Was this music purchased from iTunes?

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Yes. Most through me old pc, some through my phone.

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On a hunch I searched for a couple of songs I had downloaded and they somehow got added to the library. Not sure when they got there. Maybe thats why the download option disappeared.

So now I just have to get my playlists transfered.

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Not so fast. It seemed to have picked some of up my converted versions of them. Not what I wanted. Still need to figure out how to get my purchased songs.

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Reality is that most of the extra work in the manner in which he did this. He has no backup drive, which is always problematic for switching over to a new computer. I have swapped hard drives when I went to SSD's and even upgraded to a new computer and all this stuff is pretty automatic if it is setup correctly. He doesn't have it setup correctly that is evident.

I am not sure how a backup drive would have helped. I had all the music on a flash drive. The only thing I did not have (because I figured I didn't need -- iTunes was supposed to handle it) was music downloaded from iTunes.

And, my setup for WMP was flawless -- playlists and everything. And I have my music for iTunes (re-imported). The flaws appear to be in the P.O.S program otherwise called iTunes. I am hoping that once my music re-appears I can re-import the playlists and not have any issues.

In reading Apples support (now that it is back up again -- was down Sunday morning) it looks like these purchases will re-appear when I get around to syncing my iPhone to the new computer. Pretty backass way to do it. And I will certainly not fuck up my iPhone until I am damn sure that the setup on my new PC is back up to snuff.

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I've moved iTunes with no problem, but I never buy music from iTunes. All of my music was either ripped from CDs or bought from Amazon.

You can't just copy the music that iTunes downloaded on computer A over to computer B?

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I could. Perhaps that would be the best approach. Problem is it is mixed with copies of my ripped music. Maybe I can just overwite the whole library and let iTunes sort it out.

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I don't understand. Did you copy the ripped music from computer A to computer B? If so, why didn't you copy the iTunes music at the same time?

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On my old computer I had my ripped music under directory A. I had the iTunes copy of the music under directory B. The music downloaded from iTunes wound up also under B (and not A).

When I copied, I copied A to A'. I reimported A' into B' on the new computer. What I think I should have done (and will do) is wipe out B' and copy B into B'. Then restart iTunes and let it sort it out. I may even get my playlists that way.

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