How do I transfer my libary from my old pc to my new one and my ipod use it

I am changing pc's and as a back up had burned and backed up all of my songs on 4 dvds. One dvd was just songs I purchased from itunes, it copied fine to my new pc. Now the rest will not copy at all and in fact it shows that there is no songs at all on the dvd. I know this worked in the past when I reformated my hard drive on my old pc and used the same disks. Problem is I have over 9,000 songs adn dont want to spend forever putting my cds in and my old pc no longer burn dvds. Is this something ituns has done? How do I place my library onto my new pc so my ipod will accept the songs?? I tried a memory stick and it will move the songs but not put them on my ipod. I just want my music back!
hp   Windows XP  

SOunds like you got a couple of problems here. First if the DVD's don't copy then something may be wrong with the DVDs - or the new pc isn't reading those DVDs. Even though it worked on your old pc something may have gone wrong after the last time you copied those DVDs. THis has nothing to do with iTunes. From what I understand DVDs can be complicated with those plus and minuses and stuff. Many times one DVD works fine on one system but another system does not even recognize it. They're too many different kinds of dvds.
Second, after you copy the songs to your new pc, you have to add those files to your library. If you are installing iTunes for the first time on the new pc you need to tell iTunes that your library is the folder where you have copied the songs from your DVDs. But if you didn't do that then the next thing is to use Add Folder to Library from the menu in iTunes.
But remember that when you use this option iTunes will copy the music for example if you have already copied say 5GB of music to your hard drive in Folder A. Then you say add folder A to library, iTunes will copy Folder A to your library so you need an extra 5GB of space on your hard drive. ONce you see your music in the iTunes main page you're all set.

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