iTunes Public Service Announcement

Back in April, my laptop seemed to be on its last legs. I made an emergency purchase of a new netbook, 10" laptop for $400 and set about doing what I thought would be simple -- transferring my iTunes collection from my old computer to my new computer. Neither of my iPods were big enough to do the transfer, and I was unable to follow the instructions in the Apple support store or other online help to the point where my old playlists were in my new iTunes.

I could go through everything I tried that did not work, but suffice to say for the past six months I had all the songs in my new computer, and I bought all my music on the new computer, but I charged my iPod on my old computer because I wanted access to my playlists and play counts. I would manually transfer the songs back to my old computer, and I sat on a huge external hard drive that didn't seem to be able to handle this simple transfer of digital songs.

Yesterday I was told I needed to copy the entire "My Music" playlist from my old PC to my new PC. I tried that, but kept ending up adding a new folder to My Music called My Music. Finally I was able to move folder to folder, and the play counts are there. Big props to Rob Peroraro at the Wa Post for making it happen.

Unfortunately, I seem to have deleted all the new music I bought. Stay tuned...