Downloading music from external hard-drive to C drive

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HCARPENTER23

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Help! I have read some of the articles on this age regarding this same probem and I cant make any sense out of it..My external hard-drive will let me copy my music playlist but wont play after I have pasted it into another file and removed the external hard-drive from the CPU....what am I doing wrong?
 
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You say you're copying a playlist from your external drive to an internal drive, right? And then you remove the external drive and want to listen to your tunes. Here's what I think is wrong. A "playlest" is just a shortcut. All it does is points your media player to where the files are stored. When you copy your existing playlist from external to internal it still points to the extenal HDD. If you remove the external HDD there's nothing to play. If you really want to play your tunes without using the external HDD you must copy or move the files to the internal HDD abd create a new platlist that points to the new location.
 
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Could you please tell me how to copy the files to the internal HDD to create the new playlist? Do I use itunes Windows media, Realplayer, or none of the above? I am kind computer illiterate in this sense....Thank you for your help!
 
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I'm not sure if you're trying to do something more complicated than it sounds like....but if all you're trying to do is take songs from your external drive and put them on the internal one, you just grab the files and drag them from one folder to the other. Then, add them to the music player of your choice.

However, if you're trying to grab JUST the songs on that play list, that won't exactly work the way you're trying to do it. As said above, the playlist is just a bookmark, or a table of contents. It tells the music player to grab specific files from a specific folder and play them in the order they're listed.
 
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You create a playlist from within your media player. Apparently you've already done that once so just do it again after you copy your files. Copy files by using the left mouse button to highlight the file you want to move. You can move more than one at a time by holding down the "ctrl" button while left clicking on individual files. Once the files are highlighted, right click in an open area of your desktop and select "copy' from the menu that appears. Doing this places a shortcut to the highlighted files onto the clipboard. Now navigate to the folder where you want your files located and right click on that folder. From the menu that appears, select "paste". A progress bar will likely appear telling you how long the copy will take.
 
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