{"id":132,"date":"2004-01-23T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Music\/itunescopy.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"itunescopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2004\/01\/23\/itunescopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wanted to move some MP3s from my work PC to my Powerbook.  My Powerbook was not on the network, and I didn&#8217;t really want to connect it.  I did have a 128M <span class=\"caps\">USB<\/span> thumb drive handy, and decided to move the files in batches.  But how best to collect them?  I use iTunes on both machines, but iTunes organizes the files into per-artist and per-album directories.  Since I was going to making a few trips (multiple batches), I didn&#8217;t want to try and copy the directories; once you run out of space, it&#8217;s a pain figuring out what was copied and what wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Playing a hunch, I fired up iTunes on the Windows <span class=\"caps\">PC,<\/span> and opened the thumb drive in Explorer.  All of the songs I wanted to copy were in one playlist, so finding them was easy.  I then selected a bunch, and dragged them from iTunes and dropped them in Explorer.  iTunes Did The Right Thing and copied files onto the drive.  When the drive was full, I pulled it out and plugged it into the Powerbook.  I opened the mounted drive in Finder, selected all the MP3s, and dragged them onto the Library icon in iTunes.  Again, iTunes copied the files&#8230; this time, into the iTunes directory tree.  <\/p>\n<p>A few more round-trips, and all my music was moved.  With a bigger device, I could have made it in one trip.  And everything Just Worked the way you would expect (and want).    Very Nice.   <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wanted to move some MP3s from my work PC to my Powerbook. My Powerbook was not on the network, and I didn&#8217;t really want to connect it. I did have a 128M USB thumb drive handy, and decided to move the files in batches. But how best to collect them? I use iTunes [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}