Getting my iTunes songs from my Mac to my PC

[metallicat]

Ok, so I got a new computer and I want to put my music from iTunes on my mac, onto my new PC. I have an iPhone and an iPad that I have synced to my mac and I want to use the PC from now on. I have copied the iTunes music folder containing all of the music onto an external HD. What do I do next? And how do I go about using the new PC for my iPhone and iPad? Can I simply plug them into the new computer and have it all work flawlessly?

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Ok, so I got a new computer and I want to put my music from iTunes on my mac, onto my new PC. I have an iPhone and an iPad that I have synced to my mac and I want to use the PC from now on. I have copied the iTunes music folder containing all of the music onto an external HD. What do I do next? And how do I go about using the new PC for my iPhone and iPad? Can I simply plug them into the new computer and have it all work flawlessly?

The iTunes library is stored in XML format - you can import the library exactly as is to your PC.

There are about a thousand tutorials online on how to do this that will do a much better job of explaining it than I.

[Galakanokis]

Some what related to this.

I recently lost my hard drive and then a week later my ipod classic with upwards of 60 GB of data on it, not back up of course. Now all I have left is an ipod touch running iOS6 with about 8GB of songs on it. Anyone know how to pull the songs off of the ipod and back onto the PC? Easy to do on older versions but I cannot find anything recent to do this.

Anyone know or done this recently?

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Galakanokis

Some what related to this.

I recently lost my hard drive and then a week later my ipod classic with upwards of 60 GB of data on it, not back up of course. Now all I have left is an ipod touch running iOS6 with about 8GB of songs on it. Anyone know how to pull the songs off of the ipod and back onto the PC? Easy to do on older versions but I cannot find anything recent to do this.

Anyone know or done this recently?

The fact that this particular activity is so hard, when it should be so easy was the first nail in the coffin for Apple products in my house.

You have to jail break, and do some magic you can find online. Even then, the files will all have unintelligible file names. You can make them useful though since they still do have the tags. I don't know if someone knows an easier way, but that was my experience.

[Galakanokis]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

The fact that this particular activity is so hard, when it should be so easy was the first nail in the coffin for Apple products in my house.

You have to jail break, and do some magic you can find online. Even then, the files will all have unintelligible file names. You can make them useful though since they still do have the tags. I don't know if someone knows an easier way, but that was my experience.

Yeah, the only method I have found was from a few years back and talked about jailbreaking. I see there is a new jailbreak out for ios6 so I will go down that road.

It's the only apple thing I have and I won it last year from a vendor. Just bad luck timing on a few things. Lots of cloud storage now for teh important stuff.

One quick one. Is there no way to delete songs other than on the actually ipod itself?

[opendoor]

It's been a while since I've done that, but can't you just use a 3rd party utility to transfer the files? That's what I always did and I never had to jailbreak anything. Maybe try this one, it's free and it says it works on iOS6:

http://www.syncios.com/download.html


There are a couple of things Apple does that I can never wrap my head around and the inability to move stuff from a device to a computer is one of them.

[CKPThunder]

This article explains is better than I could. It was written before iOS6 but it should still be relevant.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

[Russic]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

The fact that this particular activity is so hard, when it should be so easy was the first nail in the coffin for Apple products in my house.

You have to jail break, and do some magic you can find online. Even then, the files will all have unintelligible file names. You can make them useful though since they still do have the tags. I don't know if someone knows an easier way, but that was my experience.

It's not actually hard, but it's certainly obnoxious that you need third party help to do it. I've used iRip in the past, but it's $20. http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/

[smoothpops]

no need to jailbreak, use http://www.getsharepod.com/. super easy and free