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How do I transfer music to my new computer?

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Dr.Dank
Posts: 1642 - Karma: 51
Searchbarred and nothing came up. I got a new laptop and I have about 2500 songs on my desktop that I want on my laptop. I looked it up through google and it came up through the apple website. The problem is that all the steps do not match up and it doesnt work. Does anyone know how to do it? ++++ Karma because it sucks not being able to listen to my music at school.
Sep 20 2008 3:17PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
plug in a flash drive
fill with music
put in new laptop
do till ur done
Sep 20 2008 3:18PM
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4frnt_or_die
Posts: 780 - Karma: 3
cable with both ends USB

Sep 20 2008 3:20PM
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08-Line_Rider
Posts: 641 - Karma: 11
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Sep 20 2008 5:55PM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 161
i've never ever seen one of those.

anyway, get an external hard drive, plug it into your comp, drag and drop all your media files into it, unplug, plug into new computer, drag and drop. or set your itunes so it gets music files from the external, then you don't have to put the music onto your computer and clog it up, it just stays on the external. that's what i do.
Sep 20 2008 9:58PM
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Gnarshred
Posts: 5670 - Karma: 18
If you have an IPod, you can put it in disk mode and use it like a flash drive, but basically, yeah, everyone on here is right.
Sep 20 2008 10:21PM
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BEARS.
Posts: 5380 - Karma: 696
firewire
Sep 20 2008 10:23PM
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Commonwealth
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does that work with the iTouch?
Sep 20 2008 10:36PM
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TerminatorX
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not unless you jail break it.

you could compress the music files to a folder, then burn them to a couple cds or dvds.
Sep 20 2008 10:58PM
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cashdebt
Posts: 2383 - Karma: 349
wow this thread really could have helped me. I did it purely burning cds. It took me forever. Seriously, i still have some songs to load
Sep 20 2008 11:03PM
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bigwhite.steeze
Posts: 8227 - Karma: 1,032
you must have gone through a shit ton of cds...
Sep 20 2008 11:34PM
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Bepo
Posts: 8195 - Karma: 17
set up a network share, easiest way
Sep 21 2008 1:31AM
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4frnt_or_die
Posts: 780 - Karma: 3
my printer is plugged to my computer with a usb cable...  and they're not THAT MUCH expensive

anyway heres one: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10052009&catid=25606
Sep 21 2008 10:45AM
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skibum2292
Posts: 398 - Karma: 9
external  hard drive
Sep 21 2008 10:50AM
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Rez4frederick
Posts: 4740 - Karma: 40
Start burning cds
Sep 21 2008 10:57AM
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4frntfisherman
Posts: 122 - Karma: 20
you're a bad person...
Sep 21 2008 11:21AM
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T.L.
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 3,008
compress files to a DVD data disc.  put it in the new computer and drag and drop.
Sep 21 2008 11:36AM
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uosdwiSrjewoH
Posts: 4220 - Karma: 122
if you have an ipod or the like, it's no question, since it's all already there. just take it off the ipod.
Sep 21 2008 11:55AM
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Perma
Posts: 513 - Karma: 20
do not burn cds that is a horrible waste of time.  external hard drive or double ended usb like the person above said
Sep 21 2008 12:05PM
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Bab.
Posts: 766 - Karma: 22
dont know if it works cause it just came to my mind but if you put all your music on limewire, i think you can shhare it by using your ip adress and accessing to the library from your laptop.
Sep 21 2008 12:11PM
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Rez4frederick
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dude, it takes like  a few minutes to burn a cd with alot of songs unless you have a POS computer.  Depending on th file type you use and the size of the cd, you could put all of your songs on one disc

External Hard drives cost at least 75$ and a double ended usb also costs money, I would think CD's are the cheapest route, PLUS its always good to have backups of your music because computers and external drives can and will FAIL.
Sep 21 2008 1:15PM
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4frntfisherman
Posts: 122 - Karma: 20
you have a point.
I still say you're a bad person :D
Sep 21 2008 2:57PM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 161
yeah one like this. most printers use those now. but you can't use one of them to plug two computers to each other
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Sep 21 2008 4:02PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
that's because only one end is USB. you can buy cables with two USB connectors, all you have to do is look.
Sep 21 2008 4:51PM
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4frnt_or_die
Posts: 780 - Karma: 3
yeah lol like in the link i provided above... its 25$
Sep 21 2008 6:28PM
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corona
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fastest way by far=network cable
Sep 21 2008 6:58PM
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A.P.
Posts: 667 - Karma: 136
if u have a ipod put all songs on your ipod and download irescue or senuti(itunes spelled backwards)
Sep 21 2008 9:00PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Remove both the harddrives and smack them together real hard.
Sep 21 2008 9:01PM
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shaundaslider
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through a network, fastest and cheapest way.

Sep 22 2008 10:58AM
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[BRI]noceros
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spot on
Sep 22 2008 11:01AM
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rustyspurz
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is there a way to transfer my playlists/smart playlists to a new itunes library? i got my songs in there, but it will take me months to get all 5000 songs into playlists.....
Sep 22 2008 11:34AM
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Dirty-Jersey
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best post you have ever made.
Sep 22 2008 4:52PM
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eastside
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best post you have ever made.
Sep 22 2008 4:55PM
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Sky.
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best post you have ever made.
Sep 22 2008 5:01PM
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Steeze420
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best post you have ever made.
Sep 22 2008 5:02PM
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k-rob
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worst post i have ever made.
Sep 22 2008 5:03PM
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lepriconfromhell
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best post you have ever made.
Sep 22 2008 5:06PM
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JonathonChandler
Posts: 905 - Karma: 423
usb to usb cable. it will take forever but just find the folder where all your music is and drag it to your laptop.
Sep 22 2008 5:10PM
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Cool4aCanadian
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best post you have ever made.
Sep 22 2008 5:13PM
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skeet_skeet
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best post you have ever made.
Sep 23 2008 6:38PM
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4frnt_or_die
Posts: 780 - Karma: 3
8th post you have ever made



lollllzzz noob
Sep 23 2008 7:02PM
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TerminatorX
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57.625th 8th post you have ever made.
Sep 23 2008 10:32PM
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Pwn.Mode
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best way cuz then it's backed up incase your other shit crashes.
Sep 24 2008 2:51AM
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rustyspurz
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anyone? buehller?
Sep 24 2008 10:40PM
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