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offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2007-02-14 11:21 [#02050068]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



I hate to clog up the MB with annoying requests but...

...I'd recently reached capacity on my laptop hardrive so
bought and external hardrive. I need to move all the music
files off of the laptopdrive and on to my new one but in to
itunes. When i have the computer only offers me the option
of playing the files in Windows Media Player or Realplayer.
I've been trying for hours but can't work it out.

Can anyone help this technological retard?

Thanks


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2007-02-14 11:24 [#02050070]
Points: 4667 Status: Lurker



Right click one of the MP3's and hold down the shift key as
you do so. It will give you the option to "open with..." in
the cascade menu. From there, you can choose itunes and make
it your default player.

There is probably an option to associate mp3's with itunes
in the main program too, but I don't use it.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2007-02-14 11:57 [#02050076]
Points: 8833 Status: Regular



also, youll have to change your itunes default music folder
which you'd find in preferences > advanced.

to make things easier, if you have mp3's laying about,
consolidate your itunes library before copying the whole
folder to the harddrive.

after that, youll either have to delete your itunes library
and reimport all your songs, or tell it where the new file
is each time you play a song for the first time (its a pain
in the ass, i know, but thats the way apple likes to make
things if you do it not their way)


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2007-02-14 12:51 [#02050104]
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Thanks a lot guys.


 


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