Exporting an Itunes library

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• jammers Posts: 4,290

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  21/10/07 - 17:41 #2

  Copy the folder iTunes onto your new hard disk and then tell iTunes where it is in preferences.
  
  Away you go.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,578

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  22/10/07 - 08:58 #3

  apple have excellent documentation for iPod and iTunes.
  
  Here's their article on moving the library:
  
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305451

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,015

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  22/10/07 - 11:25 #4

  I've just done this
  My old iTunes library was located at
  C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music
  
  I went into that folder and selected all files (Edit...Select All)
  then (Edit...Move To Folder)
  
  I then moved all to
  
  H:\iTunes\iTunes Music
  
  I then went my iTunes
  Edit....Preferences...Advanced
  and changed the folder location to
  
  H:\iTunes\iTunes Music
  
  Hope this helps

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• grassmarket Posts: 33,010

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  26/10/07 - 18:56 #5

  To answer my own question, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this the way I wanted. My original folder structure had the music divided up in alphabetical sub-folders like Artist A-F, Artist G-H etc. I copied this across to the new drive, changed the preferences to the new address, and did a search and replace on the Itunes Library.xml file so that it would preserve my file structure. Didn't work.
  
  So I tried the recommended Apple method, which preserved the artist/album folder structure, but destroyed the levels which I'd created to break that up, so that I now have all my files transferred, have preserved my album cover and equaliser information, but now have a folder with 1300 subfolders in a single level. Not very satisfactory at all, but that seems to be all that I can do.

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