I created a second Apple ID on my Intel iMac. I now have 2 different song libraries on iTunes. How do I move songs from one iTunes library to the other one?
Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Locate the songs in the Finder and then drag them to the open iTunes application window or the other library’s Automatically Add to iTunes folder.
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Do not create a new AppleID. You will forever have to manage two separate accounts. Do as Niel says but after this stick to just one ID (and still have to deal with the other for a limited number of things).
The ship has sailed. There are already 2 separate Apple IDs and a separate iTunes library associated with each ID. If I go to Finder to locate the songs, I can only see the songs associated with that Apple ID. I can't figure out how to move them to the other iTunes library since I can't log into both accounts at the same time.
An Apple ID isn't the same as an user account on the computer.
If you have one Mac OS X user account, open the other library, control-click any song in iTunes, and choose to show it in the Finder.
If you have two Mac OS X user accounts, proceed as above, move the individual song files or the entire iTunes library to /Users/Shared/, and from there into the other user account. If you moved the entire library, you can instead launch iTunes with the Option key held down and choose it.
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Moving songs between iTune libraries
