Backing Up Your iTunes Music Library


Hopefully, you have and use a good backup system to protect all your files, including your iTunes Library. If so, you get extra points from me and can skip the rest of this section.

Note

Unless you have a very limited music selection, backing up your music on CD isn't practical. However, if you only have a CD writer available, you should at least back up any music you purchase from the iTunes Music Store or download from the Internet. That will protect the music you get from those sources. You can always reimport music from the original audio CD sources if you have to.


If you don't use a backup system to protect yourself, shame on you. However, you can earn some points back by at least backing up your music collection to CD or DVD. You can do this by creating a playlist containing the music you want to back up. Then, you burn that playlist to a CD or DVD. That will place a copy of your music on disc so that you can recover it should you ever need to. For detailed steps to burn discs, see Chapter 18, "Burning Your Own CDs or DVDs."

If the playlist you select contains more songs than will fit on a single CD or DVD, you will be prompted to see whether you want iTunes to place the playlist on multiple discs. If you allow this, iTunes will keep burning discs until all the songs in the playlist have been placed on a disc.

Tip

When you back up your music, make sure you use the data format option, not the Audio CD or MP3 formats. This preserves the original format of the songs, such as AAC for those that you purchased from the iTunes Music Store.




iPod + iTunes Starter Kit
iPod and iTunes Starter Kit (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 078973463X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 187

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