Moving Your Music

If you keep your music library as a collection of MP3 files, this is an easy process, because iTunes happily plays MP3 files—no file translation necessary. Here’s how to move them over.

On the PC:

1.
Select the folder that contains your MP3 files—typically My Music inside the My Documents folder—and then select Edit > Copy.
2.
Open the Music folder of the Switch CD folder set, and transfer your music by choosing Edit > Paste. If you have any other folders that contain music, use the same process to transfer those files.

On the Mac:

1.
Put the Switch CD in your Mac’s optical drive, and when it mounts on the Desktop, open the music folder on it.
2.
Open iTunes by clicking its icon in the Dock or by navigating to Applications ...

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