Getting Windows iTunes on a USB drive to play on our 2020 GMC Sierra

[KatGV]

Hello we are having a relly hard time Getting Windows iTunes on a USB drive to play on our 2020 GMC Sierra.... Hubby did it one time He said he dragged his itunes icon to the drive and after a few tries he finally got his to work. When I try this it just copies the itunes icon ONLY to the drive. so I just copied the iTunes folder.  But I can't get mine to work from my Windows 10 PC with the last iTunes download available. Intellelink says "no device "   Help Please 

 

p.s. he cant recreate what he did the first time either

[bdallas]

You just need the music files on the USB, not iTunes.

 

Assuming that you have non copyright protected DRM-free music files, other wise you won't be able to copy the files and/or they won't play.

 

Plug your USB into your computer.

Open iTunes on your computer.

Select/highlight the songs/playlists that you want to transfer to the USB.

Drag and Drop... right from the iTunes browser window to the USB drive.

 

There are other ways too.. such as finding where iTunes stores the music files on your computer.

It would be withing your iTunes Media folder.

By default, your iTunes Media folder is in your iTunes folder. To find it, go to User > Music > iTunes > iTunes Media.

If it is not there...

Open iTunes, from the menu bar select Edit>Preferences>Advanced.

Look in the box under "iTunes Media folder location" for the location of your iTunes Media folder.

Be very careful messing around within the iTunes folders. If you delete, move, or change anything, iTunes will break.

You can copy the Media folder to the USB drive.

 

The Apple Support forums would be a better place to get help with this matter.

 

 

 

 

 

[Wayne Black]

What he said.

All I did was to drag the Music folder which is located in the iTunes/iTunes Media folder into my thumb drive. It will take a while to copy if your library is large

You need to search for the actual Music folder (there can be more than one labeled "Music") that contains all your music listed alphabetically by artist/album in their individual folders.

 

I might add that not all usb thumb drives are made equal.

I found that a Samsung 32G works fine for me.

But for some reason a Sandisk 16G formatted exactly the same with Fat32 and loaded with my iTunes "Music" folder will not work in my 2020 Silverado. Even individual albums dragged and copied to the usb would not be recognised by the Entertainment system in the truck.

Go figure.

Good Luck!

[KatGV]

Thx guys, We were finally able to get it to work... Formatted to NTFS (although all the things I read said to use FAT32 this was the ONLY thing I did different than before Other than restarting the vehicle 3 times)  then went to my iTunes folder Drug the whole thing to the 58GB USB...   once done tried in 2020 Sierra had to shut off the vehicle about 3 times before it finally recognized the USB now we have BOTH our iTunes in his truck idk how much storage is in these but mine alone was 20 Gigs??? Thx again