HT1473 Need to import a large amount of music into an established Itunes library

I have music stored on another drive that I want to import into Itunes. Is there any way to do this without having to go song by song? It is over 8 gigs of songs

Yes. See thesupport article below. If you want to copy the contents from the EHD to your current library, make sure Preferences > Advanced > Copy files to Media folder when Adding to Library is checked beforehand.
iTunes: About the Add to Library, Import, and Convert functions

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I am new to InDesign and would really appreciate some tips/advice on how best to transfer a large amount of text from Microsoft Word into an InDesign document. I have been tasked with creating a very simple pocket sized book, the content of which will be a series of business Acronyms (700+) and their defintions (just imagine a very simple dictionary). As you can imagine there is a lot of text in the Microsoft Word document so any advice on how to transfer it all as quickly as possible would be really helpful. Or, as the case may be, would it be simpler to just use another programme?
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Hello
I would very much appreciate it if someone could tell me how to get the music from my old ipod mini into the new itunes library on my new laptop.
The mini was previously sync'd with my old PC which died so my files are only present on the ipod. Upon loading itunes, the software is only letting my sync the ipod providing I wipe it (obviously not desirable...)
Thanks for any support, Andy

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1. find a song that is going to be missing, not hard since its a lot more than 50% of my library.
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