If you formatted the hard drive, they are gone.
It won't copy if you manually manage music. Copy the MP3s to your hard drive and then import the folders in ITunes.
If the song is permanently deleted from every source you have, you will just have to pay for it again.
Yes, you can put your iTunes files on a portable hard drive. Simply drag and drop the files in iTunes to the drive on your computer that is your portable hard drive. You can even drag the iTunes software itself, if you want.
Finder >Your home folder > Music> iTunes > iTunes music. Depending how big this folder is, copy it onto a flash drive/external hard drive and paste it on to your new Mac, then go into iTunes and import the music folder. Should work. Good luck and congrats on the new Mac!
Do you mean you deleted them from your Itunes? If so than go to:# My Music>Itunes>Itunes playlist>(than you go to the Artist of the song and open it, open the album, than delete the song that you want to delete(you will have to do this 300 times though(if you had only 300 songs on Itunes to begin with and deleted every single one than right click in the folder: My Music>Itunes>Itunes playlist; and then click Select All and then Delete.) If you have an IPOD Touch or IPone than you might have been able to delete them straight from the phone, if so follow the same rules but delete those same songs from your ITunes playlist also.Anyways, Why would you want to delete 300 songs from ITunes? That is about $325 worth!
To transfer iTunes from an external hard drive to a mac, simply go to finder and click on the external hard drive under devices on the left. Once that window opens you can either open the tracks or drag and drop them into one of the hard drive directories.
The songs in your iTunes library are independent of your iTunes account. In other words, your music files are stored on your hard drive, not on the cloud. Unless you store your music on iCloud, your music stays on your hard drive when you log out of iTunes, just as all your other files stay on your computer. If you wanted, you could open the music files with a different program.
yes, you download to a file on your hard drive and then use a program like NERO to burn the songs (files) onto a cd. yes, depending on what type of file the song is, if it is a MP3, WMA, or wave you can use programs like Windows Media Player or iTunes. Once you import the songs to either of these, you have the opption to burn them to CD. >>MATT
how do I retrieve my Itune music after restore my hard drive
File > Import > Video
The number of files is limited by disk size and the file sizes. iTunes can stream from files up to 4GB. Basically, The larger your hard drive, the more songs you can store there. But iTunes can link to external hard drives and USB Flashdrives at the same time, so if you have external drives and a hub, there is no limit. You can set up iTunes in its preferences to either copy songs into your iTunes library, which limits the library size to the size of your hard drive, or have iTunes link to files outside the physical iTunes library, which means you can connect as many drives as you can and link to as many songs as you want. USB chains can be very long, and there could be a problem with the USB setup if you change the locations of the drives, but as far as iTunes goes, it is probably limited by what can be indexed by the system, which is probably in the millions.