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    Transferring all my media to external HDD (Need some suggestions)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by AnimalMother, Nov 24, 2012.

  1. AnimalMother

    AnimalMother Notebook Evangelist

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    I want to transfer my DVDs and CDs to Digital form that can be played on my 2012 Macbook Pro/Asus N56VZ.
    They are all legal DVDs and CDs I just want to know what would be the fastest way to convert the media for my external harddrive that can easily play on iTunes/Windows Media for DVDs whatever is the most universal

    What's the fastest way?
     
    AnimalMother, Nov 24, 2012
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  3. beanwolf

    beanwolf Notebook Consultant

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    Well if you just drag and drop them all from your internal HDD to your extrenal HDD (which by the way is probably too large to effectively use FAT32, so use NTFS) via windos explorer, and then open up iTunes, you'll find that all your music is flagged as "not found". Just "locate" one track from inside a recent copy of iTunes, and it will automatically "find" all the tracks on the HDD and update your library accordingly. I've done this quite a few times and it works like a charm.
     
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