How do I find original music library?

Okay so we have a few macs in the house and we can't seem to find the original itunes library for my husband on any device? We are upgrading computer and we don't want to lose any of his music, however whenever we go to itunes on all of our other devised it displays all of his library under shared...Is there anyway to locate where it is being shared from? Or can we copy the library even though it's shared?

Backup drive?
Subscribe to iTunes Match?
If neither of the above and you don't have the CD and can't find your tracks on the computer then they you're stuck.  A file recovery utility will cost $100, plus another $100 for an external drive to which to resue the files, and may not even work.  You can buy a lot of CDs for $200.

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