How do I transfer songs from an itunes program saved on a thumb drive to itunes on a new computer

I am scrapping my old desktop computer for a new laptop.  I copied the entire itunes file on to a thumb drive before getting rid of the old computer.  There are almost 200 songs contained in itunes file that I copied.  I want to transfer the songs in itunes file on the tumb driver to itunes on my new laptop - how can that be done?  I know it's probably very simple but I am ignorant and stuck.  Please help.

If the actual iTunes folder from the <user>/Music folder was copied to the flash drive, simply copy that to the new computer.
If the folder copied was the Program Files\iTunes folder, there is no media there.

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