How to I transfer my itunes account without losing my music?

I have kept my itunes account on an old PC running XP and just got the new iphone and have to transfer my intunes account onto a new computer.  How do I transfer the account without losing all my music?

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    Note if you have iOS devices and haven't moved your contacts and calendar items across then you should create one dummy entry of each in your new profile and iTunes should  merge the existing data from the device.
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