I am setting up a new Mac and I want my iTunes Media on a separate drive

I am upgrading from an iMac to a Mac Pro.
On the Mac Pro I have a 120gb SSD boot drive.
I want to put my iTunes media files on a second drive in the Mac Pro.
I have seen instructions on how to put iTunes media on an external drive.
However, I am switching computers and I want to move my iTunes media from the older iMac to a non-boot drive on the newer Mac Pro.
I do not really want to use Migration Assistant because I am making a clean install of all apps and documents on the new machine.
I would like to keep my playlists and podcast subscriptions.
The new machine is running 10.9 and the older machine is running 10.7.5.
I am looking forward to answers that will help this iTunes move work.
Thanks in advance.

Don't move ony the iTunes media folder. Too many issues can occur. Keep everything in the iTunes folder.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from old computer to the secondary drive on the Mac Pro.
On the Mac Pro, hold Option, launch iTunes, select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the secondary drive.
That's all you need to do.

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