How can i make itunes on my laptop my home library without deleting all of my songs?

I have already tried home sharing and clicking on manually manage music and videos but when i click that it tries to delete all of my music and i want to keep my music i just want to use my laptop instead of my other computer.

See this migrate iTunes library post.
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