How Do I Take My Playlists, Ratings etc with me....?

Hello all
I'm soon to swith jobs. I have my itunes on my work desktop (the actual MP4s are on an external hard drive which I'm taking with me). Questions is how do I take all my playlists etc with me? I think I've set up a back up of my Library...?
Any ideas?

You need to make copies of your iTunes library database files:
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By default these are in your iTunes folder in My Music on your c: drive. I would copy the iTunes folder itself as it also contains the album artwork folder.
However it is possible that you have your iTunes folder with the library databases set up on your external drive, in which case there is no problem.

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