How to transfer music files from one computer to another

Hello,
I have home sharing enabled on both my mac and pc. I can't figure out for the life of me how to actually transfer
songs from my mac to my pc with home sharing enabled. How do you do this?
Step by step process please. I have the latest versions of Itunes installed on both machines.

Hello clissmann,
For the step by step of transfer music over using Home Sharing, take a look at the first article below. If you are stuck or having issues, then you may want to use another alternative like an external hard drive to copy that information over. The second article can help you out with that if you go that route.
iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht4620
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4527
Regards,
-Norm G. 

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