Best way to migrate itunes from pc

I tried migartion assistant to migrate Itunes songs. The songs transfered toMacintosh/users/shared/files from "e"/itunes/music/music , but nothing shows up in the itunes library. Any ideas?

The iTunes library should have been transferred to your iTunes Library on your Mac, which would normally be located in your Macintosh/users/yourusername/Music/iTunes folder.
However it appears the files were copied instead to Macintosh/users/shared/files, which iTunes would not look for unless you specifically point iTunes to that location.  Because your folder naming is not the typical iTunes folder, I suspect you may have just gotten the files and not the iTunes folder.
If nothing shows up in iTunes on your Mac, the first thing I would try is this:
In iTunes, do File > Add To Library, navigate to your Macintosh/users/shared/files folder and if all your songs are there, select one or more of the folders and then iTunes should start importing them into your iTunes Library on your Mac.  After you are done importing you can (should) delete the files in Macintosh/users/shared/files because at that point they would just be unused duplicates of what is now in your iTunes Library.

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