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iPod How to merge 2 iTunes libraries and sync to a new iPod?

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Sttesuhc

macrumors member
Original poster
Jul 17, 2005
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Hi everyone-

I did a couple of searches before posting to try to answer this myself, but no luck.

Here's the deal....

I have an iTunes library on my old G4 desktop. I also have many of the same songs/playlists on my new iBook, but there are also new songs that exist only in the iBook library. I want to consolidate the two libraries by making the iBook the one and only library. It would be nice to preserve all playlists by merging or syncing, but at a bare minimum I'd be happy to simply end up with all of my songs on the iBook without duplicating any songs. To complicate matters, the G4 desktop library contains about 20 songs from iTMS that were not readily transferring to my iBook due to the digital rights.

Is there any obvious or easy solution to this? I'm afraid to try something like copying one iTunes folder to the other computer. Also, when I first got the iBook, I tried to use the Apple "migration" tool program during setup, but the Firewire connection between computers wouldn't work. I just mention it fwiw.

My old 4g iPod died, and I got a new iPod via Applecare that contains nothing right now.
I'd really like to get on with assembling a library from all of my CDs, but I really don't want to re-rip things and start over. That's just not an option. :rolleyes:

Thanks for any help!
 
iMeowbot

iMeowbot

macrumors G3
Aug 30, 2003
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You should be able to drag the older music folder onto the new machine's iTunes main library pane, or you can use the File->Import... from the new iTunes to get your old stuff in.
 
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acertant

macrumors newbie
Jul 22, 2007
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How to merge 2 iTunes libraries and sync to a new iPod?

A new product called TuneRanger has just been released that will synchronize or merge iTunes libraries on separate computers over a network. It will sync music, video and even playlists. It takes care of duplicates and shows results in iTunes right away. It can also sync directly to iPods allowing you to auto sync one ipod on multiple computers and in two directions (iTunes<-->iPod).

Versions of TuneRanger are available for both Mac OS X (universal) and Windows so you can sync or merge iTunes libraries on different platforms together.

Visit http://www.acertant.com or http://www.tuneranger.com for more info or to download a free trial.
 
brossow

brossow

macrumors newbie
Dec 7, 2002
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Using TuneRanger to merge two libraries (with playlists) is all well and good if you're working with two computers on a network, but it's utterly useless if you have two iTunes libraries on different drives (or different locations on the same drive) on a single computer. A real disappointment. :(
 
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