Move iTunes

[SOSAGES]

Hi all,

Hope you can help
A friend of mine has iTunes setup with around 30-40 Gigs of ripped and paid for music.

He is running windows Vista and had just purchased windows 7.

He wants me to do a clean install of W7 (format install etc)

I can backup all his personal files to a USB drive but i was unsure of how to move all his iTunes songs as he will murder me if he has to re-rip his CD's.

Any suggestions?

cheers, SOS

[dilli-theclaw]

Have a read through this thread
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/19...nes-query.html

Oh and don't forget to de-authorise his pc in iTunes before you reformat / install win 7

[SOSAGES]

Cheers,

why do you have to de-authorise ?

Having had a read its odd that the best suggestion is to

"go to File > Library > Export Library and save out the file to your desktop. Next, copy your files to the new location. Open the Export file and run a find/replace to point the targets to the new location. remove the existing playlists in your library, then import the edited library file, which will re-add your playlists pointing to the new location."

i see some people back it up to a USB drive but i doubt i could do that and restore it to a new install of windows.
i had a look on google before posting here cant say im happy this will all work

[dilli-theclaw]

You can only have up to five pc's authorised to an iTunes account. If you reformat and don't deauthorise you'll loose one of those activations.

I forgot and as I have had problems this year with my pc I ended up using all mine.

You can sort it but it's a pain.

I followed the instructions so I could have my itunes library on another hd.

[Pog66]

have a look at these

http://ipod.about.com/od/howtos/a/transfer_itunes.htm
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/art...new-hard-drive
http://www.jillesvangurp.com/2006/01...tunes-library/