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Question

ITunes on new computer and moving music folder

Jan 7, 2015 5:31AM PST

Windows 8, Itunes 12

I have all of my music in a folder called E:/Music, on a desktop. My itunes Library is in the Documents and Settings/Music/itunes foder as it normally is by default.

I just got a new laptop and am trying to find a way to do the following:

1) Copy my music onto my laptop into the main HD folder, so it would be C:\Music

2) preserve my itunes Library on the laptop so it preserves my playlists, play counts, etc.

I have tried several methods I have found on the internet but they either don't recognize the new location or clear out the library entirely.

Does anyone know if there is definitively a way to do this?

Thank you in Advance!

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I don't think that's supported.
Jan 7, 2015 5:40AM PST

The days of popping things into the root folder are gone I fear. While Apple documents how to backup, copy, move iTunes (which I defer to Apple) you wanted to place such in a top level folder on C: Ouch, there are reasons that had to go away. I'm not saying it's impossible but it's outdated.


The Apple articles are pretty clear so not withstanding the folder location problem all the Apple articles seem to be clear about the steps. I'll skip duplicating that here in case Apple updates their articles.
Bob

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Jan 7, 2015 4:04PM PST

I understand. I actually don't care what folder my music ends up in on the new computer, but on my old computer, it is in E:\Music and I have about 300GB.

So basically I want to copy my music to somewhere on my new computer (music folder?) and transfer my itunes library to my new computer, to preserve the play counts.

Is there a way I can move my music on the old computer first, and have my library point to the new locations? and then just duplicate the same location on my new computer?

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Now that's a new question. "play counts."
Jan 7, 2015 4:09PM PST

Reading prior discussions, moving it using Apple's method appears to preserve play counts. However if you are making up your own method, anyone's guess.
Bob

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Apple's Method
Jan 7, 2015 9:10PM PST

I've tried to find more relevant articles on the apple forums, but the methods I found didn't work for me. Do you have a particular forum or discussion thread that you have in mind? Maybe there's more?

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I didn't look on Apple forums.
Jan 8, 2015 1:41AM PST
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Solution?
Nov 25, 2015 8:15AM PST

I'm having this exact same problem! Did you sort it?

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Solution?
Nov 25, 2015 8:13AM PST

I'm having this exact same problem! Did you find a way?