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I should be buying a new laptop tomorrow. If I transfer my files from an external hard drive onto the new laptop will the play counts be carried on in the media library?
 
They should be. I think iTunes has a certain procedure you're supposed to use to switch drives like that. Worth looking up because just moving the files by hand will bork everything if you're also changing drive letter.
 
Night Prowler said:
I put pineapple before, it was OK. I don't like a lot of fruit tbh, and obviously I'd never put chocolate on pizza, that's disgusting. Actually some Pizza restaurant chain here has a "dessert pizza" with bananas and ice cream :puke:

The most extreme I went is pineapple, eggs and raisins soon. Also I bought a meatball pizza once and it was basically pizza dough with meatballs on top, nothing special.
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Ok, I take it back. I do like pineapple on pizza. :facepalm:

Black Wizard said:
I should be buying a new laptop tomorrow. If I transfer my files from an external hard drive onto the new laptop will the play counts be carried on in the media library?
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From my experience, when you change the computer that stores your iTunes, you lose play counts, song ratings, and playlists. I had to use an external program called iExplorer (which basically allows you to view all files on an iPod/iPhone like a hard drive, because Apple are assholes with file visibility) to retroactively import my playlists and song ratings back into iTunes.
 
Black Wizard said:
I should be buying a new laptop tomorrow. If I transfer my files from an external hard drive onto the new laptop will the play counts be carried on in the media library?
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As long as you move the iTunes Library file. The iTunes Library file contains all of your playcount information. This is usually located in C:\Users\Black Wizard\My Music\iTunes. Basically the entire content of that folder should be backed up and moved to the same location on Wiztop 2.0
 
I don't use iTunes but I seem to remember that something similar exists for Windows Media Player. I've been backing up the laptop to the external hard drive occasionally for the last few years and I'll do it one last time tomorrow so I should be able to import the library file straight from the external hard drive onto Wiztop 2.0.
 
WMP is nice little player for files I'm only listening to once, like intermediate tracks in my recordings that I don't want to import into my music library. I've never used it for album listening. Hell, I'd rather go back to Winamp.
 
I read that three men, suspected of being the Paris terrorists, have just been arrested. Good..

Wonder why some people think it is a greater sin to draw cartoons than to kill people ...
 
Turns out I can't go laptop shopping until Friday.

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