What is the best way to save your itunes library?

What happens if my computor completely crashes and I lose all my files including itunes and all the music I have put on there? Is it possible to save my library to anything so that in such event I am simply able to load my itunes library onto another computor. Any Suggestions??

Hello Rebecca and welcome to discussions,
The very best way is to back it all up onto an external hardrive, using a cloning or back up Application. Using this method - if your computer does crash or fail you can just transfer all the music back to another computer.
You can also back up onto DVDs if you have a burner thats suitable.
Back up back up back up - Always back up. Its always worth doing.
Hope that helps some.
Regards
Ian

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