How to move iTunes library from one to another on Mac ?
Many users have different iTunes accounts in their families for different iPods and iPhones. Sometimes we might need to share music and videos but iTunes just won't do more than "Home sharing", browsing the iTunes libraries of up to five authorized computers in your house.
Note: If you wanna learn more about the Home sharing and iTunes authorization, you can go to the step by step guides: iTunes Home Sharing, iTunes authorization.
SyncPod for Mac helps you transfer your songs and videos between iTunes libraries with ease. You can easily copy songs and movies to Mac with only a few clicks, saving you the hassle of changing the settings on your Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion etc. To do the iTunes transfer Mac, here shows you the detailed guide using iPods for example:
Launch SyncPod and then Connect iPods to Mac.
After that, the main interface would like the image below, the left part is your iPod contents and the right lays your local iTunes library.
Move iTunes library from one to another on Mac OS X
- Local iTunes library to iPods: drag it to the left region. This smart Mac app also allows you to transfer any song, video even playlist from iPod to Mac freely by dragging. No matter what category you opened on your iPod in the left region, the right part, say, your local iTunes library would be showed automatically and be synced ground.
- iPods to local iTunes library: for this part, you only need backup the iPod library to your local iTunes: head to "File" menu of the SyncPod, then choose "Backup Device" and click the button: "OK", after that, check "Backup to iTunes".
- Other iTunes library on other Macs to your own Mac iTunes: at first you could transfer the other iTunes library to your iPod and then follow the first step in this part to rebuild the former iTunes library. Then all will be finished perfectly.
The SyncPod supports iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod touch (the latest iPod touch version included).

Note: For DRM protected items, you need to authorize the computer first. Then the files will be able to play on Mac or on devices that they synced: launch iTunes > "Store" > "Authorize this Computer..." To learn more about the iTunes library backup and the amazing Mac app, say, SyncPod, you can go to the User Guide of SyncPod for Mac for detailed info.


