How do I get songs from one computer to another?

  I had found it once on apple support, but I'm having trouble finding it again. Can someone tell me how you get your songs from one computer to another? I'm consolidating all the songs from my wife's laptop on to mine so we can share the same library, but I don't know how to get her songs on my computer, and as a result, my iTunes.

Go to the itunes folder and copy all of the songs on to an external hard drive.  Then copy them from the hard drive to the other computer
You could also use home sharing which will send the songs over your wireless.

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