAT32 formated) and “tell” to itunes where to find the Library?
I Have iTunes 8.2 on both machines ( windows and mac)
Thanks in Advance
hi this last section does not seem to work at all for me any suggestions will be highly appreciated
Hey whoever made this, i have a question about that last decoding step, because it was waaaay over my head.
i tried to do what you said, but it didnt work, i just changed some of the text in textedit, and now i wooried that i did something bad to itunes, did i? i saved it too, so i cant revert back to the way it was
I’ve been looking for a tutorial! I plan to be PC free by the end of the month!
This was very helpful. There is one thing that may make it a bit easier:
The iTunes Library is really the .ITL file. The XML file is merely created from this file by iTunes as necessary. So, rather than edit the file as in step 6, just delete it from the directory before firing up iTunes. There will be a short wait while iTunes recreates the XLM file.
I just followed these directions, skipping step 6, to migrate a 180GB iTunes library from XP to Leopard in iTunes 8.2.1. Worked without a hitch.
Many thanks for the tips!
Thanks! Worked perfectly!
Another happy migration here. Thanks.
Thanks, worked for me (iTunes 9)!
Thanks a whole bunch! My partition that was holding all my music files just filled up and had to migrate it to another partition. Thanks for the explanation that saved me hours, literally. I would’ve manually renamed each location in the Library.xml!
I’m halfway successful transferring my itunes data over from my pc to my mac…I have transferred all the files successfully. In itunes i can see the name of the song, genre, band. However I am still missing play count, date added and last played. I believe my issue to be on step 6. On the XML file I can see the line that requires editing ( around line 10)…Can’t quite figure out this step:
Therefore copy/paste the complete path as you see it on your xml file, and then replace it with your path (set on steps 4-5).
If it’s a network folder then it will look like “file://localhost/Volumes/share-name/music-folder/”.
Else it should be something like “file://localhost/Users/your-username/music-folder/”
copy/paste the complete path as you see it on your xml file?? I dont see a complete path anywhere..Can anyone out there help me out with this???
Thanks so much for this great tutorial. The import worked great!
Thanks very much for a first rate tutorial. Just got my an iMac 21.5″ and this made moving 100GB+ of iTunes library soooooo much easier.
Thanks. Your instructions were SPOT on. Saved me a ton of time.
Mitchell
I just moved y library from PC to Mac and it worked flawlessly, didn’t have to do step 6 either. Thanks for the great instructions.
I’m moving my iTunes 9 library from Windows 7 to a new MacBook Pro. I followed the steps and it did not work for me.
Here’s what I did to get it to work.
I noticed on my Mac there’s a file called “iTunes Library” (no filename extention). In Windows there’s a file called “iTunes Library.itl”. So on the Mac I renamed “iTunes Library” to “iTunes Library.orginal” ( I made up the extention, the point is just to rename it). I then copied over the “iTunes Library.itl” and renamed it to “iTunes Library”.
When I started iTunes on the Mac ALL my playlist, ratings, etc where there.
Fitz – thanks!! I had the same problem with the Mac Itunes recognizing my transferred library until I also renamed the itunes library file to .original (just to save). Then I just opened the copied itunes library.itl file and after the itunes library was updated – all was good and the transfer was completed. There was no need on 9.0.3 version of Itunes to edit the xml file.
Fitz, you are a star – I spent three hours tying to find out how to do this before reading you post. God knows why this sort of information isn’t available on the Apple website – surely it a no-brainer for Apple to consider what converts to OS X are going through in migrating their data from a PC???
Anyway, job done, well done and thank you!
HI! im getting a mac for Christmas and im trying to figure this out ahead of time.. i did everything im suppose to do on my windows pc but when i get my mac how will i excatly get the music onto the other computer? i understand that this is the whole point but i mean how will the mac know where to get the music files from? like do i have to plug in a usb port? or my iPod or something? helpppp! im confused! thanks soooo much
-kelsey
in other words, im stuck on step 3 or 4…. i dont know how to directly copy the files to my mac, or share my files in my network.!!!
Tks for the post!
But I did not find the need of step 6.
I don’t know if it makes difference, but I was running on both computers iTunes 9.0.2 (i mean on my old pc with vista and on my new macbook).
Guys, this is basically a copy and paste operation. Copy your iTunes folder from windows to a external HD or anything that has the capability to store information, then connect it to you mac and paste it over the iTunes folder on mac!
Just don’t forget to check the settings of iTunes like in step 1, this is crucial, cause otherwise you don’t transfer the musics from one computer to another.
I got all my ratings, play counts etc…etc…without any problems!
