Itunes question

[TurboChrisB]

Hoping there's an easy answer to this.....being just shy of 50 I'm not very adept at itunes. I don't find it very "user friendly" at all.

My issue is I have music on multiple computers...but I can't consolidate them or "share" them.

My goal is to be able to drag and drop music in and out of folders so I can import them to my iphone to listen to them. Or more specifically......compile all my digital music into one folder so I can draw from it...

I've heard that maybe I need to use a program other than itunes to accomplish this?



What am I doing wrong?

[Mute]

Nothing is wrong. I hate itunes. It's not user friendly because Apple as a company is a control freak. Everything has to be done their way. What you'll need to do is install itunes on each of the computers and plug your iphone into each unless you like moving files around.

[DaveInOroValley]

I find it funny that blame is always misdirected on this issue. DRM, or "Digital Rights Management" is a copyright federal issue and has nothing to do in anyway with any company other then the company having to meet the law.

[dwh100]

You could always burn the tunes from your other computers and upload them all into itunes on one computer.

[glock_this]

Your iTunes "Library" should hold all of your music all in 1 place if on 1 computer. So, don't have music in 4 places on 1 computer. It all goes into 1 iTunes Library and if you ask iTunes to import it, it will place it into your "Library".

Next, if you want to "share" you can as you can have your computers talk to each other and use the different iTunes libraries. This can be done over a network easy. So if all of your music is imported onto 1 chosen computer, with a network, you could access that iTunes Library from some other computer easy.

Now, and even better, with the current methods and "the cloud" you could upload all of your music into the cloud and then access it via any computer or smartphone. You just have to pick a desired "cloud" platform: Google, Apple, Amazon and now Best Buy this week. And, then any new music on any computer could be added to your cloud and viola. Of course you need an internet connection to listen to cloud based music. If your an Android user.. Google Music is free and da bomb! Can listen on my phone or any computer.

[Aldemar]

I find it funny that blame is always misdirected on this issue. DRM, or "Digital Rights Management" is a copyright federal issue and has nothing to do in anyway with any company other then the company having to meet the law.

I'd like to find out a way to transfer burned CD's from my IPOD to a clean Itunes install on a new computer. I can't see where that's a DRM issue at all but the only ones that transfer are the ones I downloaded from Itunes.

[glock_this]

To get "the cloud" to accept the older DRM music I bought in iTunes, I used iTunes to burn/make a series of "music cd's" (NOT mp3 CD's) of my DRM protected music and then from there you could upload to the cloud from the CD or just reimport the music CD back into iTunes and now have your DRM music DRM free. There will then be duplicates to your DRM versions but you could just delete your irritating DRM versions.