Best way to get music from old comp. to new?

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

i just got a new laptop and i want to transfer all of my music. it's all in Itunes as well as on my ipod.

is there an easier way to do it without making a billion CD's? (i have about 15gigs worth of music.. that's about 60 MP3 cd's)

any suggestions?

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[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

just copy it from your ipod to your laptop using winamp or mediamonkey and save it to your library

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

why would you want 15gigs of music on your laptop? you cant have that much storage.

 

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

why would you want 15gigs of music on your laptop? you cant have that much storage.

im not sure if i want all of it, just the songs ive downloaded. all the music i've ripped from CD's can just stay on my ipod.

 

[haunther]

usb hdd ftw?

 

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

isn't there a "harddrive mode" that you can put your ipod into for this kind of stuff?

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

get a external usb enclosure for the old drive

or

buy a $30 router and transfer it over the network

or

copy the files to dvd which would only be 3-4 discs

 

[tEh koRnDog 5,000+ posts]

why would you want 15gigs of music on your laptop? you cant have that much storage.

um why cant you?

i have a 80gig hard drive

13gigs are music

14gigs are movies

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

if you know basic things about computers, you should be able take the hd out of your tower and hook it up to the laptop as a slave drive and transfer the files that way.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

if you know basic things about computers, you should be able take the hd out of your tower and hook it up to the laptop as a slave drive and transfer the files that way.

umm please explain how he would slave a desktop drive to a laptop would love to hear this one

 

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

if you know basic things about computers, you should be able take the hd out of your tower and hook it up to the laptop as a slave drive and transfer the files that way.

i don't know alot about computers, but i may give that a shot

how do i transfer Via router? we have a network at my house. that seems like it would be the easiest way

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

umm please explain how he would slave a desktop drive to a laptop would love to hear this one

could do it if it was a SATA drive and u have a PCMCIA SATA card on the laptop, otherwise I'm lost

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

Just share the folder that has all the files u want to transfer, then go on ur laptop and goto ur network, access the computer and just copy everything over.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

share your music folder on your old pc on the network then copy and paste it on the laptop hard drive

 

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

share your music forlder on your old pc on the network then copy and paste it on the laptop hard drive

awesome.. thanks alot, im gonna go give it a try now.