Many iPod users may come up with the similar problems. When a new iPod is released, some iPod users choose to update their old iPods to the new iPods. But the songs remain in the old ones. So users have to transfer music from the old iPod to new iPod with iTunes or download all the songs again from iTunes Store. Speaking of iTunes, users can actually rely on the software to transfer music. If you have music backups of the old iPod in iTunes, you can easily sync the songs with the new iPod. If you don’t have backups, you can transfer purchased songs from the old iPod to iTunes using the “Transfer Purchases” function of iTunes. But you won’t be allowed to transfer the songs from the old iPod to computer or new iPod if the songs were not purchased from iTunes. The following simple guidance is for transferring music from the old iPod to the new iPod with the “Transfer Purchases” function of iTunes:
Step One
Plug the Old iPod into computer via the USB cable. Then launch iTunes.
Step Two
Click “File > Device > Transfer Purchases”. iTunes will automatically transfer the songs to iTunes library.
Step Three
Plug the new iPod into computer. Then import the songs from iTunes to the new iPod.
Step Four
It is easy for you to transfer the purchased songs from the old iPod to the new one. But if you want to move the whole music library between iPods, you’d better not use iTunes. I recommend you an easy-to-use iPod transfer tool called Leawo iTransfer. This software will help you to transfer music from old iPod to new iPod with ease. The software is an iTunes companion, but it can transfer files without the synchronization of iTunes. With Leawo iTransfer, you are able to transfer music from iPod to iPod with pretty short time (depends on the size of the music library). This guidance below will show you how to transfer music from old iPod to new iPod, and you can feel free to download Leawo iTransfer and have a try:
Step Five
Run Leawo iTransfer after installing it on your PC. Then connect your iPods to computer with the USB cables. The software will automatically detect your devices and show the libraries of each iPod in the left sidebar.
Step Six
Click “Music” of the old iPod, and then the songs will be shown in the right part of the software. Click the transfer button (right arrow in a dark blue square) at the right bottom to transfer all the music files. Or you are allowed to hold “Ctrl” and click to choose songs, and then right click the chosen songs to “Transfer to > My New iPod”.
Step Seven
Transferring Music from Old iPod to New iPod. When the transfer begins, a dialog of transfer process will show up. The progress bar in the dialog will notice you the percentage of the music transfer. You will get all the songs in your new iPod when the transfer finishes.
Step Eight
Leawo iTransfer makes the data transfers among iOS devices, iTunes and PCs easy. And it provides much convenience for the file transfers in our daily lives, so check it out!