iTunes library on an external hard drive ... is this possible???

[OceanFrog]

Hi All.

I currently have my entire music library on a PC with iTunes 9. I have recently bought a MBP (loving it!!!) and I'm now giving my PC laptop to my nephew.

I have about 50GB of music in my iTunes library at the moment. I'm hoping to transfer all my music to an external HDD and use this as my iTunes library on my new MBP. There is very little disk space left on my PC laptop (about 10GB) so I cant "consolidate" my music on the PC.

So has anyone any ideas how I can copy all music, playlists, etc to my HDD and then use this as the source for iTunes on my new MBP?

 

[OceanFrog]

I might have found an answer here ... http://lifehacker.com/5261172/move-your-itunes-library-to-an-external-hard-drive

Is this the best way to do this?

 

[spice weasel]

Yup, that's the way to do it.