Copy Your iPod to a New Computer

Apple iPods can maintain 1000's of music, permitting customers to have their music library in their pocket. The gadget is also a higher-capability generate and can be utilized to transfer a music library from one particular computer to yet another. If you acquire a new computer or want to reveal your favored new music with a pal, shifting music with an iPod will take just a handful of minutes.

Hook up your iPod to the outdated computer and open iTunes, if it does not open instantly.

Click on the identify of the iPod in the sidebar and pick the "Summary" tab in the iTunes window.

Verify the box following to "Manually deal with music and video clip." If prompted by a dialogue box to affirm the modify, Click on "OK." Click on "Utilize" in the reduce-proper corner of the display screen.

Click on the "Edit" tab and then Click on "Preferences" from the drop-down menu. Go to the "Sophisticated" tab and publish down the difficult push area in the "iTunes media folder place" subject. Click on "OK."

Exit iTunes. Go to the "My Computer" folder and navigate to the music folder tackle you wrote down in Phase four.

Open a 2nd window and go to "My Computer." Navigate to the "Units" display that lists your iPod. Drag the iTunes folder to the iPod icon. A transfer of files will immediately commence.

Eject your iPod when the file transfer is full.

Open iTunes on the new computer. Go to the "My Music" folder on your computer, situated in "Paperwork and Settings."

Link your iPod to the new computer. Go to "My Computer" and find the iPod in the "Gadgets" area. Double-Click on the iPod icon. Drag the iTunes folder outlined in the iPod folder to "My Music."

Go to iTunes and Click on the "File" tab. Go to "Include Folder to Library" and navigate to the recently additional iTunes folder in "My Music." Click on "OK." The files will be copied into iTunes.