iTunes Back Up to Disc Oct22 '06

iTunes 7 new menu option, Back Up to Disc, works really well:

Screen shot of iTunes application

I was able to backup my entire music collection (currently 4889 songs, 23.44 GB) to six DVD-R's. With the price of DVD-R's being so cheap, this was a very easy decision.

iTunes makes the process as smooth as possible, considering it had to "break up" my music library to store on multiple discs. iTunes simply prompted me for each consecutive disc, as it completed burning the previous. All I had to do, each time, was pop-in a new disc, and it took care of everything.

Overall, the process took a few hours, but I blame that partially on my old Mac - it's a bit slower than normal.

Now I just need to do the same thing for my photos.

Categories: iTunes , Storage

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I've had issues with blank DVD's before - sometimes they can't be read, and OS X just kicks it out, like you mentioned. This didn't happen when I w ... Read more.

Too bad iTunes won't restore the music on the backup discs. I have iTunes 7, and I backed up to DVDs. In Windows Explorer, I can see the so ... Read more.

Paul, you're just choosing File > Add to Library? It seems iTunes should be able to load songs from any connected media or disk. I ... Read more.

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