[…] from Windows to Mac. After searching on the web, and some trial and error, I finally found this 6-step procedure to do this migration. It worked fine, though I would recommend computer novices to get a little […]
Thank you for your help! I followed every step except for step number six, because iTunes did it for me! I have all my music, artwork, playlists, everything. Thanks for your help.
Worked like a charm!
I found a few differences, but maybe because we are on iTunes 9.X now…
What’s going to happen to our iPhones now??? Stay tuned!
I can’t seem to get this to work on itunes 9. I’ve tried it twice, but my music will not show up in itunes. Not sure where I am going wrong. I can play the songs from my music folder with itunes, but it will not recognize that the music is there and import into itunes like everyone is saying. This new imac is driving me crazy. I can’t believe this is working for everyone else but me!
Not working for me either….
CAn see the itunes on my hard-drive but can’t move them over…what am I doing wrong?
Any info is greatly appreciated!
I can get the files onto the correct directory on the hard drive, but when I open iTunes, it does not read the files. What am I missing?
When I was doing this I had a few problems at first. After getting it done, I realized that the problem was that I was “thinking like windows”. I had to let go of setting everything exactly as I thought was “right”. I had to give up a bit of control and let the Mac just do it’s thing.
What I did was:
First, copy all Media files onto network drive (consolidated from PC directly to USB Drive to make sure I got everything).
Second, moved that with finder to the Mac, into the Home-Music-iTunes folder.
Third, Copied over the “iTunes” files (.itdb, .itl and .xml) into the same folder. These did not end up with the consolidated files. They were still on the PC’s C:Drive in the iTunes folder.
Then I launched iTunes on the Mac, set the preferences (Step 4 above). iTunes re-arranged the crap out of my folders. The iTunes folder under Music now has 500+ folders in it.
This is where just letting it do it’s thing is tough. I want to arrange the folders MY way… but I let it go and now “It just works”.
iPhone swapped over like a charm after that, Apple TV is next.
Hope this helps. Good Luck
Woo hoo!
Thank you so much! Apple support walked me through moving my library from my old PC to my new Macbook, and when my song ratings, playlists, etc., didn’t transfer, they said I was out of luck.
Happily, I tried your instructions, and voila!
I got the new itunes 9 and this worked fine. didnt need to do step 6. Thank you!
Most everyone seems to move through this fairly easily, but I’m having problems. From other posts I know calling mac support won’t get me the right answers. I think Brian and I may be having the same problem.
I’ve copied and moved my files following all instructions carefully and redoing it a couple of times thinking I’d done something wrong in that part.
Moved/copies iTunes from My Documents in Windows and made it my iTunes file. The folder contains a range of files. ipod games, automatically add to iTunes, sentinel, previous iTunes libraries, album artwork, iTunes music and the .xml, itdb. and .itl files, but it’s not recognizing my files and I really want this to work. I have simply moved them and copied them, but still no recognition of the library I’ve placed in the iTunes folder.
I have the same versions of iTunes on the PC and Mac (version 9.02)
Does the library name matter? I have looked at the mapping a zillion times and it maps from /users/computer name/music/iTunes.
Appreciate some experts response to this. Going for a wee bit of single malt and calling it a night.
Thanks
Read my reply to Brian above.
Like Howard (above) I am on 9.0.2 and this just doesn’t work. I tried changing the .xml path a million way and music just will NOT show up in iTunes. The files are there but iTunes will not show them.
Anyone?
This should *really* help some of you. I did talk with someone at Apple and the solution to this is really easy.
If you made it through Step 3 you’ll noticed that the “Consolidate Library” does not copy over the “iTunes files” (.itdb, .itl and .xml). This is good. All you want are the folders (/Music, /Ringtones, /Mobile Application, etc).
Then once you copy all of those folders to your iTunes folder on you mac, all you need to is use the “File>Add to Library…” command and choose the root Music folder (/Users/%username%/Music) and let it add the whole thing back.
This will then build your “iTunes files” back automatically and everything will be ready to sync again. I hope this helps!
Did you read my reply to Brian above?
Could have saved you some time perhaps?
Have an old mac with old iTunes. Want to move the old files to my pc if possible. Help have about 20g worth of music that will be gone forever
If you just want to save the music, drag and drop it. I’s only 20GB, it can go on a USB stick or External HD. The formats can be played on either.
and BTW, get a new MAC instead!
In the iTunes’s french version 9, ‘t is not “Consolidate library”
What can I to do ?
Thanks.
“Consolider la bibliothèque”
; – }
Que veut dire “consolider la bibliothèque ?
