How do I transfer my music from my old PC to my new laptop using my iPhone?

I recently purchased a new laptop and would like to transfer all my songs from my PC to this laptop. however i heard that you could do this using the iPhone which all the music is on. my itunes on my laptop registers all the songs, it just wont let me transfer them to my library. any suggestions?

Hello, As long as all the music content came from the iTunes WiFi Store, or iTunes Store on the PC/Mac you can transfer it on up to 5 total machines.
Step 1: Launch itunes - Click Store in itunes menu bar - click authorize computer - and login into the apple ID you used to purchase all your content. You should get a success message
Step 2: Connect iPhone, Cancel anything syncing alerts. Especially cancel if it says it has to erase and sync as you do not want to erase your media content yet.
Step 3. Now click File in iTunes menu bar - Then click transfer purchases from "iPhone name"
This will scan iPhone. And copy content back into iTunes that came from iTunes WiFi Store or iTunes Store.
Once this is done you can setup normal music media sync. Keep in mind it will still need to erase and sync but since content is in iTunes now it will come back.
Please keep in mind any content from CDs is a 1 way sync. And you will need the CDs to put music back into iTunes.
How to back up your media in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1382
About iTunes Store authorization and deauthorization
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420

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