Basically,

I would like to transfer the entire music library from the ITunes on my roomates computer at home to the Itunes i have on my computer at work.

There seems to be 2 ways of going about this. One is to back-up everything onto CD's and the other is to download everything into your IPOD and basically use that as a "hard drive". Im thinking i should go the IPOD route.

Now my question is.......... Am i going to have any problems with the music that my roomate purchased from the ITunes store? I read something about the files being protected or something but wasnt quite sure how all this works?

Also, he's still running the older version of ITunes. I know i need to update his to the 7.0 version so i can do this transfer. If i just go to apple and download the new version on his computer, its not going to erase his library is it?

Any one familiar with this?

Thanks in Advance

EDIT: Please describe in Lemans Terms

LOL

 

You will need some software to backup the ipod to computer. google ipodrip or something similar.
The music purchased on ITunes will require a username and password. You can get around this. PM for details.
Updating itunes will keep everything in tact.

 

Your going to have problems with the IPOD rout unless the computer you are installing it on is the same acount as that of your friends. Itunes is going to run a purchasing checks on the music you have personally downloaded from itunes. The itunes will not interfere from ripped CD's. so in your library if you got songs from a CD those pass the check.

my opinion would be to buy an external hard drive for 40$ not only it is vary usefull but it will make this step vary easy. just dump all the files in the hard drive aand install the new itunes on the new computer then dump the files in the proper folder in your directory. It will throw a check and see if you have purchased the songs from itunes. it will skip the ones u ripped but if you dont have the same avcount it will not rgister those.

there is a bypass for this all you do is make a cd with the songs u bought (not using itunes) and re-ripp them using itunes. this will add them to your library as not being purchased.

after all that being sayd you can go an easier way by just hacking your IPOD and making it a portable hard drive for any files. This is more complicated and you will need to research this since its illegal.

hopefully i made sence here

 

download a program called podutil and just hook up your ipod to the new computer and it will transfer everything, including videos i believe. I've done it multiple times. Also keep in mind you wil have to authorize the nw computer for any music downloaded from the itunes store. GET A ZUNEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

 

How do you "authorize" the new computer?

Never mind - figured it out.

 

This sounds like maybe the way to go. Can anyone describe in lemans terms how i go about doing this? I guess, this way, i can just take the music i want from his Itunes and download it into my itunes library.......

Thanks again for the reponses!!!! Greatly Appreciated!

 

yea man Ill try to clear this up a little bit. I was a t work so I always have to type fast. I even had to do this recently but I used the same Itunes account so I hade no problems.

well here is the simple way im going to make this guide:

computer A: your friends
computer B: yours/another comp

when you transfer A to B and the Itunes are not registered under the same acount the songs purchased on A cant go to B. only songs that are NOT from the itunes store can be transfered from A to B. So easy way to trick B is to burn a audio CD with all the songs you have purchased on A. perferebly using another none itunes progrem. I say this b/c the itunes data could be incoded to it and not let you transfer them onto another itunes (B). you can try this but im not 100% sure.

you can burn a CD using windows media player or a 3rd party software like roxy creator. perferebly a music CD since a data CD can be encoded with itunes info.

then you place CD in B and use the itunes import function to get songs from that CD. it will think its a new cd and not purchased songs.

I would try burning a CD using itunes on A first then puting it on B and see if it works.

or if this takes to long you can have A email B a song file and see if you can add that to your directory.

the key to this PITA is that it is illegal to share music with others therefore they dont allow this to happen and make $$ of of ppl.

also note you can't transfer data from an ipod > a computer. you can only transfer data from computer > ipod (unless you have a hacked ipod). so if you synchronize your ipod with songs in it on a computer that dosnt have them, the ipod will loos all the songs!

you can also use a 3rd party program like stated above to bypass the wall that blocks the transfer of data from ipod > computer. but that i dont know much about.

 

i think the easiet way is to get an external hard drive and transfer from one computer to another. that was the easiet method for me. the only problem is that you will have to rearrange all your songs in itunes on the new computer.

 

I did suggest that also but I beleive the computers dont have the same itunes account

 

ooh i see, sorry about the repost. would it be possible to set up an identical account on the new computer?

 

I believe you are allowed to authorized 5? computers to an account.

 

so that would work....