How To Transfer iTunes Library To A New Computer [Tutorial]

Thank you! In the past I've had to add each song to iTunes individually one by one and it took several hours.

It works!! Thank you so much. 🎉

Thanks for the video. It worked great. This is the part I hate to do when switching computers. Made it easy.

Great Video, thank you so much....my itunes are my life...!!!

very straight forward and helpful

I just love that Apple forces users to use convoluted and stupid ways to do the most basic of things.

Super helpful indeed, this totally worked guys!! The last time when I tried to transfer iTunes I had such a tough time but this was easy peasy, thanks so much for this video!

That's a good idea but my library is over 100gb, so copying that one folder is nearly impossible. I prefer physically moving the external drive, with library on it, to the new pc and reset the location that way.

Omg thank you so much you saved many hours of ripping cds!

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Will this also include photos , videos and apps that were backed up on the old Computer or is it strictly JUST music?

Outstanding. This is the most direct and correct way. It worked quickly and correctly. Thank you very much and GOD bless you sir.

You deserve 20 stars. GOD bless you.

So it worked for copying but not the playlists that I had setup, how do I do that?

so my old computer broke, I bought an acer cheap computer. I do not know if the files are backed up from my old broken computer. I bought a bunch of tunes from iTunes and have the iPod still loaded and CDs if I need to reload but I am having a problem even getting iTunes. it does not give me an option to download any help would be great

Can you copy itunes library folder from iphone to i can tranfers it to a new itunes in a new pc? My pc crashed and all my music was gone. Pls help

Unfortunately, our computer died on us, so I couldn't save library to external hard drive. Is there any other way to get my entire library with playlists given this situation?

This was super helpful, thank you! I dreaded updating my laptop because of the hassle of moving Itunes but you made it easy and convenient!

I got as far as installing my iTunes folder from my old computer to my new one. So the folder is on my computer, but how do I transfer the music onto iTunes?

My old computer has Windows Vista. How do I transfer itunes to my new computer please?

Here's what I did , and there was no need to do all of that. 1ST open iTunes on your old computer.......go to "my account", and it shows you how you signed in. Write it down, and hope you remember your password or saved it. 2ND on new computer download iTunes, and just sign in. That's all you have to do. Plain and simple.

Apple has in the itunes guide about consolidating the library is that necessary? This makes it look so easy!! Thanks

Worked for me!!!
Thanks for this information.

So I had to send my laptop in to be fixed (ie my hard drive was wiped), I had no idea that I had to copy my iTunes library (it's the internet!), I had downloaded about 40 CD's to iTunes (so I could get rid of the CD's of course), I just brought up my iTunes account and only have about 100 songs (previously had about 400), is my music just gone? I am about to jump off a building right now

I have iTunes on my flash drive, but when it comes to install it on my brand new windows 10 computer, it doesn't say "copy", it says "copy to path, and that's where I get lost.

Curious...If I am copying the iTunes folder from one PC and placing it in the same exact location, as that of another iTunes folder on a different PC, will the libraries merge/combine? Same iTunes account, just music on two different PC's that I want to combine. No playlists. Thanks!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You saved my life. My boyfriend bought me a new laptop for Christmas and I loved it but was soooo worried about my music from itunes not coming over into my new computer library and hence backing up on my phone so I pushed back on completing the task for months. I've always been worried about getting a new computer because I know Apple used to be really strict about accessing iTunes library on different computers. I bought a $20 system to transfer my music from iTunes over to my first new laptop I bought almost 6 years ago. I was going to use it again but the system wasn't working on my new computer. I'm glad it didn't because I wouldn't have come across this video, which I will be saving into my bookmarks. Thank you again!

Very helpful. Did the job.

Thank you soooo much. Apple's bloody instructions were useless and I was losing my &*^%. You saved the day - ta : )

Thank you!

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