Can't access songs on external hard drive

I've transferred itunes from one PC to an external hard drive and connected to the new PC and selected the iTunes folder but I can't see the music, apps etc.  Can anyone help??

What steps did you follow from where? Do you have a copy of the entire iTunes folder on the external drive, including most importantly a file called iTunes Library.itl or do you just have the media folder? Do you still have the working library on the original computer in case you need to execute the transfer again?
My suggested transfer process can be found here.
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