So I’m trying to merge my PC iTunes with my Mac OSX iTunes. All of this worked for me except when I moved the iTunes Library.itl and replaced it as iTunes Library on my Mac, now my Mac only shows my PC iTunes library. How do I merge the two so I can have both my PC iTunes and my Mac iTunes libraries on my Mac?
i’ve got a problem that i can’t see on her and can’t see anywhere, maybe you can help
my itunes on my PC is located on an extrenal already, i’ve moved it before PC-PC and that was fine
When i try to just see the foler on my Mac it isn’t there, when it is, if that makes sence, no folder what so ever, dosn’t show up in finder,
any reason for this?
Hi, I’m about to move my 140gb library from my external hard drive onto my new macbook pro. However, on my current laptop about 100 songs have missing links. I have checked a few of these songs and all the songs are actually on the hard drive and in the location they should be, it is just a case of having to go through each song and fix the missing link. But since my current laptop is broken, it keeps crashing everytime i try and do this.
So i was wondering, if i followed all the above instructions and moved the music folder on my hard drive onto the new macbook, would the missing links be copied also, so that i could go about fixing the broken links on the macbook that wouldn’t keep crashing?
Thanks in advance
Thanks a lot for these clear instructions. I am using itunes 9 and it worked first time. I did not even need to do step 6. Great stuff!!!!!!
Nice tutorial! One thing no one mentions in all the the posts… Does it put back all your playlists and song ratings? If some one can verify this for me, it would help me on a computer I have to migrate for someone in the near future. Thanks
RE: Sterling
yes it does, one thing to note though is if you are going from a Mac to a PC you will need to remove all the URL encoding from the xml file: %20 for a space etc..
and also remember to use an absolute location to the new library and to reference: file://localhost/C:/ etc..
I have just migrated 50Gb to my PC from my work Mac!!
thanks
Bingo
Great tutorial – no. 6 not needed for PC -> Mac anymore – worked perfectly for me too, although I’d say that the first step should be to check that your iTunes version is the same/up to date on both machines. One other thing worth remembering is to Deauthorise your old machine and then Authorise the new one in order to play purchased music.
Thanks 🙂
does this method let u keep your customized song titles and albums too?
Yeap, it does.
i just did it. omfg i love u
Matt Harrell’s post on Feb 2 worked for me. I did steps 1 to 5 and then deleted the .itl, .xml etc files, went into iTunes and added the library.
Thanks Matt!!!!
Hi Guys,
Just moved 90GB from Windows 7 to my new Macbook Pro! Everything went well with the exception of my TV shows and movies!?
I can see the paths in the XML file and have amended them accordingly, but still no cigar with regards to iTunes locating them.
Is this true for everyone else?
I’ve also noticed that none of the music in the ‘purchased’ section works either 😦
….I’m almost there…
Can someone explain step 6 where it asks for you to replace the path set on the PC with the path set in steps 4 & 5. How do you find the path set in 4 & 5. That is not explained. Much thanks!
Hello All – I am wondering the same thing as Carly in a previous post – Can anyone help with how to move from an old pc to a Mac … when the mac already has a significant iTunes library? Meaning – need to ‘merge’ the music libraries..
Thanks,
Doug
I need the same info as Carly and Doug! I want to merge the libraries…or set up a secondary library while maintaining the current one on the Mac. Ideas? Suggestions?
I made it through the first few steps in no problem, but when I connected my USB to the Mac, the file says Library.xml is this different from a .itl? Also when I opened up the file in a text editor nothing came up. Then I attempted to just import it into my iTunes on the Mac before editing the file, but ONLY the names of my playlists came up. No music, no album artwork, no songs, no nothing. I’m not sure what happened, but any suggestions would be very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks! Worked perfect, I was not having luck figuring this out on my own.
Does this also move any apps and photos that are also managed in iTunes for an iPod Touch?
Hey Man! Thanks for documenting this on your site. It was very helpful on my switch to Macbook Pro. 🙂 I’m happy.
Hey this is really helpful – I’ve transferred my iTunes from PC to PC before and it worked great, but now I’m trying it again from PC to Mac and I have run into a glitch. I think it might be because iTunes 10, but I’ve done all the above – copied all my iTunes folder files from my PC to a external to my Mac iTunes folder, edited the xml file (but maybe incorrectly?? or the wrong file??) and then tried opening iTunes. I thought this should essentially work, but my iTunes obstinately remains EMPTY with no files whatsoever. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! 😦
After not having success with the full set of instructions I had a successful migration after reading Jason’s 1/3/10 post that remarked “let the Mac do its thing”.
I followed the instructions to consolidate library on the PC before transferring to an external drive. From the external drive I copied the contents of the PC My Music folder (not the actual folder) and pasted into Mac’s Finder Music folder (users/my name or home/Music). Opened iTunes and saw all my playlists and ratings transferred but when I played a song it couldn’t find it.
