So I’ve got a bunch of music on my home desktop PC…much of which I no longer own in physical form. Is there an easy way to transfer this music to my laptop (a Mac)? By “easy”, I mean other than using iTunes to burn it all to audio CD and then ripping it to my laptop.
erin-go-blog!
Try a portable hard drive, or even a jump drive. Assuming you have USB ports on both machines…
Ditto to what lc scotty said.
If the Mac is running OSX, it’s probably fairly trivial to set up an FTP daemon on it and simply move the files over via TCP/IP. Even if it isn’t, it’d be fairly easy to set up on one side or the other. There’s any number of FTPd software available for Windows, and while I haven’t looked, I’d be astonished if there’s not some for pre-OSX Mac as well. And of course you only need the server software running on one end of the connection.
Ping me if you need help with that. My email address/IM info is in my LJ. 🙂
If the 2 are networked..then it should be relatively easy. You can also burn it as “data” rather than audio and get like 100+ tunez on 1 CD. When you burn them as data…you actually are burning the MP3 straight..then you just copy them on the other computer. No ripping required.
Ok, Rob…I’m going to have to catch you online to discuss this further. 🙂
e-I tried this method, but I think I must have been doing something wrong. Could you email me?
(ditto to LC and Hilary)
I also posted a slightly more detailed description as a reply to the Livejournal feed of this blog post…
-Tony
Erin, I did mine by putting the songs as data as well, so let me know if you still need help with that. (It still took 17 cds! But I have 5000 songs I was transferring.)