What's the easiest way of transferring my iTunes library on to a new laptop without burning them to CD? All the music I have is from CDs, not the Apple store.
Jeremy Thomas
CD-R discs are cheap so it's best to burn your tracks to CD, so that you'll have back-ups. You can do the transfer using the backup feature in iTunes 8. If you have an iPod, you can use that by switching it to manual update and enabling disk use, though this can be a bit complicated: see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329. Either way, I'd suggest reading the iLounge guide Transferring your iTunes Library first. Of course, you can always copy your unprotected music files to a new PC via a USB thumbdrive and start again. However, you will lose any iTunes metadata, such as playlists
