Can I transfer songs from an old MP3 player to an Ipod?
I just a bit ago got an new Ipod nano for my b-day, and it’s my first Ipod, previously I have had two other MP3 players of different brands. I need to know I have a ton of songs I want to keep on my old Sansa Fuze MP3 player. I would really like to transfer these songs to my Ipod rather than re-downloading them all, there are a LOT! But since I am new to Ipods I do not know if this is possible and how to do it. I sure hope it is possible.
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If you have the files saved on your computer and can listen to them through iTunes, then you should have no problem.
Put the mp3s into your itunes music folder. On a PC it’s in C:/Documents and Settings/[username]/itunes/itunes music/
You can leave it where it is, but it makes it a bit harder later if you want to delete the files.
Go to your itunes and click “File” and then “Add file to library” or “Add folder to library”. You can add individual songs by the former, and folders by the latter.
No I do not have them on my computer, they are on my old Sansa Fuze and I do not want to listen to them on itunes I want them on my new Ipod nano for work.
Rarebear, um I don’t seem to have a documents and settings folder nor an ipod music folder in my ipod folder.
I was going to the directory.
Go to My Documents, then My Music. You should see it there.
And if you don’t see a My Documents folder on your desktop, that just means that you didn’t put it there. Go to Start (lower left hand corner) and you’ll see My Documents there. Once you open that, you’ll see the “My Music” folder, and you’ll see the Itunes folder.
If you have a Mac, I can’t help you. I don’t do Mac computers anymore.
OK thank you, yes I found it there just fine.
I assume I add my songs to the ‘automatically add to itunes library’ folder there?
Actually, I’ve never tried that. I usually just add it from itunes directly by clicking on the file/ add folder (or file) to library. I assume that’ll work, though.
Oh, well I am doing now and all I really care about is getting the songs on the ipod not itunes.
It’s not, only 115 out of 122 songs transferred to the folder and only EIGHT ended up on itunes. I am trying the transfer again now to see if it works
Hm. Try this. Instead of moving it to the “automatically add” just move them all to a new folder within the itunes music folder. Then go to the Itunes and click on “Add folder to library”. All the mp3s in that folder should then be recognized. Then sync your ipod.
OK thanks, I got it to work now, still missing some songs but way fewer and I can just get them back another time.
Find the songs with the “add file to library” feature and add them individually. If itunes doesn’t recognize them, then the file is either corrupted somehow, or it’s a format itunes doesn’t recognize.
Ok thanks for that information
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