THEN in ITunes go to Preferences, Advanced, Change to the folder location where the music was pasted. Agree to the question iTunes asks for rerranging or something like that.
I closed iTunes just to be safe. And restarted to find the library just as I remembered it on my PC.
Hey,
I followed your instructions and all my music did show up in the itunes libtary. The only problem is that every single file has an exclamation mark next to it, and tells me that these files cant be found, even though theyre in the folder!
Please help 🙂
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Thanks for this! Not a glitch in the process!
It worked perfectly for me! I didn’t need to do step 6. I migrated Windows Vista running iTunes 10 to the Mac running iTunes 10. I moved 84 gig of music. Thanks for the help.
Thanks…worked perfectly!
Hi. This is a EXACTLY what I have long since been looking for. I hate to bother you given the amount of fine work you have already shared with the community, however, I have to know if all that you write of is relevant in iTunes 10.22 on a Windows 7 Pro 64X laptop & an iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.7 running?
Also I am confused as to how I transfer said iTunes from PC to MAc? Cat5? Wifif through monitor? I’d rather avoid the entire dynamic or static D.N.S
I am working without a net. My external died on me (out of warranted & it will be a bit before I can grab a new one) but I must have my Music, pod casts & Apps on my Mac!
Any clarification from you or your fine poster’s is greatly appreciated. I am a newb @Mac but I know Windows VERY well. If that helps @ all. Also I am using the iPod Touch 4.
Regards,
Jason
Hello Jason,
If there is no network available and no external storage, either use a cross-over network cable to directly connect PC – Mac and share files, or burn your collection on dvd(s), and copy them over to the Mac.
The process should work, and as other readers have posted, step 6 is probably no longer required for latest iTunes versions.
I never had to repeat this process after the migration to Mac.
Thanks for such a fast reply. I did not expect that ,hence , the lateness of mine.
I DO have internet & a 2 Wire Router. I got the feeling that you may have taken me literally when I said I mentioned “working without a net” so if that changes my approach I’d really appreciate you letting me know.
I looked around for a Connector cable & there seems to be a lot of confusion regarding this issue so If I can make this work with what Iv’e got or if just buying an External HD is easier I ‘ll go that route happily.
A final ? Do yo have suggestion for a cheap external that will handle the NTFS to FAT 32 with relative ease?
Regardless I thank you for your time & advise . iCloud cannot drop earlier enough for me!
Thanks,
Jason
So I am trying to transfer my itunes from my pc to my new mac, and the steps above are not working for some reason. I consolidated my library, then chose to take the ‘sharing route’ by sharing the itunes folder with the mac. so I accessed my itunes on my mac and selected Share my library on my local network, entered the required password and hit ok, nothing is happening, grrrr, what am I not doing? Thanks
By sharing the iTunes folder, I mean share it as a filesystem folder (file sharing) on your local network, not through iTunes.
From your Finder (Mac) menu, click on Go->Connect to server… and enter something like smb://192.168.0.2/itunes-folder-name – where you need to replace with the Windows machine IP address, and folder. Of course you have to mark your folder as shared in Windows first (right click on the folder – Sharing option).
after transfering, i plugged my iphone in to the mac, and it says ill have to erase phone and resync since its a different itunes..how can i go from using my iphone with my pc to my mac without starting over..i can get music over there and apps but it still thinks its a differ library..thnaks
Hi. I’ve done this entire process dozens of times, and my iTunes library still has absolutely no content. I’ve consolidated my library on my PC to an external hard drive, set the Mac iTunes to pick up “iTunes” in my Music folder, and moved the iTunes folder from my hard drive to the Mac Music folder, after deleting the existing one. Can you help me here? I’ve restarted iTunes several times. All the files are there in the iTunes folder but there’s still nothing in the program. Thanks!
Any luck? I am having the same problem!
Mine worked!! Don’t forget to restart your computer!!
Matt, I am having the same problem. Did you find the answer?
I actually called Apple about it, and they put me on the line to a few “higher ups” and finally got something to work. I ended up copying my whole iTunes library to an external hard drive and going into iTunes on my Mac and selecting “File, Add to Library,” then clicking the the iTunes folder on my hard drive. This added all the files to my library. Not sure why it works some times and some ways and not others! Hope this helps you.
Yea! All is well. Thank you for your reply.
Hi So I don’t really know what is going wrong, because everything copies fine but the playlists that it adds are from years ago…. not my most recent ones, all I really care about is my playlists so if that is easier than the rest than I would love to know.
thanks for the help thus far!
Are you still active on this string?