windows itunes library file to macbook

[deanops]

hi all, recently purchased a macbook, and i have copied all my music over from my windows pc to my mac...

with this however, my metadata (such as playlists, rating... etc..) are gone, and i need my playlists...

my question here is, if i copy my .itl fie from mty pc and paste it over the one on the mac, will it recognise it? and, hence, will i have my metadata back...

Please, i have tried the scripts that make playists out of each album, but it wont work, please help

thanks in advance

 

[janey]

Although this isn't perfect, it's one of the best I've found using a little googling: http://lifehacker.com/software/itun...-library-from-a-pc-to-mac-and-back-242468.php

There were a few other ways to do it, but the lifehacker one seemed simplest and was the newest (that I could see). again, if you want to search for more, just google around there are a LOT of them.

 

[Eraserhead]

There is the Mac Guide.

 

[rockstarjoe]

Try copying the ITL file over to your mac as you suggested in your post. When I bought my macbook that is all I needed to do (although I had to delete the ".itl" extension from the file name). When I opened iTunes my library was all there, including playcounts, playlists, etc.

 

[kingpause]

The MacGuide method did not copy over my last played or play count info, and just trying to open the .itl file in itunes did not do anything. What am I doing wrong?

Sorry, Mac noob here.

 

[kingpause]

I should say that when I import the .xml file I get an "unknown error (-50)". It was able to import about 50 songs, and will play them and everything.

Also noticing that my playlists did not get copied over, either.

 

[kingpause]

Got it (I think). Just copied over the .itl file again - first time didn't "take", apparently. Lost the path to a bunch of songs, which is no big deal because the songs themselves are still there, and all I have to do is point to them. Thanks for the info! Looking forward to learning more.