Transfer iTunes Music to other computers?

Question

You used to be able to backup your iTunes Library, and also copy individual music tracts (up to five times I think), to install on other computers in the family. I don't see a way to do that now. Can you only share music through iCloud?
Thanks

Answer 1

Uh, there's lots and lots and lots of ways to do it now, even more than before.
iTunes: How to share music and video - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2688 - about Music Sharing and Home Sharing
Home Sharing Support page - http://www.apple.com/support/homesharing/
iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4620
Understanding Home Sharing - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819
Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing - http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201085
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your iTunes library to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527 - Follow some of the steps here, except most of this applies to transferring to a new computer not an external drive so you need to ignore or change some steps, but first follow some of the steps in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201625 about consolidating but ignore some of it because it really concentrates on backing up a library which is best done as part of a whole computer backup. In all honesty these documents are truly bewildering and can leave you in a hopeless jumble if you are trying to do is move a library and use it on a different drive.  -- if you really want to do something like this ask us and we can provide simpler instructions.
Copy files to a flash drive. Put into other computer and drag to iTunes.