Itunes transfer from PC to mac

Hi,
I can't figure out how to transfer my itunes account from my PC to my mac laptop to save my life. I know that you can use an ipod to transfer it over, but I would prefer not to do it that way. Please help!

Do you wish to use an external hard drive? If so you can do that, or you can use a local network, or even CDs/DVDs (a lot of them if you have a lot of music.)
Let me know how you wish to transfer it and I'll be able to more accurately detail what you need to do.
And in case you ask, no, you can't simply request a re-download of all of your purchases on another computer. You will need to use some sort of method to transfer your files over.

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You don't need to edit the .xml file or any file for that matter. All you need to do is to open iTunes. Go to File > Add to Library, it will open a window to locate your music. Select the songs, videos, etc that you want to add to iTunes. Also, iTunes will organise your iTunes media in the iTunes directory within Music (~Music/iTunes). So you would not need to manually copy the songs to the Music folder.
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The catch is, I have a Mac formatted iPod, so if I understand correctly, I can't use it as an external drive to take the library from the Windows machine.
Anyway. . I'm buying my fiancee a MacBook, and obviously she wants her iTunes library from her Windoze machine. Her iPod is a nano, so it's not large enough capacity to transfer her whole library to her new MacBook.
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One way would to be to re-format the ipod for windows, enable disk usage, copy her existing library, then transfer to the mac ( the mac will read a window formatted ipod). Otherwise, if you have the ability I suggest networking the 2 computers, (macs & pc's can be networked together without a lot of trouble) an transfer via ethernet.

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