Transferring music from PC to new MBP

Hey all, I finally got my baby, she's beautiful!

Anyways, I am in the process of switching my music.
I have been using the support tutorial on apple.com.
I am at the point where I have dragged my itunes library into the new itunes library folder. When I open up itune, no music!

Can anyone help me trhough this?
It's vital!

 

You have to point iTunes to the new folder (it's under file > "add to library") or something.

 

Yeah, I did that.

Add to library.
Then I click my itunes folder.
and click 'choose'

Then that window closes and nothing happens.

What am I doing wrong?

 

So you're using iTunes on the Windows computer too? I'd just share your Windows drive, and drag and drop the Windows folder directly into iTunes. That'll copy everything over and put it in the right place if you have it set for the default settings.

 

Yes I'd like to keep the same library on both computers.

I have condensed the library and put that file onto my ipod (using it as a harddrive).

Then I plug my ipod into my mac, and i try to put that file into the mac's itunes.

Nothing transfers.

How does everyone else do this? Can anyone walk me through it?

 

The easiest way to do this would just be to over a network. It's just drag and drop.

But if your iPod is large enough to hold your entire library, that would work too. On the first computer you don't use iTunes-are you copying the folder with all your music onto your iPod? Then on the second computer, you should just drag and drop that folder onto iTunes.

 

Yes all my music fits onto my ipod, so I put the folder onto it.
Then I plugged it into the mac, ad dragged and dropped it, and nothing.

I don't know what I did wrong.

Also, how do you tell what rpm your hard drive is? I just want to make sure it's what I ordered.
Oh, and my battery is consistently reading lower.
100 to 99 to 98 and now it sits at 97.....what am I doing wrong?
I calibrated it and now I usually keep it plugged in.

Help?

 

Ok, after I posted that question about the battery I just unplugged it to let it run off of the battery. Just to see what would happen.

Within these 6 minutes, my battery has dropped from 97% to 91%.
Is that normal, or am I freaking out?
A 6% drop in 6 minutes?

 

Is this relevant to your original intention of posting this thread?

Anyways, its too hard to tell if there's something wrong with your battery from what information you've given us. You could have been charging an iPod, transferring a file via Bluetooth, burning a DVD while watching a Quicktime video simultaneously, all while keeping the MBP at full brightness .

If that is the case, you could very likely drop 6% battery charge in a few minutes.

 

Well, I have only been on the internet for 40 minutes, and it has since dropped to 67% since my last post.

I'm just not sure what is normal.
It doesn't seem like that would get me 3 hrs of battery life.

I have maybe 3 websites up, that's all. Nothing plugged in except my ethernet cord.

I wasn't sure this was something to made a new thread about?

 

Well its not really related to transferring music from PC to a new MBP, is it?

Anyways, I don't know then. I agree, it doesn't look like it will even last more than two hours...I'd suggest you calibrate the battery (read the Mac Switcher's Guide, there's links there), and get iStat Pro (a widget) to monitor battery health.

 

Okay, I'll try that.

Where do you get widgets?
I know nothing.

Also, do you know the aswer to my question about checking the hard drive rpm?

 

Okay, on the Menu Bar, click the Apple Icon and select About This Mac, and a window will pop up. Click More Info...and System Profiler will open. In the Hard Drive section there should be information there about your hard drive.

You can get widgets on Apple's website. Just Google "Apple widget", it should be the top hit. Then you can search for "iStat Pro". Download them, and open them. Then Dashboard should show up and ask you if you want to Keep or Delete the new widget. Select Keep.

 

I feel like I'm bothering you, if I am sorry.

I have looked under "about this mac" I don't see and hard drive information.
I would assume it's under hardware, right? I must be missing something.

But I'll deffinitely get that widget shortly. What other widgets do you reccomend?

(My battery is at 53% now)

 

I don't have many other recommendations for widgets . I try to minimize on the number of widgets I use, as it uses up quite a lot of RAM, so yeah.

No problem, Estelio. I enjoy helping others, that's why I'm here.

I believe it may be called "SATA" or "Serial ATA" in the About This Mac section, I don't remember 100% as I'm away from my MacBook right now...

 

Thanks.

There is a section called ATA, but I do not see the rpm.

This is what my computer says under ATA, I have no idea what it means; Do you?

MAT****ADVD-R UJ-857E:

Model: MAT****ADVD-R UJ-857E
Revision: ZA0E
Serial Number:
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: Yes

 

Hmm...I don't have my MacBook right now so I can't give you the step by step information yet...when I get back on my MacBook I'll try to help you out. Wait a few minutes .

 

That's your Optical Drive.

Look under Serial-ATA and check the Model. The Momentus 7200.2 drive will be ST9160823AS.

 

Thank you Taelrak, that helped a lot.

I do have what I ordered.

While I've got you both here, any advice on the original question?

And my battery is at 44% after 80 minutes on the internet only!

 

How bright was the screen? Did you have bluetooth and Wi-fi on? Were you able to install iStat Pro?

 

I don't know if you've managed to sort this problem out or not.. in the options on iTunes have you got the right folder listed as your music library folder?

I'm saying this from memory and I must say I am a very new owner of a macbook so I could be wrong! I think when you open Finder there is a folder called music. You could try dropping your music directly in there, I think that is where iTunes looks for music by default....

Also you mentioned you condensed your music folder, do you mean you reduced the amount of tracks in there so it fit on your ipod for the transfer or did you compress the folder into something like a zip or rar file? If it's the latter you'll have to decompress the folder at the other end once you've copied it to your mac! (I'm sorry if I've got the wrong end of the stick there and I'm stating the obvious!)

 

I have not solved this problem yet!

I compressed my library into a zip file, and then I went into finder>music>itunes, and dropped that file into the mac's itunes(which is empty). The library does not show up in itunes.

You said that I need to decompress the file, but how would you do that on a mac?

 

You need to decompress (unzip) the music folder. iTunes cannot read the contents of a compressed folder.

Use Stuffit Expander.

 

First, what exactly do you mean by your library? Are you talking about that actual directory containing all your audio files? You don't use iTunes for this at all on the first machine.

Then, if you've zipped it, you need to unzip it on the second computer. Just double click it, and drag out the contents to the desktop. Then drag that into iTunes, do NOT try to place it in /music/itunes or whatever, just drag it directly into your library in the running iTunes program, and have iTunes import everything.

Then just delete the files you copied onto your desktop.

Also, you don't need to zip the files, and this procedure is 100% identical whether you were copying files between two Windows machines, two Macs, or one of each.

EDIT: Regarding Stuffit Expander, you shouldn't even need that, as AFAIK OS X has built in support for the Zip format. But there's no reason to zip the files in the first place.