Sychronizing music between computers

I download music to one "master" computer but then desire to sychronize the music from the master comuter my other "client" computers from time to time. How can I do this most efficiently? One option is to just erase the old itunes folder in each client computer each time and completely load in the library from the master. But, I have a lot of files and that will take a lot of time. Is there an easier way?
PC Windows XP

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