Got my MBP…

As far as songs are concerned with iTunes its really, REALLY easy. Just set up your iTunes on a home network for both and then go into your MPB’s iTunes and import all the songs on your home network. It took about 4-5 hours for most of my music which easily beats the days it could take to transfer everything on CD’s or a flash drive.

You don’t have to, but I just used iTunes because thats where I put my music on my previous PC for my iPhone. It is possible to transfer music over wifi but I don’t know the first thing about networking and I chose easiest way. Its really easy but if iTunes is really the devil, there are other ways to get around it.

djsubculture, I recommend copying what you have as iTunes has lost my album names, artist names twice. I use wav files it may be different if you use another format but from what I’ve been reading Aiff files are also prone to lose that information.
Also the settings like keep library organized are factors, when iTunes becomes corrupt for whatever reason, it will “keep files organized” and throw them into the “unknown album” and “unknown artist” because it doesn’t know what to do with them. I’m hardcore on wav as my file format and I’m determined to keep wav as my file of choice. I’m on my third loading of files as the “genius’s” at the genius bar aren’t competent and lost what I had left of my library
So I’m trying not checking “keep Media folder organized” under the advanced tab and checking “copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library” as this option as I understand is info about the file not the whole file. Then under the “general” tab un check “automatically retrieve track names from internet” and uncheck “check for new software automatically”. But that’s just me it’s like owning an egg you know that it won’t be long until it breaks. BOTTOM LINE BE CAREFUL! I’m no expert but want to warn you if you’re using wav let me tell you it isn’t fun loading 1500gb’s of cd’s 700gb’s takes two weeks fulltime. COPY! COPY!!!! GOOD LUCK Let me know about your experience. djrenots

OS X can read NTFS hard drives but not write to them.

I use iTunes for years now and never had any issues with it. But I do not use WAV, I use 256k mp3 or 196k/256k AAC (mostly use AAC now) that sound fine to my ears… Editing the tags quite often, rating and such. Also integrates perfectly with Serato and VDJ (I do not use Traktor, so no idea with that).
You can also tell iTunes not to touch your folders/structure and titles in its preferences. It is very easy to setup.