From PC to iMac - what  do with my painfully organised music collection?

Hello,
I have just made the jump from PC to an iMac and I am looking at transferring my music collection. At the moment I use iTunes on the PC. I have a collection that is roughly 120GB in size and comprises of pretty much MP3's. I organise this myself.
My folder structure is
Artist
-Album 01
-Album 02
-Track 01.mp3
- etc
and I also have separate folders for Soundtracks and Compilations, which then contain each separate . The ID3 tags in these have the Album Artist field as Various Artists and the Artist field as the Actual Artist.
I use Tag and Rename to sort all my tags and I then add a 600x600 artwork named folder.jpg into the album folder and then set that as the artwork within the files ID3 tags.
All this displays flawlessly within iTunes.
I am now trying to migrate to the mac and i have this 120GB "Music" folder thats neatly organised and I'm not sure what to do with it?

shornuk wrote:
i'm considering a NAS ... maybe I can use it for Time Machine back-ups as well.
Is there anything specific I should be looking for?
you should peruse this http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/2.html, especially the part talking about NAS.
I want the NAS drive to be permanently on and connect to the router, and to be automatically connected to whenever the Mac is switched on. I don't want to have to manually connect into it each time I boot up. Any thoughts??
you can add the NAS to your startup items (system preferences > accounts > startup items). that way it will automatically mount on your desktop when you start up your Mac.
JGG

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