Backing up songs

I am trying to back up my songs on itunes in case my computer crashes. I consolidated my library and am trying to save it on to a pen drive. However, there is not nearly enough memory, even though the pen drive has a fairly large memory. Is there a way I can reduce the size? Because otherwise I'm going to have to go and by loads of pen drives, which is too expencive. Do apple not have another way of saving songs in case the computer crashes?

Question, how big is your pen drive and how much music do you have??
do you have a DVD burner?? IF you do, your best option is to backup all your music on DVDs....
you could zip the entire music folder, but even then, you're not going to save THAT much space
You're better off backing up (not burning through itunes or the like) all the music files to blank CDs rather than buying a whole bunch of pen drives...
MUCH cheaper

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