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How to transfer data from external hard drive?

I have an external hard drive (Drobo) that has about a terabyte and a half of music all loaded onto the hard drive through burning cds from Apple Mac Mini. Unfortunately, the mac mini suffered a catastrophic crash and I cannot retrieve data from it. I want to buy a new mac mini and bring the library of song titles and artists from the hard drive, but not the music data files (too large for the mac mini internal hard drive. Anyway I can accomplish this?
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If the hard drive in the existing Mac Mini still works, as the others have indicated it can be removed from that computer, connected to the new computer, and the library files copied from it. This inexpensive adapter kit, which I have used a number of times with fine results, would be a good way of connecting the drive to a USB port on the new computer.

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