[RWebb]

I want to move a very large library (300Gbytes? 400? somewhere in that range, so too large for an ipod) from my (soon to be old) Win XP computer to a new Win 7 computer. All the files are on an external HDD right now (old XP machine could not store all the muzak plus GIS files and pics) - I want to put them on the internal HDD on the Win 7 machine. The ext. drive will then be a backup.

All are from CDs I own - none have been purchased from the Apple store.

Here is the Kicker - I do NOT let Apple automatically control my computer and scatter songs all over creation regardless of what CD they were on. Instead, I spent a lot of time to figure out how to keep all songs on a given CD in the same subdir ("folder") named with the name of the CD. All CDs from a single artist are in a main subdir with the name of the artist.

there are tons of things on das interwebs on this, but most require you to have iTunes automatically control where everything goes, or they just don't say whether that is required or not

iTunes Library Mover was written to trick iTunes somehow, but I dunno how exactly.

thoughts?