I don't use iTunes so have no personal experience. But if you got to their support pages and then click on iTunes Library and Back-up, the last item is called Home Sharing. Click on that and it shows how you can share iTunes between computers on your network. That is of course provided your computers are networked.

iTunes are a serious pain in the bum Issy!

They "protect" stuff you have purchased...   so you can only download your iTune purchases onto one laptop or onto one iPod.    You can play them from iTunes on your new lappy...  by enabling home sharing (which if you can access your purchase history... I assume you have done).

I have a similar problem .... cos I got a new lappy & a new iPod!    So I can't download my old purchases onto my new iPod!

Your best bet is to go into your account at the iTunes store....   and there is a contact facility...  (I think its under the heading "support")

I have had to use this a few times...   the only redeeming feature is that they are quite quick to come back to you.      If you explain its your new lappy & not you trying to share your music (bloody cheek of them!!) then they should sort it for you.

For what its worth.....   if its music you are buying....   Amazon now sell MP3 downloads... and all their stuff is not protected.   You buy it... and you can then transfer it to as many MP3 players and computers as you like and play it.  

The only thing they don't do is audiobooks (which if not covered by the iTunes Nazi's... then the Audible.co.uk Nazi's control)


This really bugs me.... as you can tell!

I am gonna be online for the next hour... 

I'll keep an eye on this thread...    if you are still struggling Issy... come back in here and I will boot up iTunes & go through it with you xx

Issy, I think that you just plug your ipod into the new lappy and it will come up with an option to transfer the itunes from the ipod. However, it will only transfer stuff that you have purchased from itunes, not other stuff that you have uploaded from elsewhere e.g. CDs. If you are not able to do what El Loro suggests, then you would need to save the stuff that you haven't purchased from itunes onto e.g. an external hard-drive and then upload it onto the new lappy. (I think!!!)
This was the problem I had when my lappy crashed recently, and because the lappy was dead I lost everything from my itunes library other than the stuff i'd bought from them

ooooh!  yeah.... if its stuff you've put on there from CD.. then yeah!  What soops said!

I bought this lappy second hand and inherited lots of music... cos that was on the hard drive.   Admittedly I deleted most of it (there is only so much Girls Aloud any person can want on their laptop) ...  but. hey ho!

Just a tad off topic.... but...  

Isssssey...... are you a nurse?

if so....   can I ask you a nursey question?

I have dissolvable stitches in my back.  They said to me on Monday...   change the dressing in 24 hours (we did)...   and the stitches will dissolve in 7 days.  

They gave us one dressing change.    

I have since been to the chemist & bought more dressings & hubby changed it a  couple of times more.   Its all looking good...   healing really really well.   it will be 7 days tomorrow.

Can I just do away with all dressings tomorrow then?

If you're not a nurse... then sorry if that grossed you out... just ignore

Hi everyone. Thanks for your replies. I am not at home atm and am using my daughter's little netbook thingy which is challenging to say the least

However I have not tried homeshare so will look at that first - thanks. Otherwise I will give it to Mr Issy to sort out with a beseeching look.


Ditty - leave the dressings off now -just keep the wound clean and dry and make an appointment to go and see your practice nurse this week to get her to check it and make sure sutures are all dissolved,

Yay!!!  Thank you Issy  (the dressings are so itchy!!!)  

Bah iTunes!  99p for a song!

When I moved PCs I copied all files and sub folders from the file structure on the old PC to the slightly different iTunes file structure on the new PC and then put those files on an external drive which I regularly back up.  It all seems to work ok.  iTunes files don't have DRM on them any more as far as I know, although I've only ever downloaded one song from iTunes a few months ago, so can't say for definate.

The words are all in English and yet I cannot seem to understand what you are talking about.

Stick 'em on a rewritable dick then stick on the new laptop then overwrite the next lot you want to stick on the laptop....or load then whole lot onto a memory stick the reload.

I think that is what I am going to do Croc..

If you use a memeory stick  at least you'll have all the stuff backed up in case something happens in the future so you don't lose it.

It's like a whole new language PC

Issyjinglebells he he, I aim to befuddlize