Audio Files 140gb, Itunes 60gb

Hi - I recently got a new Mac, when looking at the "About my PC, I see 140gb of Audio files", whereas my Itunes folder shows 60gb of music. I somehow seem to have more than duplicated my music storage. I have a folder from a historic windows PC called my music, and my Itunes folder. Can anybody suggest a way for me to synchronise these folders, so that I am only left with my Itunes folder? Am I ok to just delete the "My Music" folder? Apologies for the basic questions, but am just learning to get to grips with the operating system of the MAC
Thanks for any help
Dan

If the files are already encoded in MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, WAV or AIFF formats, they don't even need to be converted. iTunes for Windows should already be able to play them.

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