Best way to move small subset of music from external drive to laptop?

I have all my music on an external harddrive. I want however, a small subset of that music to be on my laptop, so if I'm away from my external drive, I can listen to a few things. What's the best way to do each of these: moving one song, a playlist of songs or a random selection of songs.
Thanks,
JONATHON
I have a powerbook G4, OS/X: 10.4.11, i-tunes 9.1.1

Can you direct me to your solution?
I recently consolidated all of my 130GB of media onto an external hard drive [EHD}.  Now I want to remove a remaining subset of 70GB still remaining on my laptop. Although attaching the external drive to laptop works well for listening to music,  slightly more convenient would be to have a very small subset of music on my laptop. Most convenient, would be 10 or 20 of my favorite playlists, in sum, perhaps 1,000 mp3s.  If I completely delete itunes [libraries and files] from the laptop, i think i understand how to transfer such playlists from the EHD to the laptop. However, I am not crystal clear as to  the most efficient way to selectively 'copy' only the corresponding  1,000 mp3s from the EHD  [comprising 130GB worth!] to the laptop? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Really appreciate it.

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