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iTunes 7 : To backup our media in iTunes.

The Back Up to Disc feature saves your media to a blank disc (CD or DVD) and once backed up, iTunes can use your backup disc(s) to automatically restore your iTunes library. To know how to backup media iTunes, follow this article.

iTunes 7 offers a new way to back up your iTunes library, playlists, and iTunes Store purchases for safekeeping.

If there are many discs which are useful for a backup, jusr reduce that number of discs. To solve this problem iTunes can perform  incremental backups (only items added or changed since the last backup).

Backing up your iTunes library to a CD or DVD:

Note: Your computer must have a compatible CD burner and DVD burner  to burn a CD (CD-R or CD-RW) and DVD (DVD-R or DVD-RW).

Check in iTunes Preferences whether the drive is compatible or not. To do this follow these steps as mentioned below:

Create backup iTunes.
Restoring from a backup disc
Check drive compatibility
Create backup iTunes
  • Go to File menu >  choose Back Up to Disc
  • Select the option you want from the resulting dialog and click Back Up


The two options you can select from are:
  1. Back up entire iTunes library and playlists
  2. Back up only iTunes Store purchases
  • Insert a blank disc (CD or DVD) into your computer's optical drive. Now  iTunes will scan the disc and begin burning

Note: If the disc you insert does not have enough space to hold all of the media you will be backing up, a dialog will appear asking whether you wish to backup to multiple discs. You can click Data Discs to continue.

iTunes burns the number of items that fit on one disc and then asks you to insert subsequent discs to continue burning the remaining files. Don't eject a disc while a backup is in progress.

Spoken programs purchased from the Audible.com website are not backed up.

Discs you create using the iTunes backup feature can be used only to restore; they can't be played in a CD or DVD player.

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  Restoring from a backup Disc
  • Open iTunes
  • Insert your backup disc
  • iTunes will ask whether you want to restore from this disc. Click Restore

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Check drive compatibility
  • Open iTunes Preferences:

         1. Mac: From the iTunes menu choose Preferences
         2. Windows: On the Edit menu click Preferences
  • Click Advanced

  • Click Burning

  • If the drive is listed, it's compatible


If you want to just transfer purchased music to another authorized computer using the Sync iPod feature, just click here.

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Updated at:01 May 05:03
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