itunes from one windows pc to another windows pc

[bigandclever]

Dead easy question ...

A colleague has a windows laptop with his itunes library; he wants to transfer the library to his new windows laptop. It looks like you have to go old laptop > external hard drive then external hard drive to new laptop. Is it possible to connect the laptops together and transfer that way? Believe it's about 60gb of data.

[Whoozit]

If you have a USB stick or external drive that'll be the quickest.

Second quickest is connect to the same wifi network, turn on network discovery for both, set a new folder to shared (NOT the entire C: drive) and transfer over.

Ummmm. Third quickest Dropbox? But relies on having decent internet bandwidth.

[Captain_Morgan]

Whoozit said:

If you have a USB stick or external drive that'll be the quickest.

Second quickest is connect to the same wifi network, turn on network discovery for both, set a new folder to shared (NOT the entire C: drive) and transfer over.

Ummmm. Third quickest Dropbox? But relies on having decent internet bandwidth.

You’ve forgotten about a wired network, this would be quicker than drop box & WiFi, it might also be quicker than copying to an external drive & then to the new device.

[Mr Pointy]

You're assuming he can create a PC to PC network in his version of Windows.

[Whoozit]

Captain_Morgan said:

Whoozit said:

If you have a USB stick or external drive that'll be the quickest.

Second quickest is connect to the same wifi network, turn on network discovery for both, set a new folder to shared (NOT the entire C: drive) and transfer over.

Ummmm. Third quickest Dropbox? But relies on having decent internet bandwidth.

You’ve forgotten about a wired network, this would be quicker than drop box & WiFi, it might also be quicker than copying to an external drive & then to the new device.

Given how the question was posed, I presumed there isn't such a thing in place I also didn't mention a crossover cable.

[eeLee]

iTunes Match is the solution.
Subscribe for a month, turn on, install iTunes on the new device, download high quality, all clean, from Apple.

[littleredrooster]

eeLee said:

iTunes Match is the solution.
Subscribe for a month, turn on, install iTunes on the new device, download high quality, all clean, from Apple.

Interesting. Does this not rely on everything being bought from Apple originally, though? The vast majority of my 85Gb library was ripped from CDs and I've always had to copy to an external drive when updating computers.

[eeLee]

littleredrooster said:

Interesting. Does this not rely on everything being bought from Apple originally, though? The vast majority of my 85Gb library was ripped from CDs and I've always had to copy to an external drive when updating computers.

No. And the files will be 384kbps or better IIRC…

[bigandclever]

FWIW my colleague has decided to just get a cheapy portable disk and do the transfer that way. To be honest I think he'd just assumed he'd be spending a small fortune on another device until I gave him an Amazon link For his purposes a 15quid unit will be fine. Thanks for the input PH!