I just bought a 13" Macbook Pro and I was wondering if there's any way to import my iTunes playlists from my current Windows laptop to the Mac. I have a shitload of playlists that I use in Traktor arranged by mood, bpm, genre, etc and I don't want to lose them or having to do them all over again.

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Originally posted by woscar I just bought a 13" Macbook Pro and I was wondering if there's any way to import my iTunes playlists from my current Windows laptop to the Mac. I have a shitload of playlists that I use in Traktor arranged by mood, bpm, genre, etc and I don't want to lose them or having to do them all over again.

Have you setup Itunes to keep your media files in order?
(in the preferences tab under advanced it has two boxes that you can tick.

One of them is "Keep Itunes media folder organised"
And the other is "Copy files to Itunes media folder when adding to library"

If you have both of them selected then all you need to do is copy the Itunes folder over to your mac's Music folder.

I'm not sure if you can just copy the itunes music folder over if you haven't got both of those ticked.
I used to organise my music myself until i found out that all i'd need to do is copy my itunes folder every now and again to back up my entire music college while preserving my playlists as well. Since then I've had both of those boxes ticked and just copied my itunes folder over to which ever computer i was moving to.

Ps. How do you like the MBP?

Thanks Nelly, will try to see if that works.

I don't have the Macbook yet, I purchased it on Amazon and had it delivered to my gf's cousin's house in California. She just flew there a couple of days ago to spend Christmas and New Year's there, and she's going to bring it with her. I saved close to $500 doing it that way instead of buying it here, but the downside is I have to wait 3 weeks.

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i dont know how it looks in windows but in mac u can in the filemeny go library - export playlist, probably under file or some shit in windows.
exports as a txt file which can be put in again in another itunes. dont know what happends if the music isnt orginazed the same way though caus it looks for the file location:

OSX:Users:myusername:Music:Albums:Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden 1980:01 Iron Maiden - Prowler.mp3

whats pretty awesome on mac i think is that i can move the files around and iTunes knows where they are anyway, really helpfull when orginazing shit.

I dont like to use the keep iTunes orginized option caus it messes up stuff, especialy on various artists albums! I rather just keep all my music in the system music folder and make separate subfolders for albums, singles, livesets etc.

Another great thing is the spotlight in mac (zoom-glass in right corner of the OSX menubar), it searches the mac incredible fast and finds everything just by typing some of the name. Like if i wanna listen to a marco v track, i just type marc and all my marco v tracks, and albums shows up there. I also use this to launch apps, like just typing fir, finds firefox emidiatley.

I dont use the dock at all anymore, its just minimized, autohiden, this way i eliminated the one thing that irritated me on OSX (the dock sux imo). Rest is like great experience overall, especialy the spotlight, makes me rarely even use the Finder too. using four fingers down on the plate to switch through the running appz but its also a separate button on MBP for it, the F3 button (called Expose). Also the CMD-Tab works good for app switch for those who are used to XP. I thinks four fingers either down (Expose), or left (same as CMD+Tab) works better.

Last edited by Zak McKracken on Dec-15-2009 at 17:46

Thanks for the tip mate, will try it once I get the Macbook

Out of curiosity...why do you hate the dock?

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its big, takes up lots of pixels. its ugly icons takes focus, and distorts my work flow. I found myself adjust size and what icons i wanted there all the time. I didnt like the minimize option (it can be minimized to its app icon now though, thats a little better, but still i dont know what apps running and whats just a shortcut).

The new 3D look is ugly but that can be changed to 2d (oldschool) with a simple terminal command, looks better but still big and clumsy. And finaly i started messing with the edges and background-color on the dock (hacking the system really, not recomended), it ended up being totaly transparent, only showing the icons. That look pretty cool but then my background image needed to be a simpler one in order to keep focus on what i actually do instead of looking at the background noise on the 80px on the bottom. Some say that autohide is nice, i hate it, always did on XP too.

