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In my new car, there is a place to put a thumb drive. I want to be able to transfer the itunes music I have on my pc to an external thumb drive so I can play music in my car. How do I do this? Thanks so much.
Laptop-OTHER, Windows 10, iTunes version 12.7.3.46
thank you, thank you, thank you, I finally got it because of your last instructions. I can't say how happy I feel right now. You are special, thanks a lot. Now I can play music in my car with the USB drive.
thank you, thank you, thank you, I finally got it because of your last instructions. I can't say how happy I feel right now. You are special, thanks a lot. Now I can play music in my car with the USB drive.
ckuan,
I want to tell you something. A friend of mine was having the same problem and she got in touch with Apple Itunes support. She was told by an Apple technician that she could not copy or move songs in Itunes that were paid for and downloaded to a PC to a thumb drive or USB. Can you believe this? Is there something now in the latest Itunes download that will not let her copy songs? I told her that I have done this a few times now with your help. I play the USB songs in my car every single day. I would love to hear what you have to say about this. Will you kindly answer back? Thanks so much.
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Hi there, thank you so much for answering so quickly. I don't have Apple Music. I buy songs from the Apple store and download them to a playlist in iTunes. I play the songs on my pc laptop, but I want to be able to play them in my car. Please give me explicit instructions as to how to do this as I do not see EXPORT anywhere on iTunes. How do I export the songs? Do I have to highlight them first and then what? Thanks so much.
I apologize for being so stupid. I hit ctrl and clicked on each song I want to transfer. When I right click, I hit copy and then right click again and paste and nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Please help me. Thanks so much.
Do it slowly to get the feel. Follow the steps below.
In iTunes, select Music in the top left drop down, in the left sidebar select Songs.
Now select a song in iTunes (make sure it's marked), right click the marked song and choose Copy.
To make it simple, select your desktop then right click and choose Paste.
You should see a file (the selected song) on your desktop, you can copy/move the file wherever you want.
We have gone through this before. You have shown me how to transfer iTunes music to a thumb drive and I have done it a few times now. This is not a subscription to Apple Music, it is music paid for and downloaded from the iTunes store. Does this make a difference or not? I have music from iTunes on my PC that I paid for and downloaded and transferred to a USB thumb drive. Please explain to me what you mean exactly. Thanks a lot
As noted you can use copy & paste or drag & drop to copy music from the iTunes library to a folder elsewhere on your computer such as a thumb drive. It won't work with protected media, or if it does that media won't play outside of the Apple ecosystem, and it won't work if the tracks are in the cloud. It is quite possible that the Apple support person your friend spoke to was unfamiliar with this relatively obscure feature of iTunes, they cannot know everything. You know how it works now and can explain it to your friend. 🙂
tt2
Thanks so much for your explanation. I now understand that if it was Apple music, or in the cloud, I would not be able to copy, paste etc. I will pass the info onto my friend. I also understand that the support person perhaps didn’t know the correct answer. Why don’t they though? Thanks again.
You're welcome, enjoy.
You cannot do that if it's Apple Music subscription.
Otherwise make a playlist of the songs then export out to your hard disk or to your thumb drive.
In iTunes:
Select the songs then right click and choose Copy.
Paste them on your desktop or in your thumb drive.
You cannot do that using Apple Music.
Apple Music is a subscription service and cannot be downloaded to an USB/Thumb drive.
Apple Music has DRM.
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