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3 years, 5 months ago about iTunes

Replacing 120GB External for iTunes Library with 320GB. How easy is the process?

I have a 120GB attached and serves as my music library for iTunes. After having less than half of space left, and continuing to add new albums every week, I decided to purchase a 320GB. I have all these playlists created and such an extensive library. Is there an easier process than manually adding hundreds of albums by hand? I have the latest 10.5.5 Mac OSX. Thanks

*UPDATE- To clarify, I manually manage the music directories in addition to where iTunes can look for the songs e.g. "F:120MusicGB\My Music\Rock\Coldplay" etc..
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sangosimo | 3 years, 5 months ago
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anebg | 3 years, 5 months ago
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"Look in the File Menu, there's an option to consolidate your library. This will copy your library to your default iTunes location. After this is done, you can just copy that folder and take it anyware. It'll contain your album art and so forth... Along with XMLs, ITL(itunes libary) files. It's fairly easy yet time consuming (consolidating, copying)
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dolphonia | 3 years, 5 months ago
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This article from apple explains how to move your library from one computer to another so simple copy the instructions except just moving hard drives rather than computer. It will preserve all your playlists,track details and album artwork.

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sw7 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Very simple, just hook both hard drives up, change the library location in iTunes preferences, press "Consolidate library" in iTunes (File - Library - Consolidate on Mac, not sure about Windows), and find the iTunes folder on the old drive and delete it (in Windows Explorer, not iTunes, and make sure you have them consolidated before you delete the old ones.)
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achristopher | 3 years, 5 months ago
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It's not difficult. Just move your library and just re link it to itunes,

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