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Using iMusic to Merge iTunes Library Effortlessly. The next method that we’re going to look at allows you to easily merge iTunes library without too much hassle on your Mac or Windows. This is the best method available and on top of that, iMusic – Music Manager & Download is a program which has a lot more to offer than just this. Use Copy or Backup Software. The easiest way to transfer an iTunes library is to use software to. In the Choose iTunes Library dialog, click Choose Library and select the iTunes folder on your external drive. This can be enough for iTunes to properly associate itself with the copied library. 3 Click 'Export to' 'Export to iTunes Library' to move the data stored on iTunes library from old computer to new computer. Copy iTunes library to new computer with external drive. The second way of switching iTunes library to new computer will adopt an external drive, commonly, one USB storage drive is enough.

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Or you can use something like this to copy all the tag info:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=copytinforackstotracks
or even this one:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=rememberthesetags
both let you select your current tracks and then paste that info to the new tracks. I use this to get info from the ITMS and paste it onto my mp3s so it can find the album artwork.
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Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

Those scripts only copy the ID3 tags. They don't copy the extra info that iTunes knows about the songs that are not stored in the file itself, specifically, 'Date Added', 'Play Count', and 'Rating'.
I believe there's no way via AppleScript to alter the 'Date Added' of a track.

Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

The play count can be updated using the Copy Tag Info script.

Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

Or, if the songs don't have the exact same title/album (as kirkmc suggests), you can also replace by file name. This isn't as automatic as that method, but is more so that the original hint (no dialogs to find each one).
1. rip the new copies. Move the files from your library to your desktop (in a new folder to reduce clutter).
2. rename them to exactly what the old songs are (copy-n-paste helps). It doesn't matter if the format is different and the file extensions are different.
3. drag them into the old folder and replace the old copies. Even though iTunes is open, the files won't be in use so the Finder will let you do this.
4. correct file extensions, if encoded to a new format.
5. play the songs and just fast-forward skip through each one to update the iTunes info.
6. if you don't like the new titles, correct them.

Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

Just an FYI - I used to replace my songs within iTunes similar to the method described above and it caused very erratic behavior with playback on iPods and sometimes iTunes - where it would play a song and then at some point within the file, forward to 2 seconds before the end of the file and freeze the playback. It took me a few months to link the erratic behavior specifically to the songs that I had replaced in iTunes. I gathered it had something to do with iTunes not properly syncing or updating its metadata to notify all parties involved that there was a new file that needed to be synced.
Hope this helps someone if they experience strange behavior!

Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats
Copy Tag Info Tracks to Tracks *does* transfer Play Count and Rating (and Song Name, Artist, Album, Album Artist, Composer, Grouping, Last Played Date, Artwork, Genre, Comments, and Year). But you are correct: iTunes manages Date Added and there is no way to manipulate that with AppleScript.

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Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

The most important thing that this keeps is the playlist information, which none of the other solutions do.
I've done this hint countless times (just figured it was something everyone did) and can confirm that it works well--just a bit slow. I've worked on automating this before, but never been able to find a satisfactory solution. If Apple made the location property of the track read-write (instead of read-only) this would be dead simple.

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Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

You don't even need to do that.
If the songs on the CD have the same name/artist/album/genre/etc as what is already in your iTunes library, iTunes will ask if you want to replace the songs in your library with the newly imported ones. It keeps all the album artwork and playcounts and so on too.

Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

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Replace Songs in iTunes with Higher Quality Versions Keeping Stats

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This method will keep the old stats of the old song, yes, however, it will keep the old gain. For those of us who use 'Sound Check' the ReplayGain like function. I've noticed that these volumes can be all over the place, which defeats the purpose of Sound Check. I have not found a way to manually initiate 'Sound Check' and Fade-In/Fade-Out points. Any suggestions?