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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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czarivey
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First of all you should verify that hard drive from your crashed apple is still OK; Than you'll probably need something like SATA-USB adapter to connect screwd-up drive externally.
At this point you're facing manual transfer of album arts one by one which is huge PIA. For that I'd go to freelance.com and find/hire one who will put together for you a couple of VB-script(perhaps) lines to transfer them automatically.
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