HT4527 Transferring music from laptop to desktop?

Hi! I am a masive music junkie and have over 2k songs on my laptop that I want to transfer to my desktop since the laptop is close to dying and I don't want to lose all that music never mind all the money I spent on that music. I don't have an external hardrive nor do I have an ipod (it died) I remember a few years ago when I transferred my music for another laptop all I had to do was go to some drop bar list to export the song it was time consuming since I had to do every song but I can't seem to find that opinion now. Any ideas would be great and no I don't have the money to buy an external hard drive since I just got the desk top, please I want to save my music before my laptop mother board dies taking everything with it - Thanks It isn't an apple computer it is Dell sorry.

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Hello, Sandralee59.
Thank you for the question. The attached article below provides multiple options for moving your iTunes library to a new computer.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
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Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide - http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/ - Information about use in disk mode pertains only to older model iPods.
Get Your Music Off of Your iPod - http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Get_Your_Music_Off_of_Your_iPod - I am not sure but this may only work with some models and not newer Touch, iPhone, or iPad.
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