r/applehelp • u/thepurplesloth92 • 8d ago

Transferring Music from old iPad into iTunes: Is it possible? iTunes

I have an old iPad Air that houses my entire music library (nearly 16k songs). This collection comprises of about 1,000 iTunes purchases while the other 15k songs were imported directly from CDs or legally downloaded from the internet. A while back I lost the physical computer that all these songs were downloaded to, leaving me with just the iPad. I have since purchased a new laptop and would like to transfer all my music on to it. Which brings me to the problem: When I plug my iPad into the computer, iTunes will only allow me to transfer the purchased items and not the rest. How do I import the rest? There HAS to be some way… Thanks in advance.

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u/dontovar 8d ago

Transferring Music from old iPad into iTunes: Is it possible?

As far as what Apple offers? No. The transfer of music is intended to be one way only.

That said, you can get a third party app (that you would have to purchase) such as iMazing to accomplish this.

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u/_methuselah_ 8d ago

Check out Senuti (iTunes backwards). It used to do this.

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u/fuckin_eddie_dingle 5d ago

Also to prevent this in the future I subscribe to ITunes Match. $20 a year and takes all the cds you manually ripped to your computer and makes them available on all your devices.