iTunes - Transferring music to another PC?

[dannyboy172]

My PC at home is fooked - its a laptop and anything remotely tasking the thing shuts down, as it over heats!! This happens when i'm transferring music to my ipod, which is so fooking annoying! Anyway, i've nicked the laptop from work and want to transfer my music over, is there any easy way to do this without copying every individual music file to a CD and importing them in again? :S

Cheers,
Dan

 

[chriscl]

If your laptop is stuffed, it might not even run long enough to copy the files over to the new laptop (either via network cable or similar).

If you've more music than will fit on the iPod (and who hasn't!) then one option might be to get an external 2.5" USB hard disk holder (you can get these off eBay for a few quid or from Maplin) and take the hard disk out of the old laptop (usually held in by a couple of screws) fit it into the enclosure and then use the USB connector to plug the enclosure into your new laptop - windows will detect it automatically - then it's just "drag-n-drop" to wherever you want the files on the 'new' laptop?

It might cost you a few quid for the enclosure, but it'll be quicker than backing up to CD, and (unless you're going to have the old laptop repaired) you'll have a handy external "backup" hard disk!

 

[dannyboy172]

Cheers for the reply matey, managed to sort it with multiple CD copies...took fookin ages! Luckly the PC held out.

 

[1.4RT]

there is a way of copieing (sp) music from your ipod to another computer

 

[G_F]

Yes..

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-computer/

 

[MikeDX]

We sell a program called mp3HQ which will let you link an ipod to a pc and copy the music off