Posted on 12/26/2014 5:24:52 PM PST by Michael.SF.
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My wife has a mac, I have Windows. We both have ITunes, but we combined them into one account.
Downside: I lost access to all 785 songs I transferred from CD's (they exist only on her Mac).
I want to transfer those to a third party (Senuti?) then load them into my PC so I can have better access.
(Note, I travel extensively and would like to have my I-tunes with me on my computer).
Any friendly advice would be appreciated,
Perhaps Swordmaker and the enthusiasts on his ping list can help you. He’ll probably get to the ping later on tonight.
Try this: on your Mac, in the Music > iTunes > iTunes Music folder, COPY all your ripped CD files into a convenient folder (like a new folder on the Mac’s desktop desktop). Connect to the Mac from your PC over the network (or burn all the files onto a CD or DVD) then open iTunes on your PC and import the files in the Mac’s desktop folder into your iTunes library on the PC.
Thank you for the suggestion.
But,I am not the most comport savvy person. Can you explain how I can accomplish that connection? Could we use an external drive to do the same thing? Mac to external drive, then attaché the ED to my computer?
Thanks, I will look forward to his response.
I’m away from home for weeks at a time around the country... and keep about 18,000 songs on my MacBook. At home, I have a 3TB Western Digital “Cloud” attached to my router. I have those 18,000 plus another 5,000 of oddball genres on the WD unit.
All songs, at all times, can be accessed and played from iTunes through the internet. WD also has a free app that you can install on your phone and/or tablet to access the songs (or pictures, etc.)
You can give access to anyone to listen to and/or download your songs. In my case, I have given access to four other people... and THEY can upload songs to the Cloud in folders accessible to them AND to me as the administrator.
I’ve had it set up for over a year now... and very happy with it.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products2.aspx?id=1140
WD - NAS using mycloud app. All my music gets ripped to the NAS folder location, and I can get access to everything on the NAS from my mobile devices. Music, pictures, etc. I backup the NAS as an ISO once every six months to make sure that everything is recoverable and he formatting is the same as before.
3 TB of storage that I can access from my Windows laptop, iPhone or whatever. either on my home network or away from home either by LTE or WiFi.
best of all....it’s mine.
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that sounds awesome.
Michael - Connecting a portable hard drive to the Mac and copying the files into a folder on the HD then connecting the HD to the PC should work. That would actually probably be better than trying to burn CD or DVD data disks since that many songs could take forever to burn. HOPE THIS HELPS.
Thanks to you all for the help!
Several very good suggestions here! I will start with the external HD option then go from there!
Be cautious. I lost a HD that was formatted for a Mac that we tried to load onto a Win 7 system, and the entire drive was scrambled.
There is no need to format an PC external drive for the Mac it reads and writes to FAT 32 disks just fine.(At least since OS X 10.5)
If you used a Mac disk that was formatted with OS X 10.4 or earlier, that could have been a problem for sure.
If you copy your music to an external HD, be sure and format the drive in a Windows readable format. Don’t format it for a Mac. Format it in the Mac Disk Utility and chose the format that specifies it will be readable by both the Mac and a Windows computer. . . otherwise, your computer will not be able to not read your music on it.
I was just telling StarTraveler about that. . . see the above post on how to take care of that. . . you also partition a sector of a HD for the Windows format.
The WINDOWS computer cannot read the Mac formatted HD. . . so the external drive needs to be either pre-fornated for Windows, which the Mac can read and write fine, or it will need to be reformatted so the Windows machine can see it. The Mac can do that for you.
It’s cheap too. I paid $130 for the NAS device
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/personalcloud/consumer/
It’s a beautiful thing. Easy setup too.
THE WD mycoud is great. Some of the best money I’ve ever spent on computer stuff.
That really helps me, as I tried this previously without success. That may be where I went wrong.
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