Transferring from old mac to new...

I've just recently upgraded from a Power Mac G5 single pre-intel to a shiny new iMac, and I'm wondering how to get all of my songs from my old computer to the new one.
I've had a look at Migration Assistant, but it seems to only allow me to transfer huge sections of my old files and preferences and such at a time (Library, Users, Applications, etc). There's a lot of buggy old files and corrupted documents that I really don't want to move to my new computer, so I'm trying to sort out how to move all of my music and perhaps a few other files over without having to use the Migration Assistant.
Any tips?

You can use an ipod to do this. Here is an article to help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329
You cause a hard drive or dvd,cd as well. Hopefully this will help:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
You can also drag your entire itunes folder to an external drive and copy to new computer.

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