Syncing my iTunes from my iMac to my MacBook AIr

So here's my problem - I have both an iMac (at home) and a Macbook Air to take on my travels. I am very fond of my music and I download, rip and organise all my music to my iMac at home.
What I would like to be able to do is synchronize all my music from my iMac to my MacBook Air. At the moment, the only way I can do this is by importing all my saved music from my external hard drive to my laptop. The problem with this is that it is very time consuming and after all the importing, if I were to add or download another song to my iMac, I won't have it on my MacBook Air unless I manually synchronize it again.
Is there a way that I can set something up where my iTunes on my iMac and MacBook Air synchronize automatically? If there is - it would be amazing.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Andy.

Update to the current iTunes on both Macs and enable "Homesharing"
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819

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