Switching to mac from pc itunes question.

I have an @#$load of movies, songs etc from itunes on my pc. I was thinking of finally making the switch to a Mac. Will I be able to copy my itunes files over? If so what would be the easiest way to do it? If I copied everything to an external drive will that work from pc to Mac?
Thanks for any help.

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