Backing up music library and keeping album art
I am getting ready to format my computer and want to make sure that when i am up and running again all i have to do is install itunes and my backed up music over and will be good to go. For alot of my music i had to add my album art manually. I saved the image for the album off the web and than dragged and dropped it into the bottom left hand corner for the album art section in the play list. How can i ensure that i am not going to have to do it all over again when i import my music folder after re-format?
Thanks for the replies guys. I was thinking about actually backing up "my music" folder in "my documents" in Word rather than just copying the tracks, but I don't know how to back up other than by just dropping and dragging the tracks onto a CD. I have searched in Microsoft Office help but there is no reference to backing up. Is burning them onto blank cd's the quickest way? Also if I need to get them back off the cd and put them back onto the computer can that be done and if so how and would it be done using the Creative software or just Explorer or My Computer?
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