Export and Convert Music Efficiently from your iTunes

Being one of the best developed media playing software iTunes is capable of playing different types of audio and video files and if you are thinking about how to addvideo to iTunes then for your kind information you can just drag and drop the video files located on your hard disc to add them to the iTunes library and later can synchronize them with your video enabled iPodtoo. Along with Apple Digital Video Format iTunes alsosupports .mov, .mp4 and .m4v files too and the files you drag and drop to add to your iTuneslibrary will come under the movie section and are stored inside the music library on your hard disc just like the music files.

If you are using iTunes both in your PC and in your iPod then you can alwaysmove songs from iPod to iTunes that enables you to move your music to another computer without losing your songs.

Once you have connected your iPod with your PC and have checked ‘Enable Disc Use’ in the iPod management screen it will show up as a drive on your PC. Houdini isfree software that you can download for free from apple and once that is installed you will be able to view all the music folders that apple keeps hidden by default.

Now you can select the folders you want to copy to your PC and drag and drop them to the desired location to transfer songs from iPod to iTunes. You can copy these folders directly to the ‘Add Automatically to iTunes’ folder located inside your media folder to automatically update your iTunes library with the new songs and media files.

But whenever you transfer music from iPod to iTunes keep in mind that you must not synchronize your iPod with your iTunes until and unless you have transferred all the media files to your PC.

As a digital media player that runs on both Mac and windows platforms iTunes is extremely powerful for organizing your music but it is not a very tool for exporting playlists. But if you really want to export songs from itunes without any third partyapplication by simply going to ‘File > Library > Export Playlist’.

With iTunes you can export your playlist and save it in plain or Unicode text along with in XML, M3U and M3U8 format. With iTunes you can export your music files to along with the playlist but if you have a number of playlists then accomplishing this might require a lot of time and with a third party tool called iTunes Export and with this particular tool you can also convert songs for iTunes to play them with other media players.