Bought a new computer - how do I access my old library and play list on another drive?

I bought a new comuter - Windows & and had my Itunes library on a USB Hard drive. How to I get ITunes to open that library with all the songs being available in Music? Any ideas would be helpful.

You are going to want to plug in the USB in your new computer, then drag the folder containing your music into the iTunes window. This should update your iTunes with those songs.
To make a copy of the songs, so that you no longer need your USB, go into iTunes > File > Preferences > then last tab, there should be a checkbox that says "copy file to iTunes music folder when adding to library".
Hope that helps.
BF

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