OKay so here is the deal, I have two computers; A Macintosh desktop, and a Windows Toshiba PC.
A few days ago, my Mac desktop broke. It will not turn on, and I have tried countless times in every way I can fix it, and none will work. Im mainly worried about my vast library of iTunes music and TV shows I have on there. I have the same iTunes account on both computers.
I know about the whole computer authorizing thing, but I never went through that process with the Mac.
IM looking on my PC and it says that 3 devices are currently authorized, so I assume that means any device that is logged into the same account. This is perfectly okay. But my question is, how do I get the music and TV episodes from my broken Mac computer into my working PC Laptop? Is it possible even if the Mac is broken? Can I do it all straight through my PC or will I just have to rebuy everything on the PC?
Update:I go onto the iTunes store for my TV shows and it says the seasons I bought on the Mac are downloaded, but then they dont show up in the downloads on my library. The only ones that show up on my library are the last few episodes I downloaded, all my previous seasons I bought like, say a few months ago are not showing up in my library yet when I see them in the store they say "purchased"
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Alex,
We have no idea which "A Macintosh desktop" you have. I will have to give you an answer for an iMac 2009 with iTunes version 11.
The other bit of info missing is what "broken" means. Did the iMac fall off the desk? Was it hit by lightening? What part is broken?
If the iMac hard drive is physically or electrically broken, you are totally out of luck. There is no way short of paying DriveSavers several hundred dollars to take the drive apart in a clean room to try to extract data from the individual platters of the HDD.
If the iMac HDD is not really broken, take it out of the iMac and mount it in a case with USB connection. (PCs typically only have USB for connection to external drives.) Install HSFExplorer (free) to allow Windows to copy files from the drive. The drive will not mount in Windows "My Computer", but the HFSExplorer software will show files just like recovery software.
You find the iMac iTunes media (song and movie files) at...
/Users/youruserfolder /Music/iTunes/iTunes Media
You will find the Windows iTunes media location at...
C:\Documents and Settings \"USERNAME" \My Documents \My Music \iTunes \iTunes Music
Copy all media files to the Windows media location, and then in the Windows iTunes app, use the File menu > Add to Library to add all new songs or movies.
Any purchases that are not in your media folder can be downloaded again. There is no limit on how many times you can download your purchases.
You would have to physically plug the hard of the mac into your pc. You would need a special software that isn't free that would be able to mount the mac drive on Windows. You can avoid this by using ubuntu which has built in support for this.
Make a new folder on your desk top
find the iTunes/music folder
Drag drop everything in to the new folder
Put the new folder on to a USB and transfer it
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