Q: I need help moving my itunes music from my pc to macbook and to get my music back on my iphone.
Problem #1: I need help moving my itunes off of my pc and onto my macbook.
Problem #2: I need help moving my music onto my iphone. It was there one day and gone the next.
Frustrated in Ocean City. Thank you
iPad Air, iOS 8.1.3
Posted on Sep 12, 2015 11:12 AM
Moving a library: Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its sub-folders and files) intact to the other drive. Hold down the option (alt) key (shift on Windows) and open iTunes. At the select prompt choose the iTunes Library.itl file in the copied iTunes folder.
When this is to a new computer put the copied iTunes folder in the default location of Macintosh HD > Users > *User Name* > Music (or Home > Music) then you don't even need to start with the option key held down, iTunes will automatically look for it there. (Make sure there isn't anything already in the iTunes folder there that you want to keep since you will be replacing it with the one you are moving.) Also remember to authorize the computer in iTunes to your Apple ID if you use this to sync to Apple mobile devices.
Did you sign up for Apple Music? If you did you need to tell us because how you sync changes radically.
Posted on Sep 12, 2015 12:57 PM