Comments on: Using iTunes to backup your music

By: Timothy.Jackson

Timothy.Jackson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:49:56 +0000

Nice trick!

If you don’t feel like going through all of this,

I recommend to use CopyTrans.

It enables to backup iPod’s and iPhone’s content directly into iTunes or to a folder.

By: Pryde

Pryde — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:37:20 +0000

The new additions to iTunes have been helpful but I wanted to thank you for these posts as they helped me keep my iTunes and iPod in organized… well, order.

Also… I would like to invite you to explore our production music library for anyone that can use it.

Rich Hughes
Urban Dropz
http://www.productionmusiclibrary.com

By: paul

paul — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:03:04 +0000

Scooter, I'm not exactly sure what's going on with your iPod, but I did find some links in the Apple forums that may help. Check out this post.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:44:34 +0000

Today when I synced my Nano. Now, a large number of songs are missing in the iTunes library. The songs are still on the Nano. When I tried to sync again to put the songs from the Nano into the library it did not work. Any idea what’s going on?

By: allan

allan — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:19:17 +0000

i got a home computer and a laptop i need the songs from my hme computers itunes onto my laptop how do i do this?

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:56:38 +0000

PERFECT!! this is exactly what I was looking for! THANK YOU SO MUCH

By: Marshall

Marshall — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:35:37 +0000

How do i put songs on my ipod using itunes?

By: s

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:13:39 +0000

Maybe because you cannot transfer the music from your iPod back to your computer is a reason an iPod is not a form of backup.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:52:29 +0000

Using iTunes to backup your music library to CD or DVD is great as long as you’re the type who plans in advance- what if you’ve already lost your music? If you have an iPod, you already have a backup of your music – your iPod is your backup.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:36:57 +0000

Hi all,

I have a great concern. ALL of my music is stored in itunes on the hard drive (100s of songs) and a back them up onto multiple data DVDs.

Due to computer problems i have wiped my hard drive a few times. No problem so far, as i just upload my music back onto the hard drive from the DVDs after re-installing windows. But there is a limit on how many times you can do this. What happens when you run out of times??!! Will i lose all my music?

By: mick

mick — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:07:57 +0000

any chance of grabbing copies of your dvd’s….i didnt do a back up…..lost everything when hard drive blew….

any help appreicated

By: stephanie

stephanie — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:11:50 +0000

Question…
can I use this method to simply move my old music files from my PC at home to my college computer without messing up the order or configuration of my new itunes?

By: paul

paul — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:21:37 +0000

Justind, I work on a Mac so I've never used vidora, but you may want to give Handbrake a try. It started as a Mac-only application, but they make a Windows version now too. If Handbrake doesn't work, I'm not sure what to suggest. Some DVDs are hard to rip due to new copy protection.

By: justind

justind — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:09:01 +0000

I just bought an external DVD recorder to play DVDs and burn them on to my iPod (80GB) but everytime i try to use videora on my windows XP only 23 minutes of the video goes into a file. I’m not sure if it is the DVD decrypter or videora or my computer. I can only get to the DVD via my E: drive. So please help me figure out how to download DVDs onto my iPod.

By: rlondon

rlondon — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:09:55 +0000

as for tunecore- I just found out a way to get 5 songs uploaded to itunes for free. Guitar center was doing this promotion for memorial day where you just go to http://www.tunecore.com/account/signup – set up a free account and then enter the code “Guitarcenter” when they ask for you to check out and you get the 5 songs for free. it was supposed to be a memorial day celebration, but the offer doesn’t expire for like 2 years! TuneCore is supposed to be really good for getting your music up in online stores, its worth checking out.

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:07:12 +0000

for all you digital music people, just wanted to let you know bout this crazy new site, http://www.tunecore.com…..
basically, you can get your music on iTunes & all these other digital/online music stores & you get to keep 100% of the profits!! we just used it to put up some songs, and its the greatest, easiest thing ever- and i dont need a record deal!

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:02:11 +0000

Ok I need help. I burned songs from some cds I have into my iTunes libary but how in the world do I get them from my libary to my ipod i dont know how to sync it or whatever please help me

By: minikbarbie

minikbarbie — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:26:46 +0000

This is a pretty clever way to keep tabs on what to backup (as far as your music goes) if you use iTunes. Personally, Iâ€™m going to get this thing setup tonight

By: morganusvitus

morganusvitus — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:12:33 +0000

The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)

By: czurina

czurina — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:03:11 +0000

it worked!

