I recently bought a new PC and have transferred my iTunes library from the old to the new one. I made sure to consolidate the library first, and I simply copied the iTunes folder from my old PC's Music folder onto an external hard drive and then into the Music folder of the new one. The new PC's ITunes knows which folder to store and look for music and pulled in several 1000 of the songs, complete with ratings and playlists.
But strangely not all of them. I discovered that those that I saved in the last couple of years were not automatically found by ITunes in its initial set up. I've got iTunes to find them by searching in the folder, so they are now in the new library, but they have lost their ratings, and more importantly the "date added" in the meta-data is this week, meaning that none of my smart playlists (designed to cycle through my more recent songs more often than my older ones) are working.
I figure this is because new ITunes is somehow using an old database of songs, but I'm not sure how to get it to use the correct one that must somehow be stored somewhere on the old PC. I could just delete and try again, but I'm a bit unwilling to do this unless I know it will work, as ITunes messed up the podcast transfer and I had to spend several hours manually sorting all of that out as well. Again, that suggests a problem with database transfer, but I'm not sure how to resolve that.
Grateful for any help, thanks
But strangely not all of them. I discovered that those that I saved in the last couple of years were not automatically found by ITunes in its initial set up. I've got iTunes to find them by searching in the folder, so they are now in the new library, but they have lost their ratings, and more importantly the "date added" in the meta-data is this week, meaning that none of my smart playlists (designed to cycle through my more recent songs more often than my older ones) are working.
I figure this is because new ITunes is somehow using an old database of songs, but I'm not sure how to get it to use the correct one that must somehow be stored somewhere on the old PC. I could just delete and try again, but I'm a bit unwilling to do this unless I know it will work, as ITunes messed up the podcast transfer and I had to spend several hours manually sorting all of that out as well. Again, that suggests a problem with database transfer, but I'm not sure how to resolve that.
Grateful for any help, thanks