Exporting a playlist to a USB stick

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Exporting a playlist to a USB stick

Sorry if this is blindingly obvious - maybe I'm missing something but a search of the other threads and a check of the help facilities hasn't helped.

It's what I thought is a ridiculously simple issue. I want to export a playlist to a USB stick so I can plug it into my micro-system and play it. That means I want to export the listing and the MP3s that go with it. How do I do this? The export playlist function only creates a text file.

Maybe I've got this wrong but this facility seems to pre-suppose that the other unit has a duplicate iTunes library.

I'm sure this must be straightforward. I hope I don't have to start rummaging through the multiple folders in the iTunes library to find the tracks I want and then drag'n'drop onto the stick one at a time.

Again, sorry of this is obvious but I have looked in the obvious places and couldn't find an answer.

Compaq SR5601, Windows Vista

Posted on Dec 16, 2010 12:28 PM

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Limnos

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Dec 16, 2010 12:31 PM in response to paKman300

I don't have Windows but on a Mac you can highlight all the tracks in a playlist in an iTunes window and drag them to a flash drive. It will copy the files in that list to the drive which you can then include with your exported playlist file.

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ed2345

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Dec 16, 2010 5:27 PM in response to Limnos

Limnos wrote:
I don't have Windows but on a Mac you can highlight all the tracks in a playlist in an iTunes window and drag them to a flash drive. It will copy the files in that list to the drive which you can then include with your exported playlist file.

It works the same way on Windows. This is by far the easiest way to copy a set of files all at once.

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Limnos

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Dec 16, 2010 5:31 PM in response to ed2345

I thought it might be the same, seeing as it's all iTunes, but... 😉

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paKman300 Author

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Dec 17, 2010 8:43 AM in response to Limnos

Oh dear, I knew it was really obvious.

My only excuse is I usually open iTunes in a full window so this never occurred to me.

Many thanks.

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PT

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Dec 17, 2010 10:54 AM in response to paKman300

As a related aside, you can use this trick to make copies of music that you want to play around with or email or whatever. So say you want to try out a new audio editing app, drag a track from your iTunes window onto your desktop (or wherever you prefer) and iTunes makes a COPY there which you can now ruin to your heart's content without worrying about effecting the original.
Patrick

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