Sharing music - NOT Home Sharing or iTunes Match

My husband will be in a very remote location for six months. He will be taking his laptop and his iPad. He which will have electricity but very unreliable internet access, if any. He wants music. Lots of it. Problem is, the majority of the music we have purchased via iTunes and put onto our hard drive from our CD collection is on my computer. We have separate Apple IDs.
What is the easiest way to get the music from my iTunes on the iMac onto his MacBook iTunes?

This should be relatively easy.
You simply need to copy the music files to your husband's computer and import them into his library. Music that was bought recently has no protection. Music that was bought with protection will simply require that you authorize your husband's computer to play music using your Apple ID (it will ask you for the password the first time you try to play one of your music files on your husband's computer).
You are allowed to have up to 5 computers authorized to play music from a single Apple ID, and a single computer can be authorized to play music from more than one Apple ID.
If you can't find where your music files are located, you should be able to locate them by clicking on a music file in iTunes, and then right (control) clicking the file and choosing "show in finder".
Alternatively, if you turn on home sharing for both computers, your husband's iTunes account should be able to see your music library. If you click on it, and then click on "Show items not in my library", he should be able to see all of your music. He can then simply drag those files to his library and then he will be able to play them (after authorizing his computer with your Apple ID).

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