How to Move Songs From a PC to a Mac in iTunes
Apple's iTunes program is very convenient for playing digital songs that are stored on the computer's hard drive, and works in a similar fashion on Mac and PCs. Moving a song from iTunes on a PC to iTunes on a Mac involves more than just copying the song from one hard drive to another. A specific procedure must be followed or iTunes will not be able to use the song that came from the PC and that is now on the Mac. The procedure will not damage the song or iTunes in any fashion whatsoever.
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Instructions
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Right-click on the PC's desktop and select "New folder" from the drop-down menu. Name the new folder "iTunes Music."
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Go to "Start," select "Documents & Settings" and enter "xxxx" (your username). Choose "My Documents" and then "My Music." Select "iTunes" and choose "iTunes Music." Double-click on "iTunes Music" to open a window displaying the songs you have on your computer's hard drive.
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Drag the song or songs you want to move from the PC to the Mac into the "iTunes Music" on the desktop. Wait as the song or songs are moved into the "iTunes Music" folder.
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Insert a USB thumb drive into a USB port on the PC. Go to "Start," select "My Computer," choose "Devices" and then click on the icon of the USB thumb drive in the window that appears. Drag the "iTunes Music" folder from the desktop into the USB thumb drive's window. Wait as the "iTunes Music" folder is copied to the USB thumb drive.
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Right-click on the icon of the USB thumb drive and select "Eject" from the pop-up menu that appears. Remove the USB thumb drive from the USB port of the PC.
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Insert the USB thumb drive into a USB port on the Macintosh computer. Double-click on the icon of the USB thumb drive that is on the Mac's desktop. Drag the "iTunes Music" folder that is inside of the window that appears onto the desktop. Wait as the "iTunes Music" folder inside of the USB thumb drive is copied to the Mac's desktop. Drag the icon of the USB thumb drive to the Trash icon when the copying is completed. Remove the USB thumb drive from the USB port on the Mac.
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Run the iTunes program. Go to "File" and select "Add to Library" from the drop-down menu. Navigate to the desktop in the window that appears. Highlight the "iTunes Music" folder. Click on "Choose" at the bottom of the window to close the window.
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The song or songs you have moved from iTunes on the PC are now copied to the iTunes library of music and can be played on iTunes on the Mac.
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Tips & Warnings
Make sure the USB thumb drive has enough storage space on it to hold the songs that are being transferred from the PC to the Mac's iTunes program.
Songs that have been protected by digital rights management cannot be copied off of the iTunes program that they were originally installed on.
