Sharing music with a Windows laptop
Hi,
I have a 6-month old iMac (Catalina) and it’s the first and only Apple device I own.
I’m trying to make the music on my iMac available to play on a Windows 10 laptop without, at least for the present, using a cloud service.
My plan was to download the music from the iMac to a memory stick and plug the latter into the laptop. I don’t want to copy the music (about 11 Gb) to the laptop hard drive which solid state and limited in capacity.
What I’ve done so far is to copy my ‘Music’ folder to the memory stick - this folder includes ‘iTunes’ and ‘Music Library’ folders and the former contains the iTunes library, artwork, genius and some other related folders. I’m struggling a bit now over the next step. I’ve checked that the memory stick contains all of my music tracks and that they will play (still on the iMac) when I select them to do so.
I don’t know if the copied files include the iTunes Player but I doubt it, and I think the iPlayer for Apple devices is not right for Windows in any case. So I’m seeking info. and advice on my options from this point onwards. Can the Windows Media Player access and play music from the memory stick? If I install the (Windows ver.) iPlayer on the laptop, will it work seamlessly with the memory stick? Would I be better advised to use a cloud service that could serve both the iMac and the Windows laptop?
If someone could answer these questions and give me the benefit of their expert knowledge and advice I’d be very grateful.
enteeen