How do you move iTunes music from an old computer to a new computer?

Advice and options would be greatly appreciated.

are we talking Mac or that other OS ?
Mac:
the simplest way, assuming all your media files are in the default location, would be to connect the two Macs with a firewire cable, boot the source Mac in Target Disk Mode, and copy the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes music folder) from <MacintoshHD>/users/yourname/music on the source to <MacintoshHD>/users/yourname/music on the target (overwriting the iTunes folder in place there).
winsloth:
copy the entire iTunes folder from the old to the exact same location on the new machine. you can use an external HD or your network to do that.

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