Transfering music to my new macbook...??

Hello,
I know that there is some way to find an old discussion to answer my question, but I couldnt figure out how to do that. So here it goes: I just bought a new macbook (white 13") and I am leaving for college soon and I want to transfer all my music onto my macbook from my old imac G5. I was wondering what the fastest way to do this is? Any help would be great...
-Gus

Hello,
The easiest way to transfer your music to your MacBook would be through FireWire Target Disk Mode. What this does is turn your iMac into an extrernal hard disk for the MacBook. Thus, you can drag and drop your music to your MacBook from the iMac. Read this article to find out how to use this feature:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583 .
Post back with any questions that you have. Hope this helps.
-MRCUR
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