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I want to Import music playlist from iTunes to Windows Media Player

Anonymous
2010-06-29T21:15:21+00:00

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-06-30T15:08:40+00:00

    Hi,

    Songs you buy on the I Store (Songs from ITunes) are downloaded in a format calledAAC (Advance audio coding); the Windows Media Player doesn't recognize this file format.

    When you click on the library tab (on windows media player) and then add to library, Windows Media Player will search for available files, it will find your songs bought on the iTunes store but it won’t import them, you will have toconvert them to a format that the player can understand .

    I would suggest you to follow these steps and check if it helps:

    1. Open up iTunes, click on Edit, Preferences, Advanced and Importing.
    2. Change your "Import Using" drop-down to "MP3 Encoder".
    3. Exit from your preferences and go to the main library view in iTunes. You may want to sort all of your music by "File Type".
    4. Highlight all of your unprotected AAC files. (You can not convert or play songs you purchased from the iTunes Music Store because of a lock Apple is forced to put on the files called "FairPlay".)
    5. Right-click and select "Convert Selection to MP3". It'll take awhile.
    6. When all the files have converted to MP3 format, close iTunes.
    7. Open Windows media player, hit F3.
    8. You get an "add to library" drop down box with a list of folders that WMP is monitoring for new media files. If you don't see this list, click on "advanced Options" then click on ADD Navigate to the root folder holding your iTunes music files. This path will usually be c:\My Documents\My music\itunes\itunes music.
    9. Click OK. WMP will scan the folder and all its subfolders and add those music files to your library. Any AAC files and music purchased from the iTunes Music Store will be skipped.
    10. When the import is finished exit WMP and open Music Bridge From the "Synch from iTunes" box chose "All Data" confirm this when asked: Do you really want to.
    11. Wait till your data is synced
    12. When this is done open WMP and check to see that the files are indeed there.

    For more information refer these links:

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Add-items-to-the-Windows-Media-Player-library

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/C00D1199

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-02T19:46:00+00:00

    If it's the playlist itself you want importing, then I may have found a way.

    I would first suggest adding the files to the library. Adding the iTunes folder to the library music folder list (File->Manage Libraries->Music) worked for me.

    Either way, once the files are in your library, in iTunes right click the playlist you want to transfer and select export.

    Name the file whatever you want but use the .m3u file type. Save the file, then return to Windows Media Player.

    Open the file (Ctrl+O or File->Open) and select the playlist file you saved.

    I did the above for my playlist and it worked. I hope it works for you if you still need it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-08-04T06:31:37+00:00

    Very helpful, thank you! I saw lots of suggestions on how to transfer a library from iTunes to WMP, but yours was the first answer of how to get the playlist copied. You just saved me a few hours re-building a 200+ song playlist.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-28T10:26:24+00:00

    He asked about importing playlists.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-03T22:49:35+00:00

    The newer versions of WMP automatically find and play the itunes playlist.

    Out of despiration I found this thread since my POS iTunes crashes after it eats of 1.5GB of RAM (apparently apple programmers aren't smart enough to know that once you use a chunk of RAM for a track, you actually have to release it back to the OS).

    Anyways, I opened WMP, and it shows all the iTunes playlist, and just works. Thanks MS. You made that an easy switch. I like iTunes for their playlist generation, but that bloated software is some of the worst written **** of all time...

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