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Donnadee06

Q: Problem Uploading Music to my iCloud

I am about as far from a techno-geek as you can get. I just got a new (for me) PC from a friend. It has the latest itunes. I also have purchased many albums to my iphone and have a work laptop that are all synched to my icloud.

 

So far, so good. But I have a 30g ipod (not a touch screen ipod) that has approximately 4000 songs on it. I want to upload those to my icloud and so I subscribed to iMatch. However, I can't upload from the ipod! I feel like I must be missing a simple step. Help!

iPod classic, iOS 7.1

Posted on Mar 25, 2014 6:40 AM

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  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Mar 25, 2014 7:03 AM in response to Donnadee06
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    Mar 25, 2014 7:03 AM in response to Donnadee06

    You can't upload the songs from your iPod. If they are iTunes purchases then you should be able to copy them back via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases

     

    If they are not iTunes purchases and you no longer have the songs on your computer, nor on a backup drive that you could copy them into your computer's iTunes library from, then there are some programs listed half-way down this page which should be able to copy them back from your iPod : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

  • by Donnadee06,

    Donnadee06 Donnadee06 Mar 25, 2014 7:36 AM in response to King_Penguin
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    Mar 25, 2014 7:36 AM in response to King_Penguin

    Thanks, King Penguin, and please forgive me if this question is ignorant, but if you can't upload ripped cd's, etc, then why is that the main benefit featured on the page advertising iMatch? I understand that you are a user and not an Apple representative, but the ability to do this was the ONLy reason I agreed to the $24.99 subscription price.

     

    I have the files on my computer, but they are in a desktop library (Music). I try dragging them to my itunes and I get a queue that says "One or more of the songs you are adding to iTunes...are in the WMA format. iTunes will automatically convert them to AAC format so that they can be added to your iTunes Library" Then it won't convert.

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Mar 25, 2014 8:10 AM in response to Donnadee06
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    Mar 25, 2014 8:10 AM in response to Donnadee06

    You can upload your own music to Match, but you can't do it directly from your iPod - my post was based on the assumption that you might only have them on your iPod, in which case you would have had to copy them back from it so that you could then upload them (and as iTunes itself will only copy iTunes purchases back from a device, the DOC-3991 link was so that you could copy CD music back from it). And you could potentially also find that one or more if your iTunes purchases needs uploading to match as well e.g. if the record company has since removed the album from the store.

     

    As you mention WMA I assume that you are using a PC (?) - I'm using a Mac so I'm not sure how iTunes on a PC copes with them, but I was under the impression that they should import into your library (whether they will import if you change your import settings to a different format from AAC I don't know). You may have better replies if you ask about them in the iTunes For Windows forum on here.