Backup Your iTunes Playlist! Restore In Just 6 Clicks (PC)

[OneDirtyMXRider]

Horrible quality..

[inventorkid13]

@OneDirtyMXRider Sorry man, One of my first videos. Look at the date.

[OneDirtyMXRider]

@inventorkid13 Its okay, Probably a good video, i just cant read it.

[CutHardstylez]

holy shit this dude totally sounds like the joker...

[inventorkid13]

@CutHardstylez Orly now?

[TheTrailerWorld]

i want to make a copy of a playlist thats on my ipod and not on my computer. how do i do that?

[apinela]

it worked perfect for me everyting got restored it took a while becuase i have like 200 gigs of music

[POMOZKI]

after many hours on this, I've discovered this process will only backup individual playlists, not those organized into folders, so if you have heaps of, say, Beatles with sub-folders for each album, they'll not be copied

[POMOZKI]

this is not as easy as Inventorkid made out - has anyone else tried to copy what he said? save here, replace this text with that text, it's hard to follow

[POMOZKI]

you're a real champ but I'm still a bit confused. I don't wanna take up space here, gonna contact you via your website! thanks

[POMOZKI]

whoa, hang on a sec! let me get this clear - because no-one else has ever given me a clear answer on this:

1) I have my iTunes library in one folder - and backed up.

2) I've done what you said and done an "export library" and backed that up.

My laptop gets lost/broken, I buy another one.

Now if I import the 2 above back in, are you saying I'll not only get all my content back - but also my 118 playlists as usual down the left hand side?

[inventorkid13]

@POMOZKI You've got it smack on there buddy :) that's how i transfered my 4334 song iTunes library from my PC to my Mac

[YGOJustGotReal]

@inventorkid13 MAC USERS SUCK

[OneDirtyMXRider]

@YGOJustGotReal Just because you can afford a mac, doesn't mean you have to hate.

[POMOZKI]

great - for doing 1 playlist at a time. I have 118 playlists - how to do them in one go?

[inventorkid13]

@POMOZKI Instead of clicking "Export Playlist" click on "Export Library"

[Fireice47]

@inventorkid13 when you 'export library', not only does it copy or export playlists, but does it export your whole "library" as well?

[HDSean]

Ha you have hardly any music,Now you have like millions of songs

[inventorkid13]

LOLOLOL i was on a computer that i found - then formatted - and i only had like 19 songs on it

[HDSean]

HAHA lol :-)

[jcarellano44]

Dude this is some fuckin kick ass music :P

[ladybug48118]

we moved the entire itunes folder from our internal to an external hard drive ONLY by cutting and pasting....now we can't locate any music

[inventorkid13]

GOOD NEWS!!! you should be fine!!! simple go into itunes preferences...file...prefs...t­hen go to advanced and change the itunes music folder location to your external hdd tell meh if dat works

[wayfairing3]

Pretty cool.

[ladybug48118]

good advice...however, how can I restore my original playlist if I moved it all incorrectly to an external hard drive??

[inventorkid13]

hmmmm. what did u back up?

[kirill747]

what about the play counts? are they still saved when restored?

[inventorkid13]

yes

[djgjani]

Thanks so much!!!

Great assistance!!!!

Thank you!

[inventorkid13]

UR WELCOME!

[xHelljumpersx]

So I open up my iTunes, and it says "Importing iTunes xml" not thinking I click on Cancel... anyways iTunes opens only to find all my Playlists are gone, and most of my music as well. Please help.

[inventorkid13]

sadly for the album art... no

but as for song descriptions

(artist, album, etc) yes

[stephaniedu]

hi :) I was just wondering if once I did this process... Would all my album art as well as the song and its descriptions also be saved onto the harddrive? Thank you!

[inventorkid13]

yes