Home sharing How do you do it?

How do you do home sharing? I just got married and moved out of my house, bought a new laptop and have no clue how to get the songs from the old computer onto the new one. I have windows 7. any help will be helpful. thank you.

what you want to see in iTunes is this (view from my MBP's iTunes seeing the library on my Mini)
if you then click on the house icon, it will change to this and the shared library will load. at that point, two buttons will appear in the lower right corner of the iTunes window, being settings and import
now you should be able to import any content from any shared library by selecting the content and clicking on import.
if the icon looks like this , home sharing has not been set up correctly.
in order for home sharing to work
(a) iTunes on all machines must be authorized for the same iTunes store account
(b) all machines must be on the same network
(c) all machines must have access to the internet.
JGG

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Itunes match is one solution. You must use the same apple ID on all computers.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819
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iTunes 10 for Mac: Use Home Sharing to import items from another iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH986
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