Do you need to transfer your music files from Windows Media Player to your iOS device? No problem. The easiest way to do this is to use iTunes, but you'll need to transfer your music to the program's library before proceeding. In reality, you won't have to copy or move any files, just locate the folder on your computer where all your music is stored.
Steps
Step 1. Find where the music in your Windows Media Player library is stored
This program loads audio files from your computer's hard drive into its library. To be able to do the same thing with iTunes, you simply need to know the exact path where your music tracks reside.
- Start Windows Media Player.
- Access the File menu, choose the item manage media catalogs and finally select the Music option. If the menu bar is not visible, press the Alt key.
- Make a note of all the folders that Windows Media Player scans to categorize your music. These are the directories that contain all the audio files that are played by the program.
Step 2. Consider consolidating audio files
If your Windows Media Player music library is fragmented into a large number of folders, you may want to consider grouping all your audio files into a single directory so that transfer to iTunes is much easier. iTunes will scan all items in this folder, including subdirectories. So, if you've decided to create a Music folder to store all your music tracks, you can still use subfolders to make it easier to organize your data.
Step 3. Launch iTunes
Once you have found out where your music resides on your computer, you can proceed to import it into your iTunes library.
Step 4. Access the File menu
If the menu bar is not visible, press the Alt key.
Step 5. Choose the Add folder to library item
A dialog box will appear that will allow you to browse the contents of your computer.
Step 6. Select the folder you want to add to the iTunes library
Refer to the paths you noted in the previous steps and navigate to the first folder in the list. Just select the main folder and all the subdirectories inside will be added automatically. If you want, you can just select the entire hard drive (C: \, D: \, etc.), all the audio files inside will be added to the iTunes library.
Selecting the entire hard drive may also include audio files belonging to programs that are not of your interest to your iTunes library
Step 7. Repeat the previous step for any other folders on your list
If you have consolidated all your music into a single directory, you will need to add only that one. Conversely, if your music is stored in multiple folders, you will need to import each individual directory.
Step 8. Convert each protected file (WMA)
Protected "WMA" files cannot be imported into iTunes. This is a proprietary file format of Windows Media Player that includes copyright protection. In order to import this type of file into iTunes, you will first need to remove this protection and then proceed with the import. See this guide for more information on the conversion process.
