Moving an Itunes library

The Last Gent

Ok, heres the situation: Just got a new Macbook (thanks to the people on this forum that helped me pick it), and I want to transfer my itunes library from my home Imac to this one. It dawned on me now that I don't have a bloody clue how to go about doing that. I suppose I could manually copy songs from it onto my thumb drive, but that'd take ages and ages, and its about 2 gigs of stuff, so I lack a single storage device that could carry it all. Basically, is there some easy way I could do a massive dump between computers? Bearing in mind I'm not that computer savvy, I apologize if it's something obvious I'm missing.

The Last Gent

Bumping back to the first page. If I sign up for the free trial of .mac on both computers, can I transfer the library that way? I may try that tomorrow when I can get the email address of a family member to use for one account, but if anyone knows if that works or if there's an easier way before then, can you tell me?

TrippyDK

Do you have an ipod now?

If so, connect it to your new macbook, click manually manage, and enable disk use. Then explore the ipod and copy all the 4 letter named files over. Then add those to your library...those are your songs. Theres also plenty of programs to do this for you

IreneDAdler

Do you have a home network set up? That'd probably be the easiest way to copy files over, since it'd be a one-step transfer between your computers.

area

Grab a firewire cable, boot up the iMac holding T on the keyboard, and plug it into the Macbook. It should appear as an external hard drive, and you just copy the files straight across.

EggyToast

Yes, do the firewire method. And then go into iTunes and Export your Library. You'll get an XML file. You then import on your laptop. This allows you to maintain all the "other" things such as ratings, frequency, last played, playlists, etc.