Best method of trasferrring itunes??

I have all my itunes on a gateway pc internal drive
I just bought an iMac and want to keep all my itunes on an external drive.
Is it as simple as buying the external drive, copying my old itunes drive from my gateway and then just plugging in the external drive to my iMac???

Plug in the external hard drive, find your iTunes folder on your computer. Copy it onto the new hard drive. Open iTunes, go on preferences, then advanced and change source music folder to the one on your hard drive. You can then delete the iTunes folder on the internal hard drive.

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