How do i email or upload my entire itunes library so i can put it on a diff

how do i email or upload my entire itunes library so i can put it on my laptop!
im getin ready 4 a party and realised i need music to be moved on2 my laptop!!
iv tries to email it but file attatching only allows one song a time and id b years doin dat!
any ideas! asap
thanx holly

Holly:
I'm assuming that you have your iTunes library on a desktop machine and want to move your songs to your laptop. You have a couple of choices. If your library is small, you can create a backup copy onto a Data CD then copy the CD's contents onto your laptop.
1) Go to Preferences, select the Burning tab, click on the Data CD option.
2) Create a new playlist and copy the contents of the library to this new playlist.
3) Right-click on the new playlist and select Burn Playlist to disc
4) Launch iTunes on your laptop
4) Once the CDs are burned on your desktop, take them over to the laptop and copy them into your iTunes Music folder on the laptop
5). Launch iTunes on your laptop and drag the tracks from the iTunes Music folder onto iTunes.
If your library is not so small (ie, it won't fit on just a couple of data CDs)
If your ipod is less than half full, you can use it to quickly transfer the songs:
On your desktop:
1) Launch iTunes and go to Edit ... Preferences. Leave the window open
2) Plug in your iPod to the desktop machine
3) Once its active on your desktop, open My Computer and you will see your iPod mounted as a "Removable Disk". Open this icon up and you will see several folders such as "Calendars", "Contacts", etc. Right-click within this window and select New ... folder to create a new folder on your iPod
4) Open that new folder up
5) Go to your iTunes Music folder and copy its contents into the new folder you created above.
6) Once completed, go to iTunes and cancel out of the Preferences window. Your iPod will update and then will dismount. (If you've changed your setting to keep the iPod mounted at all times, then you will need to right-click on your iPod entry to eject it.)
Go over to your laptop and do the following:
1) Launch iTunes and go to Edit ... Preferences. Leave the window open
2) Plug in your iPod to the laptop
3) Once its active on your desktop, open My Computer and you will see your iPod mounted as a "Removable Disk". Open this icon up and you will see the new folder you just created above
4) Open that new folder up and copy all your tracks to the iTunes Music folder on your laptop
5) Cancel out of the preferences window. Your iPod should unmount.
6) With iTunes open on your laptop, click on Library.
7) Go to the folder on your laptop that contains all your songs, select all your tracks and drag them into iTunes.

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