White MacBook has dying harddrive. Music library is on external drive. How do I move the playlists to a newer MacBookAir since they do not have any common FW connectors (FW400 vs Thunderbolt)? If I do not have the dongle to connect an FW cable to a Thunderbolt, can I just copy the file(s) using a USB thumb drive?
If so, what file(s) are the playlists? Is it the XML file?
Any help out there?
Thanks
Terry
Howdy papiamento,
It's the iTunes Library.itl file that contains the relevant information (playlists, etc) regarding your iTunes Library. You can, indeed, use an external drive or thumb drive to transfer both the iTunes Library .itl and .xml files to a new computer. The article linked below details the contents of both of these files and their default locations.
About iTunes library files - Apple Support
Cheers
Using iTunes in conjunction with Sonos and Amazon Music Player. Sonos has a hard 65k limit on number of items it can index (and that includes Playlists as items). I use playlists extensively. Problem that necessitated AMP is that my music library has close to 12,500 albums and about 195,000 songs. Getting everybody to play nicely has been a challenge. Your reply is helping me get to parity between my iTunes playlists and playlists on the Sonos and on AMP.
I wish Apple purchase Sonos - and there are a lot of Sonos customers who feel the same way. I'd love to be able to see a decent bluetooth headset that worked with the Sonos. Or at least have a headset jack on their Play:1 Dentists would buy these by the ton!
Thanks for your help.
papiamento,
Glad that I could help!
Cheers
Copying iTunes playlists from white MacBook to MacBookAir
