Moving specific songs in iTunes from one computer to another

What is the easiest way for me to move selected songs from my current iBook to a new iBook I have given my daughter for Christmas. I would like to separate my music from her music and transfer her music to her iBook's iTunes.
Thanks!

Well...I think you could use a firewire cable and hook the computers to each other and just drag the files over. Or you could drag the files to a flash/thumb drive and then transfer them to her computer. If neither of those work for you, you could put all of her song files into a playlist on your computer, select the playlist and then choose Burn Playlist to Disc. Then put that disc (or discs) into her computer and import the songs into her iTunes library.

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