How to Transfer Music from Old iPod to New iPod Conveniently on Mac
Want to transfer your songs from iPod to iPod, say, your new iPod touch 4? As a Mac user, you have hundreds of methods to do so. You can transfer movies, music from iPod to iPod by copying your iPod content to your Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included), and then sync or copy them to new iPod. This article introduces 2 different ways to do this.
Note: If you want to transfer all music or movies including iTunes Store purchases and others from those source, please refer to method 1. Just want to copy some music or videos to iPod without replacing the original content? Go to method 2!
Method 1: Copy iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to iPod
To transfer the iTunes purchases including songs from iPod to iPod touch 4, your new iPod model, you can:
- Open iTunes.
- From the Store menu, choose Authorize Computer.
- In the dialog that appears, the Apple ID button is selected by default. If you have an AOL account, select AOL.
- Enter your Apple ID or AOL screen name and password, then click the Authorize button.
- Connect your iPod to the computer.
- Click the Transfer Purchases button, Or, you can right-click (Windows or Mac) or Control-click (Mac only) your iPod in the iTunes Source list, then choose Transfer Purchases from the shortcut menu that appears.
Note: If the iTunes Store purchases on your iPod were purchased with multiple accounts, you will need to authorize the computer for each one.
Well, you may be confused with those multiple steps and authorization things. To make the task simpler, you are highly recommended to the method 2 here, which is accomplished successfully and efficiently within two simple steps:
Method 2: Transfer all old iPod music, videos to Mac and then sync them to new iPod
SyncPod is an easy-to-use program that can help you transfer your songs and videos to Mac without iTunes. You can easily copy songs and movies to Mac with only a few clicks, saving you hassle of changing the settings on your Mac.
Note: If you only need transfer your iPod music back to your Mac, you can use FreeSync to be your assistant. Detailed information about the Mac, go to the user guide of FreeSync.
Download and Install SyncPod and connect your iPods to Mac
Launch the Mac app and the main interface would like the image below, the left part is your iPod Touch library and the right lays your local iTunes library.
Click "Music" or "Movies" playlist and then drag your iPod touch files to Mac iTunes
This SyncPod enables you to transfer songs and videos from iPod touch to Mac freely by directly dragging them to the right. No matter what category you opened on your iPod touch iTunes library, the right part, say, your local iTunes library would be showed automatically and be synced ground. You even can sync the whole category to your local iTunes also by dragging it to right column. So here, you only need:
- Open your old iPod in the left column by select it in the top left of the main interface, then drag the target music files as well as videos to the right region;
- Select your new iPod to activate it on the top left of the app and then backup the local iTunes library or media files you just transferred from your old iPod to the left. That's it. Now you can freely enjoy your favorite music, movies collected for days.
SyncPod supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone OS 3.0, iPhone 4, the iPod touch 4G , and the new iPod nano, new iPod classic, new iPod shuffle and new iTouch. It supports multiple iPods or iPhones connected to Mac simultaneously so you can manage all your iPods and iPhones conveniently without setting different users accounts.
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