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Move songs between iTunes libraries



I could not find an easy way to move songs from one iTunes library to another. After some searching and trial and error, I settled on the following.

  1. Make sure the trash can is empty.
  2. Select the songs I want to move, select Clear, confirm, and confirm moving to the trash.
  3. Open the trash can and move everything there to a temporary directory on the same drive as the iTunes library.
  4. Switch to another iTunes library.
  5. Copy all files in the temporary directory to iTunes.
  6. Delete the files in the temporary directory.

I tried to skip step 3 and 6, but apparently you cannot copy files directly from the trash can to iTunes….

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2 Responses to “Move songs between iTunes libraries”

  1. john says:
    October 13th, 2007 at 17:10

    I just need to move a song that is saved in one particular genre in my library, to another genre—basically just renaming the name of the genre.

    If you have the answer to that you will also know how to do this with more than one song at a time. I tried drag and drop(can’t be done) and copy (no paste available).

    If you have tha answer you will be forever in my debt. Thank you very much.

    John

  2. Curioso says:
    October 13th, 2007 at 17:10

    John, you can just multiple select a number of songs, then get info, and then you can fill in the new genre, which will be applied to all songs selected.

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