HT4527 TRIED, TRIED, and TRIED! It won't work!

Question

Now I have tried and
tried and tried to transfer my iTunes library from my old computer to
my new one for over half a year.  The methods described here won't
work.  Neither does the (few) ones I found on other sites.
I would probably
have taken shorter time to download the music one more time directly
from the 300+ CDs (full format – I do not want compressed) I have
(half with classic music not available at iTunes store, Spotify or
elsewhere), than trying...
Some part of some
instructions here (and otherwise) does not seem to be up to date, or
details is wrong regarding Windows 8.1.  Other just don't work.  I
have also tried many other ways that my brain can come up with.  But
always only one of the CD is found by iTunes.
Maybe Apple want one
to have all in the cloud, but a few 100s of Giggs would probably cost
me a zillion €$£s a month – so it's not an option.  Or that
things like this only can work if one has a Mac (although I have
consider buying a Mac, since Windows 8 is horrible, but I have
programs that only exists in versions that runs under Windows).
Unfortunately this
also means that I can not sync my iPod and iPad with the new computer
(since everything on the units will be deleted when synced to a new
computer).  And this also prevents me to update to new iOS 8.  (I
have all data except music and larger sized pictures in clouds –
although this is sometimes a problem summertime at my summerhouse in
a low populated area with very bad internet possibilities.)
So if someone
actually knows how to do this (from hard drive with files from iTune
version half year ago on XP, to latest iTunes on Windows 8.1 –
PLEACE let me know!
Apple should really
think about this.  There should just be a simple import function.
Copyright issues might exist, but it will be no difference than the
methods described here (if they work).  [And in Sweden we actually
pay a special tax to copyright holders on storing devices (computers,
hard drives, mobile phones, etc) to compensate for this.]
[Also: there are
issues with this page.  When typing, it is not possible to go back in
the text and edit.  Also I had to type this one more time when the
web page just “died”.  All of IE (standard – not metro) just
locks itself and have to be aborted with ctrl+alt+del]

Answer 1

Hi there beryl,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you’re seeing an “error 7” alert message when launching iTunes. Take a look at the article linked below, it provides more information about that alert and troubleshooting steps that’ll generally resolve the issue.
iTunes for Windows: "Error 7" message when opening iTunes - Apple Support
Cheers,
-Jason