transferring mp3s from PC to mac

[amanda]

I just got a new iMac. all of my music files are still on my PC. I have an iPod mini and ~40 80min CD-Rs. I'm ready-to-go on transferring everything to the new comp. but, I'm a lil confused as to what is the easiest way to do this. I use itunes to store and organize all my music on the PC. but, I know it's tricky getting it to let you share. I've been messing with it when I have time. but, I haven't had much of that lately and my patience is running on E. can some of the computer wiz-kids help me?!

[Broknwing]

Amanda-
the easiest way that I know of is to get a program called Senuti. This will allow you to put everything that's already on your iPod into your iTunes on your new computer. Jadis installed Senuti for me on my computer, I THINK she downloaded it from www.tucows.com but I'm not sure...When I was out there in April, we traded music from our iPods this way...it was UBER easy to do.

As far as the CD-Rs....those are pretty easy to upload, however the song info won't transfer over the same as if you were uploading a pre-recorded CD....Open iTunes, put the CD in the player, and you'll see a lil button on the top right corner that says "import" or something of that nature....I can't remember for sure....The new iTunes just asked me if I wanted to import the pre-recorded CD that I put in the computer...so it might do the same thing w/your CD-Rs.

I LOVE iTunes b/c of how easy it is to use. :D you're going to LOVE your new iMac too....Congrats on the purchase...you've got my e-mail & IM name, if 'ya have any ?'s setting it up gimme a yell...

[Scott Pruett]

the easiest way, IMO:

if you can network the two computers together, just connect to the PC from the iMac, and copy/paste all the files/folders over. Then, just drag/drop all the files/folders into the iTunes library on the iMac & you're set.

[amanda]

thanks for the info y'all!
I'll check out your suggestions 'chell!

Scott- I'd love to network the two....but I don't have a clue how to do that.

[Jadis]

I agree with Scott, the easiest way is to network the two together and dump your music onto your mac.

Senuti is great for bypassing the inability to drag tunes off the ipod to the other computer. You can try to dnld senuti and check and see if the mac can see the pc music files on the ipod. It may or maynot work. Senuti worked for Chelle and I because we were both mac platforms with mac ipods. BTW, sis, what size is ur pod?

My ipod died a few weeks ago. :(

[Jadis]

thanks for the info y'all!
I'll check out your suggestions 'chell!

Scott- I'd love to network the two....but I don't have a clue how to do that.

http://joelshoemaker.com/computer/mac/pcfilesharing.html

[bob clark]

Hi Amanda,

If you have a CD-R burner on your PC just burn them onto CD-Rs. Then transfer them to your iMac. I assume you at least have a CD drive (Internal Combo Drive) on the iMac? Are they mp3 files you're trying to transfer? I believe mp3s will play on both PCs and Macs although I haven't owned a Mac for over 10 years so I may be way off base here. But I'm pretty sure there's software that will convert your music files from or to any format in any event.

And in this way you'll have them archived on the CD-Rs as backups. You should be able to fit 175 mp3s on a single 700MB CD-R averaging 4MBs a song. I say this after just a few months back accidentally formatting my hard drive that had 8 years worth of mp3s on it. Ouch.

[Scorpion]

Amanda: Once you transfer all your music files to your iMac, export the playlists and library info in iTunes on your PC and copy it to your iMac, then import it in your iTunes on the iMac so you don't have to re-organize your music collection.

You can find info on networking and transferring files from a PC to a Mac on apple.com.

Bob: Yes, you can play MP3 files on Macs. And Macs are much better than when you used to use one. :)

[bob clark]

Amanda: Once you transfer all your music files to your iMac, export the playlists and library info in iTunes on your PC and copy it to your iMac, then import it in your iTunes on the iMac so you don't have to re-organize your music collection.

You can find info on networking and transferring files from a PC to a Mac on apple.com.

Bob: Yes, you can play MP3 files on Macs. And Macs are much better than when you used to use one. :)

The Mac was my first "real" computer. Modem speed was only 14,000kbp/s or whatever and it had a Motorola 25-35Mhz processor in it. The hard drive had 250MBs of space on it. And AOL charged $2.99 an hour for their service. I got bills averaging $250 a month from them. I think that's less than 3 hours a day... and at that speed you didn't get much content!

My first computer was a Texas Instrument TI-44A if I remember correctly. I had a portable tape deck hooked up to it for storage.

I'm sure they're MUCH better now! But I enjoy screwing around with (upgrading etc.) computers and a Mac doesn't really offer many options to do this with.