How do i bring my songs from my old computer to my new one

i just got a mac and i have a ton of songs on my iTunes on my old computer. however most of my songs were imported from another source. i don't want to go through the hours of work to rename all of the songs if i reload them onto my new computer. someone told me there is a way to transfer all of my songs to the new computer via the internet. however he was not sure about how to do it. can anyone explain how?

the rest of my songs are from another source
Once a song is in iTunes, it doesn't matter where it originally came from - it will transfer from one machine to another. The only problem would be where the song is a DRM iTunes Store purchase and you used up all your 5 authorisations, but this doesn't apply in your situation.

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