How to Backup iTunes Library Easily [Top 3 Free Ways]

You could find millions of brilliant songs and movies in iTunes Store. Your favorite singers and actors release their works every year and you don’t want to miss any of them. Therefore, you have accumulated many files on PC. Some of them could be directly played, but some are just cache files. You need to organize files on PC and backup iTunes library, so you could play them without Internet next time and could easily transfer files from PC to iPhone.

How can I backup my iTunes library? You could check iTunes library before backing up it. Open iTunes > click Edit > select Preferences > select Advanced. The default iTunes media folder location is C:\Users\YourUserName\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media. You could go to this folder to check how many songs and movies have been saved. They could be directly copied to another location like external hard drive. However, this folder doesn’t include all the songs and movies in iTunes library now. Follow this passage to backup full library.

Way 1. Backup and Restore iTunes Library on Windows PC

How to backup iTunes library? To back up the entire iTunes library, you need to download all of them to your computer and make sure they are in one folder.

Part 1. Backup iTunes Library on Windows 10

Step 1: Open iTunes. Click Account to sign in with your Apple ID. You should sign in the right ID, or you will not find your purchased items.

Step 2: Click Account again and select Purchased. If you are using Family Sharing, it would be replaced with Family Purchased and it means you could download more items.

Step 3. Select Music or Film in the upper-left corner. Find the songs and movies and click the download button to download them all.

Step 4. Click Files, select Library, and then select Consolidate Files. This step would copy the media files which are not in the default location to the folder to make sure you could get the entire iTunes library in one folder.

Part 2. Restore iTunes Library from Backup on PC

Step 1. Quit iTunes > Copy the whole folder of iTunes to any location on the computer.

Step 2. Press Shift Key and open iTunes at the same time. iTunes would then tell you to import iTunes library.

Step 3. Click Choose Library and locate the folder on computer. You could find a file named “iTunes Library.itl”. Open it to restore the entire iTunes library.

Way 2. Backup iTunes Library Using iCloud.com

If you have enough space on iCloud, you could save the downloaded iTunes library to iCloud Drive. Usually, you just have 5GB of free iCloud storage, but films might take more space. You need to change iCloud storage plan if necessary. Follow the steps to back up iTunes library to iCloud:

Step 1. Download iTunes library and Consolidate Files to make sure every item is in one folder.

Step 2. Go to iCloud and sign in your Apple ID. Select iCloud Drive.

Step 3. Drag the whole folder of iTunes to the window or click the Upload Button to save iTunes library to iCloud Drive.

★Tip:

 If you wish to restore iTunes library, just download the folder to computer and then restore iTunes library following the first method.

Way 3. Backup Music Library from iPhone to PC

Your iPhone could store many songs purchased from the iTunes Store, but they could not be easily shared. If you AirDrop a song from your playlist, the target device would only receive a link to purchase that song. When you get a new iPhone, you can transfer data from old iPhone to new iPhone without downloading it again.

AOMEI FoneBackup is the tool you need now. It could backup the entire music library to computer and help you transfer files from PC to iPhone. It would be very helpful if you want to the easiest way to backup music library and transfer music tracks. You could backup films on iPhone at the same time if you want.

Step 1. Download AOMEI FoneBackup and connect iPhone to PC

You need to connect iPhone to computer with USB cable and tap “Trust” on iPhone, or your iPhone would not be recognized by computer.

Step 2. View and select songs and videos from music library

Go to Phone Backup, and choose Selective Backup. and then click the icon of music to preview all the songs on iPhone. If you want to transfer videos along with the songs, you could also click the icon of videos to select videos. After selecting all the songs and videos, click OK to return.

Step 3. Start Backup

Click Start Backup on the home screen to save all the music and videos to computer in seconds.

★Tips:

 You could locate the files by clicking the pin icon in Backup Management so you could enjoy them on computer.

 If you need to restore music library to another device, just connect the target device to computer, select the backup task in Backup Management, and then click Restore. You could also selectively restore music from that backup.

Conclusion

Your iTunes library on PC needs to be organized. You could use iTunes to put all the resources in one folder and backup the library to an external hard drive. iTunes makes managing your songs and videos easy, but you could have an easier way to do that.

AOMEI FoneBackup would let you have more flexible choices when you back up music library from iPhone to your computer and transfer songs to your new iPhone or another device. Isn’t it a good try? Download AOMEI FoneBackup and enjoy its wonderful features!