Please help! How to transfer my iTunes library to another computer using a USB flash drive?!!?

Question

Ok, so I'm working on transferring my entire iTunes library from one computer to my new one, using a USB flash drive. I have successfully been able to transfer songs over to the new computer, however, I noticed on the old computer that little white exclamation points in gray circles to the left of the song titles were appearing. I still transferred them over. I tested playing the songs on my new computer and they worked, however when I took the flash drive out of the computer, the songs would not play anymore and the exclamation points appeared next to each song I tried. It says something like "This song could not be used because the original file could not be found". I tried taking a second batch of songs over to the new computer and they played also, but when the flash drive was taken out, they wouldn't. Please help me!! What am I supposed to do: they won't play....those little exclamation points...?!!? Thanks

Answer 1

Transfer the music folder on the USB drive to a new folder (preferably in "My Music") on the new computer, then to iTunes from that folder.

iTunes doesn't actually move the files when you put them in it. It just makes a note of where they are in the computer. iTunes is reading your files directly from the USB drive. That's why when you remove the memory stick, it won't play them any more. If you load the file to the hard drive of the new computer then load them to iTunes from there, everything will work fine.