Backing up music to cds

I just got a new laptop and i need to move my itunes from my old laptop to the new. A while ago i backed up all my music to some CDs but since then i've gotten more music and stuff. Now i can no longer find the option to back-up the rest of my music to CDs. I do not have an extrenal hard drive and i have A LOT of music so i don't think it will fit on a flash drive. Please help!!! I don't want to have to find all my CDs, music files, & other people's CDs and re-download all of them again!

No. However, you can:
- connect each computer to the same network
- Enable sharing on the new computer hard drive
- On the old computer go to Networked devices What it is call depends upong the operating system. Click on the new computer and navigate to the iTunes library and just copy it to the old computer.

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