Moving Back from External

I have been using an external HD with my old iMac. I now have a new Mac and it's using the same library but I've been having a few weird issues while syncing iPad etc. Plus it still shows up on Apple TV as "27" iMac Library". Since we have to keep so little data in our libraries these days, I was thinking of moving the library onto my new mac. Will I have more problems if I do this? Should I just use Migration Assistannt? Is there a specific support article from Apple on this?

On my computer all my iTunes music is in folders by album and all albums in "iTunes Music" folder inside "iTunes" folder... Try just copying the iTunes Music folder over all together, then open iTunes, open Preferences>Advanced, set it to find that folder. Don't know if you also have to go under Files>Add to Library and select them all too maybe.

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