Conclussion is that i was never happy with it, it took alot of focus and i just wanted it away as i really dont need it for anything when i use spotlight to launch apps and expose to switch. But u cant disable it caus its essential for the operating system to work properly so i just found a terminal command that adjust the size of it to 1px lol (i think the system preferences goes from 20-200px only). now i cant see it (but its still there) and im happy now.

The windows are finally fullscreen (except that 1px) and i have no problem switching and launching (which is what the dock is for) with expose and spotlight. I suggest getting used to spotlight as it might the future, im betting the dock will die in time. Best thing about not using the dock is that theres nothing to like maintain and theres nothing that distorts the view on a pretty small screen. Only one problem is locating the trash folder! Im hoping it will open itself when its full, havent wasted any time on that before the problem will occur. U can empty the trash from the file meny so its not really a problem.

Still, thousands times better than XP (start button-thing, and the trash on the desktop lol).

Let me know if u want some nice terminal commands (like the 2D dock).
Also look in preferences under screen-saver for Hot-Corners. U can make things happen when u point your mousepointer in the corners of the screen, like enabling screensaver, sleep, launch spaces (multiple desktops) or dashboard (widgets like calc etc, this has its own button too, F4), show desktop (same as four fingers up) etc etc. Pretty cool stuff you can setup there, i love it.

BTW to be launching stuff even faster, start Spotlight with CMD+Space (next to each other) and start typing. Dont have to move the mousepointer at all.

Btw the four-finger tips might have to be enabled in system-preferences, not sure, go look there under trackpad, dont know whats default.

Last edited by Zak McKracken on Dec-15-2009 at 18:19

LOL, I've played with my sister's Macbook (the old white one) for a while, and the dock is actually one of the things I'm liking the most about the Mac OSX.

Thanks for the tips!

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n3lly's tip is correct if you're using itunes PRE 9.x. i believe the developers changed something where with version 9.x you cannot just copy/paste the itunes folder over anymore. i could be wrong, but it may be something worth looking in to.

also woscar head over to discussions.apple.com and post the same question there... you should get an answer in under an hour.

congrats on making an excellent purchase.

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Originally posted by woscar LOL, I've played with my sister's Macbook (the old white one) for a while, and the dock is actually one of the things I'm liking the most about the Mac OSX. Thanks for the tips!

u like it because its flashy, not because its practical, ull get tired of it pretty fast and then ull gonna start adjusting shit, remember this thread when it happens, it will save you alot of time and shit by just getting used to use spotlight and expose, whether or not ur hiding the dock, its good practise.

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Originally posted by palm u like it because its flashy, not because its practical, ull get tired of it pretty fast and then ull gonna start adjusting shit, remember this thread when it happens, it will save you alot of time and shit by just getting used to use spotlight and expose, whether or not ur hiding the dock, its good practise.

palm, why do you like expose so much over cmd + tab? just curious?

i use a combination of both.

i like expose (four fingers down) mostly becuase its faster and if one program has more than one window I see them all, even the ones minimized and it opens.

i use command-tab (four fingers left) only when the apps have no window (background apps like finder, closed iTunes and messengers etc) as it doesnt open up minimized windows, it just select the app really allowing to use the menubar (for like opening a window).

thats maybe a better description of things, expose views/controls windows, while command+tab controls the running programs (background-apps) itself but doesnt do anything with windows.
lol, this can be perfected in the future surely.

like alot of apps doesnt really shut down when u press the red close button, u only close the window. i like that iTunes can play without having a window. In general i really like most things on OS X now that ive "disabled" the dock (which i hated from the first day).

I never liked the dock at the bottom but ever since i moved it over to the left (or right, your call) I've loved having it.

Since the laptop has a widescreen. Having the dock on the side seemed to make more sense.

Personally i love the dock. I wouldn't want to type in the name of a program into spotlight every time i want to use it.

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