Transfering music to a new pc

[AWC4eva]

Hello!

You know when you have folders on your PC such as:

- My Documents
- My Pictures

etc ... well I have all my music stored in 'My Music'. I then downloaded Itunes and moved all music into that application. I now have a new PC tower and I want to move my music onto it, but when I uploaded it onto the new tower, it wouldn't play ANY song. It just had an exclamation mark next to it? I still have music in 'My Music' too.

Does anyone have a solution to how I can get it to play my music?

Thanks,

AWC

[trish432]

I think you need to move theactual files from my music, as Itunes needs the files to play your music.

[AWC4eva]

What method of transfer would I use for this? I have over 4,000 songs.

[alfgbt]

you can back up your itunes library to cd/dvd, which i would strongly reccomend anyway as you have so many songs. Once you have them on disc just insert it (them) in to your pc & itunes will automatically ask you if you want to import the library. You can copy your my music folder to disc also & just relpace the my music folder on your new pc with it, although personally I would set up the old hard drive as a slave on the new pc & copy files across from that.

[beso]

Putting the drive in the new computer is the fastest and easiest way to transfer files if you aren't afraid to open your computers . You just need to get the configuration jumper setting right if it is a parallel IDE drive. If it is Serial ATA drive it is even easier.

Otherwise connecting the computers together via Ethernet cable and sharing the old drive works well. You need to configure the network hardware but it isn't especially difficult.

This way you can keep your old computer going and back up onto it easily.