Saving playlists & finding music after imac/itunes upgrade

I was on an imac G4 (with iTunes 5.0.1) and upgraded to an imac G5 (with iTunes 4.7.1 installed). My question is how do I save the playlists I created in iTunes on the old computer? Do I first upgrade to 5.0.1 on the new computer and transfer some file or preference file from the "old" itunes?
Also, regarding moving music to a new computer, after the switch my new iTunes had about 100 songs less than the old iTunes. After all the music was transferred to the new computer I performed "consolidate library" and it did find some songs that did not get transferred off of the old imac, but I'm still "missing" songs. What can I do to locate those?

Hello Nathan,
Two things going on here... you need to upgrade the G5 to iTunes 5.0.1 and the files that have already been accessed by this version should be made available to you again... the older 4.7.1 does not fully understand the latest formats and there has been changes made....
Have a backup copy of the iTunes Library file and if you still have the older version iTunes 4 Music library file keep that as well... that is where all the data you want to keep is.
When you have updated it would be a good idea to start fresh and put all the music data files from the old G4 again into the new iTunes Music folder on the G5 and put the saved libray file from the G4 in the iTunes folder... if there is one already there move it to the desktop and edit the name of the backup to be iTunes Library... note you will have to trash the files you have moved but only if you still have the originals.
Follow the instructions here and also include the Tiger 10.4.2 combo update at the bottom of the page and insert it where told.
take care Nathan and let's know how you get on ..... TP

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