Importing My Library onto my laptop

Hi and many thanks in advance for reading/replying.
Last night I used Homesharing to transfer my extensive (90G) music collection from my parents PC to my Macbook. However during the process my computer ran out of battery and so not all the music was transferred. Is there any way I can check what music is found in both libraries and exclude that from another import since I obviously do not wish to re-import the whole 90Gb library and go through it by hand deleting duplicates...
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