How do I keep my playlists when hooking up new computer

I bought a new computer for christmas and have saved my music files to an external hard drive to transfer but how do I save my playlists so I will not need to re-create them?

iTunes supports MP3s natively.
There is nothing to import.
Copy the ENTIRE iTunes folder from the old computer to the new computer then launch iTunes.  Everything on the new computer will be exactly as it was on the old computer.

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