Moving my music to my imac

I have my music 190G on an external drive and would like to move it back to my imac as the ext HDD is going to fail soon, how can I do this?

go iTunes > preferences > advanced and change iTunes media folder location to the music folder on your Mac
on the same tab, ensure the copy files ... when adding option is checkmarked
go iTunes > file > library > organize library and choose to consolidate files
wait for the process to finish

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