Mac users can you help me?

If you have an ipod, and your 800 songs are on it, you can download a program called senuti (itunes spelled backwards) to your imac, attach the ipod to the imac, and transfer the songs from your ipod to the imac via senuti. I’ve done this and it worked very well.

prgrant: I have an ipod, but it’s a shuffle and holds only 250 songs on it at a time. Everybody in the family has a different bunch of songs on their shuffles, that’s why we have so many songs. Both download and off personal cd’s. That’s a great idea, well just have to do it one shuffle at a time.

How big is your jumpdrive? You can get a 4GB flashdrive for about $20, which should be enough to move your entire library in two trips if not all at once.

If the eMac has a burner, then just make a backup. go to File > Back up library. Ask it to back up everything and it’ll ask for discs until it’s done. then, just insert disc one of the backup into your new machine with itunes on and it will ask if you want to restore that backup.

can you connect the eMac to the iMac? does the emac have usb ports or firewire? if so, the imac will recognize the emac as another volume, you can then select items from the emac to copy to the imac.

there is a dialogue for this when you first set up a new imac. call apple support to see how you can access it. I recently transferred over 5000 songs and 2000 pictures from an old imac to a new one via firewire; took about two hours total.

What are you using to transfer the information? If you use Migration Assistant then it should transfer all of your information, including the iTunes library.

We used a firewire for most of the information transfer. We also used Migration Assistant. But that’s why I questioned because we’ve done this twice and both times the transfer didn’t pick up the itunes library. You all have given great tips.

I only have a 2GB flashdrive, but I didn’t know that 4GB was that affordable.

Calling apple support is a good idea also.

Last I checked, many places had 4GB drives for only $5–10 more than 2GB models, and some had 8GB models available for about double the price of a 2GB. It seems almost like the case and USB connector cost more than the storage these days, at least until you get to 16GB.