HT4527 Transferring Itunes to Mac without duplicating

I've had my Mac for about a year and now decided to import all of my cd's into itunes on my HP computer because I don't have a cd drive on my Macbook air. What is the best way to move my itunes with all of the newly imported music from my HP computer to my Mac.  I was thinking of using an external hard drive but I'm not sure that's the best way.  I read about consolidating accounts, but it sounds like I'll end up with duplications.  We're talking A LOT of songs so I don't want to have to go through and delete all the duplicates.  Is that possible?  HELP!

Sorry, I was thinking about making sure you moved the library from one machine to the other in a way which keeps it working, assuming there was nothing already on the target machine. Merging libraries is a different issue, but in general I'd suggest moving the existing media folder on the Mac to one side, migrating the larger library from the HP (If I have that right?) then importing the media folder you put aside earlier. Finally dedupe using the process described in HT2905 - How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library...
Note that unlike Windows where the files and folders are merged. if you copy one folder on top of another in OS X the new folder completely replaces the one that was there before. Any files that were located in the old folder are completely destroyed.
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