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I am trying to sync the songs in itunes in OSX with the old library in PC. As the path is not the same as Windows operating system, the old library is unable to map the songs in external hard disk. How do I migrate the playlist and library to OSX.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
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 prompt to create or choose a library choose 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 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.)
If you are using an external drive for actually housing the library permanently you may encounter problems. Windows uses NTFS format drives and Macs can only read NTFS, not write. Your library may be detected as being on a "locked" disk. You will have to reformat the drive, requiring backing up the files first.
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 prompt to create or choose a library choose 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 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.)
If you are using an external drive for actually housing the library permanently you may encounter problems. Windows uses NTFS format drives and Macs can only read NTFS, not write. Your library may be detected as being on a "locked" disk. You will have to reformat the drive, requiring backing up the files first.
Unable to sync PCitunes library to OSX
