Can't get music to Transfer from Limewire to ITunes Library
 

Hi everyone,

I'm new here and I am so ignorant to computors, and to this downloading music stuff, so please someone kindly help me.

My downloaded music had always automatically transferred from Limewire on to my ITunes library, but all of a sudden, it won't transfer. Can anyone tell me what might be the problem?

Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Karen Conerly

If your music automatically transfered to your iTunes then it must have been Mac OSX right!? That's the only operating system this is possible where the music actually gets copied to iTunes own library. Go to LW's Prefs>iTunes>Importing & tick enable to importing to iTunes & press the Apply button. Simple as that. Now you're set! :)

If you're talking about windows then you shouldn't need to do anything. Unless you enable daap. But that's intended for lan. See: How to transfer music to my iPod (& iTunes)

To Lord of The Rings
 

Thank you so much for your quick response. However I cannot click on to the iTunes listed the way you described. It has a grey arrow pointing to iTunes, and it won't allow me to click on it:-( I do believe that I am sunk! Yes, I do have an eMack OSX. However this is my very first computor, and I've only had it for three months. I don't believe that I will be able to learn this stuff.

Anyway, thank you so much for your kind response.

If I want to get back to this board, how do I do this? I received a message that they will not notify me again of any more messages unless I visit the board again, so how do I do this? LOL! I know, I am hopeless..LOL!

Karen Conerly

You have 3 choices: 1. you will receive an email response to all of your responses to your post. 2. Withn LW go to Help in the LW menu bar. Choose the 4th option for Forum. 3. Visit the LW website & go to support & you'll see to link to the Forum.

I'm not sure why your iTunes should have stopped. It might be an idea to reatart the computer if it's not a problem. The issue will probably disappear after that.

Ignore the Grey arrow. All that does is contact the music store. It doesn't mean anything to you!

Within OSX iTunes you can drag songs from one list to another. eg: from the Library to a specific playlist. I think you'll find all your LW downlds are also in your iTunes library! ;)

To: Lord of the Rings
 

Thank you soooo much! It Worked! I restarted my computor, and viola!!! It is responding properly! Thank you Lord of the Rings, you helped me so much, and I truly appreciate this:-) Have a Wonderful Day:-)
Karen

Ms Kitty, you eventually need to experiment with the Main audio functions of your Mac. Insert a CD, and check-out the control panels. The main thing you will notice online is that most people are using 128-bit files, meaning they are doing Medium resolution imports. Some songs sound much better in 160-bit, or High resolution. This is especially important on symphonic and horns and string sounds. Have fun, and welcome to our (ideally quite helpful) internet community!

I have the same problem, preferences are set, restart didn't work, I have Mac OSX 10.3.9 Panther, it worked before.

I have 10.3.9 too. Things went south about 1 month ago, precisely when they were offering the upgrade to iTunes 8.x and I don't know why, but it started when the "do you want to up-grade to 8.?" panel went away.

I am never logged in to Mac except when I am asking for Album Artwork. Plus, I frequnetly use the i-button than says, "Would you like to CONSOLIDATE your files?" (Not sure what it does but re-write the library, like rebuilding a desktop file.)

Now, for the work around. You can evidently still do 8 to 10 songs at a time from one list and drop them onto another. Big bulky sets like 30 or 300 songs won't work.
e'mail me and I'll 'splain more tricks.

Consolidate moves files to the library that were linked in some way as far as I know. I know if you add a directory to iTunes but the files are not actually within the iTunes music folder, then consolidate will move them across. Such as if at some point in time you did not Copy files to Library when adding songs (option to turn this on & off is under Advanced in preferences). Consolidate then moves all files not in the main music library across to it. ;)

I am aware on my old mac running OSX 10.3 & 10.4 I think iTunes was limited as to how many songs you could add at one time. However on my new intel mac under OSX 10.5 I seem to be able to re-add the entire music library back into itself. Not sure if this always applies with adding large numbers of files but did add a large number of files from an external at some point I think.

I'm trying to perform the impossible. Downloading to this old workhorse, and backing-up to a big firewire external drive on my mom's iMac. mainly, the incompatibility between this X10.3, and her 10.5--which can support 3-rd party sync applications, leaves me in a quandry. The bottom-line is that iTunes builds it's propriatary library with structured folders-within- folders. Otherwise, ANY archiving program would make these hard drives match.

It's important to know that the actual file is in the shared folder. I have to re-label nearly all of mine anyway, (more volume than the DOW,) so moving them in 30-song groupings isn't too much hassle.

Grannygear's saying her's used to work, but now doesn't. This event what prompted me to communicate with all of you. BTW: Lord of the Rings you deserve a toast for your performance as a moderator. I couldn't ask for better tech support even if I had paid a bundle for it!