How to Transfer Video, Music from iTunes to Computer

There are always some questions on how to transfer videos, music from iTunes to computer for sharing iTunes library. Such as:

Question: I've wanted to move my iTunes library from my old notebook to another computer for months. But it is a headache, especially with numerous songs in my library. After searching several times over the past several weeks and I still didn't find a method that didn't involve too many hours of hand editing. What I should do, say, transfer music from iPhone 5 to computer?

Answer: To transfer music, video from iTunes to computer, you actually have 2 ways. Here the detailed steps followed (take transferring music from iTunes to computer for example):

Method 1: Transfer music from iTunes to computer using Disks or External Hard Drive

iTunes offers a built-in back up tool that you can find in the File menu. Just go File - > Library - > Backup to Disc. This method will back up your full iTunes library (with the exception of audio books from Audible.com) to CD or DVD. However, if you’ve got a big library, this will take many, many CDs, DVDs and lots of time. This may not be the most efficient way to back up, if you want to quickly copy iTunes library to another computer, you can turn to Method 2, just copy the music/videos you like.

If you find an external hard drive that you like, you can just connect it to your computer, find your iTunes library (On Windows, it’s the "My Music" folder.), and copy iTunes to the hard drive to make a backup. Depending on the size of your library, this may take some time, if you want to backup iTunes library to another computer fast, you can refer to Method 2.

Once you have this backup, you can just copy iTunes library to your new computer.

Method 2: Transfer music from iTunes to computer using iOS devices

If you don't want to spend more time on burning your disks, just want to you're your favorite music and movie your iPod. One of the easiest ways to copy your iTunes library is by using Wondershare iMate to copy the contents of your iPod to a new computer.With this professional Windows app, you can easily back up iOS device contents to iTunes. Here we go to transfer songs from iTunes to computer:

Download iTunes Transfer here. Then install and run it on your computer. Here take Music & Videos for example.

Step 1. Click "Transfer Music and Videos from Device ".

The blue icon means the file is in iTunes library. You can click "Show files not on iTunes only" to filter files that are not in iTunes. You can also search for any file by typing its name in the Search blank.

Step 2. Select the music/videos you want to backup and click "Start".

Just choose your favorite music and videos to transfer to iTunes and transfer iTunes music and videos to another computer quickly.

After finished, click "OK".

Note: With this iTunes transfer, say, iMate, you can not only transfer iTunes library to another computer, iPod to PC, iPod to iTunes, iPod to iPhone, etc., but also convert audios, videos and DVDs to iPhone/iPod/iPad supported video formats automatically before transferring them to iPhone/iPod/iPad.