How to Transfer Music from External Hard Drive to iTunes with Ease

iTunes can be our good helper in managing and listening to music on the computer. You may like to add some non-purchased music to iTunes from an external hard drive. In this way, you can listen to your own music on the computer and also sync songs to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Here in this guide, we will show you two solutions for you to choose from. Let’s begin.

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Part 1. Transfer Music from External Hard Drive to iTunes Directly

iTunes supports users to directly add music from external hard drive. But one thing needs to be mentioned is that you can only transfer iTunes-supported music formats, such as MP3, AAC, M4A, WAV, M4R, AIF, AIFF and M4B. Here are the detailed steps of how to transfer music from a flash drive t your iTunes.

Step 1: Open iTunes > Plug in your external hard drive.

Step 2: Click on File menu in iTunes > Choose Add to Library.

Step 3: Select your external hard drive > Choose the music or music folder > Click on Open.

Part 2. Transfer Music to iTunes with AnyTrans

Users who are familiar with iTunes would be known that this tool is pretty tricky. All kinds of iTunes errors happened with no sign, and you don’t know whether the transferring is success or not because iTunes will send no notice. So if you don’t like iTunes and want to try other tools that can help you with ease.

Here we recommend AnyTrans to you, which can help you put music from an external hard drive into iTunes. Besides, you can export music or other files to iPhone/iPad/iPod. Also, it supports you import music from iDevices/iTunes to external hard drive to save the music you like. Let’s check other features that AnyTrans can do for you:

Step 1. Launch AnyTrans > Plug in your external hard drive to the computer > Click Device Manager and choose the Music tab on the homepage.

Step 2. Click on the Add button under Songs option> Choose the songs you want to transfer from external hard drive > Click on Open.

Step 3: Select the songs that have been transferred from external hard drive > Click on Send to iTunes under More option.

Step 4. When syncing finished, click view files, or iTunes will pop-up automatically. Then you can view and play the music from an external hard drive on iTunes.

The Bottom Line

Hope this guide can help you transfer music from an external hard drive to iTunes successfully. If you are interested in AnyTrans, just have a free trial and explore more!