Transferring Music from pc to mac

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Well for some reason, santa claus had the genius idea to bring my sister a mac. Now she needs all of her music transferred from the old pc to her mac and I have no idea how to do that and the people at the mac store cant tell me how to do it for some reason. So whats the easiest way to do this? I could kill santa right now :grumpy:
 
Two questions:

• What music player did she use on her PC?
• Is most of her music on CDs? (Don’t tell me if they’re legit or not – just Yes or No.)
 
So, you’ve already tried just moving the iTunes folder from the PC to the Mac? (Make sure it’s the top-level iTunes folder – within it should be another folder labeled iTunes.)
 
You can set up the mac to host a public folder on your local network that windows machines can access (there's a special tab that enables windows access). Once you get that folder viewable from the PC, you can just dump the files on the mac from the PC.

Alternatively, you could use a USB drive, or you could burn them to CD and read them onto the mac, or you could put them on a firewire drive and hook the firewire drive up to the mac, or you could host them on internet storage space (like a personal website) and download them to the mac....

or you could email them to her. That would be fun.

I recommend the local network option. It's the most useful for future needs.
 
I think Danoff's pretty much got it covered. How much data are we talking about here?
 
Theres not even that many songs really, the whole thing is like 300mb. Thanks for the info guys, I'll see which one will work best and which one I can understand easily enough. 👍

Edit: Danoff, could you explain how to do this network folder stuff?
 
Well unfortunately I don't have a mac in front of me, so I can't lead you through it. Also I don't know your network setup. But I know that you can make folders public on macs and that they have a special option for making them viewable from windows machines on the same local network - the screen I'm thinking of even gives you instructions for how to access it using windows.

Are you familiar at all with file sharing on Macs? I'm sure that someone with a mac would be better at helping.
 
I'm not familiar with macs at all. When I called the mac place to get that thing on our wireless network I had no idea what the lady was talking about when she said something about airport, lol. I might have this figured out though I just made a data cd, I'll see if that works. Thanks again for the help.
 
Yeah, transferring it via CD should be fine with a library that small.

Anyway, once you have the entire iTunes folder on the Mac, place it in your sister’s Music folder. Open up iTunes – it should ask you where the library is, and you need to select ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes/iTunes Music. (It’s important that you choose “iTunes Music”, not the parent iTunes folder.)
 
It seemed to have worked, but now I have to figure out how to reformat the stupid iPod for the mac. Anyone have an idea.:dunce:
 
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It seemed to have worked, but now I have to figure out how to reformat the stupid iPod for the mac. Anyone have an idea.:dunce:
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Open iTunes > iPod > Reformat or something like that.

It will erase all your music and stuff on your iPod if you format, so beware.
 
You mean your sister’s computer? (You have to reformat it on her computer if you want it Mac-formated.)
 
Yes, there is no summary tab on her computer (the mac). I'm so pissed, why couldnt santa just bring her a nice windows machine like normal people have :grumpy:
 
Actually, the Mac should be telling you that the iPod needs to be formatted, and then lead you through it. Are you consulting any of the paper/online documentation at all during the course of this endeavour?
 
I gave up on it but apparently my dad (of all people) managed to get it to work with the assistance of one of the guys from the mac store.
 

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