Track start times lost when exporting playlists

I have about 1500 iTunes birdsong tracks I am transferring to a new computer. Each has its own start time which I manually edited (took 6+ hours!), track by track, to eliminate a guy's voice at the beginning of each track. Now when I export the playlist and transfer the files to a new computer, all of the track info (artist, name, album grouping, Composer, Comments, etc.) shows up, but the start times (as well as 'volume adjustment' and 'skip when shuffling') are lost. It appears this information is not encoded in the .xml resulting from the playlist export. Does anyone know how I can mass export (and subsequently mass import) these file data so as to avoid the 6+ hours work redoing the track start times by hand?
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larus10 wrote:
I have about 1500 iTunes birdsong tracks I am transferring to a new computer. ..... It appears this information is not encoded in the .xml resulting from the playlist export.
When you transfer a library to a new computer, do not try to do anything with the XML file.
Rather, copy the entire iTunes folder to the new computer. (If your library is not already consolidated, consolidate it first). This procedure brings over all the content as well as all the library data.

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