By: czurina

czurina — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:33:48 +0000

Ok, sometimes I need to think outloud and read slooowly. After reading what I pasted in my last comment, I installed my 3rd DVD and noticed the NBI file in reference. Hmmm, I clicked, it started a restore process for me and asked for disc one. So far it is working, to thermoguy, I notice all types of formats, WMA, mp4, mp3 and it seems to be working. I will update you and let you know if this was a charm. Next I would like to try anapod explorer and see how that works.

By: czurina

czurina — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:23:52 +0000

I backed up my music with itunes, cannot remember version but it was in August, 06 through the itunes backup menu. I now am trying to import my music, instructions say, just put in CD to import music. Well, I do that and nothing happens except the folder opening for the directory where the music is stored. To give you an example of the file names, they all look like this, MYMUSI~1… double clicking on each file to import is becoming tedious and we are talking about 3 dvd’s worth of songs. I also see this information on the first backup dvd in a readme: The backup information file (*.nbi) is stored in the root of the last backup disc. This file is needed for restoring or continuing the backup. I have nero and it is not restoring for me. Any hints? Win xp, sp2, itunes 7.1.0.59.

By: thermoguy

thermoguy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:29:19 +0000

I want to backup my iTunes music to DVDs. I currently have iTunes version 4.5.0.31. Last time I tried it would not save my playlists (and each song was often hidden under 3 or more folders). I would like to have all the songs saved under the playlists as the folders, with artist and song name written in each mp3 file, and all in mp3 format. What is the best way to accomplish this. I am hesitant to upgrade to newer iTunes software because none of my music is currently backed up but I will if this is the only means. Thank you in advance.

By: Willliam

Willliam — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:42:15 +0000

Yes and externall hardrive does work.

I started backing up immediately with all of those virus’s out there now.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:48:48 +0000

how about backing up to an external hard drive? thanks

By: tAmBuTT

tAmBuTT — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:14:41 +0000

UMM WELL I HAVE ITUNES.
BUT I DONT KNOW HOW PUT THE SONGS ON MY IPOD.
CAN U HELP ME.
THANK YOU.=]

By: MiSS ANNA.

MiSS ANNA. — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:28:46 +0000

WELL i HAVE MUSIC iN My iTUNES. BUT i DONT KNO HOW TO iMPORT iT.OR PUT THE MUSic iN My IpOD.

PLz i NEED HELP.

HELP!!!!!.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:55:37 +0000

Anthony, can you be more specific?

I’m assuming you burned the CDs as files, as outlined in this tutorial, and not as audio CDs, right?

If that’s the case, you should be able to just drag the files onto iTunes to reimport them. You would not use the standard import feature, as that is for converting your audio CDs to mp3. You files should already be mp3s.

By: anthony

anthony — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:32:02 +0000

i just burned many many cds for every album and now im finding that i cant import them back into itunes? wat the hell is going on ?

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Reality Me » Why should I use your broken music? — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:45:29 +0000

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By: Justin S

Justin S — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:30:45 +0000

I have cmpleted the process (using itunes version 6 by the way) and it worked great. I moved all the music from my PC to the mac. the playcount and ratings were not saved. I don not know whethr those things would be saved by using the new backup feature in itunes ver 7.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:54:33 +0000

Will the backing up of my music files also save my play count? I use playcount in various ways of organizing my music.

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By: Justin S

Justin S — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:55:06 +0000

Will this method of backing up work if I want to transfer my itunes library from my tired old PC to my fast new slick imac? (I do realize I will need to reformat the ipod)

By: Eric Williams

Eric Williams — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:15:20 +0000

Hi,
I was wonder why it is that I can’t burn a blank cd, using itunes, with songs that I downloaded, into the itunes, from winamp. When I press the burn cd button a message pops up saying, ” None of the items in this playlist can be burned to disc. Can you please help me out?!
thanks

By: Desimal

Desimal — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:19:10 +0000

I donâ€™t believe that iTunes could back up to a external HDD unless you could trick Mac OS X in to thinking it was a big blank CD/DVD.