Import library using home sharing

I can my other computers library, however i am not getting the 'settings' button on the bottom right to allow me to import everything onto my new computer...HELLLPPPPPP
Thank you.

To transfer your songs, don't use Home Sharing. It uses your network to transfer the songs, and it will be so slow (days or weeks to transfer 82 GB).
Instead, you can copy the whole iTunes library to an external disk and transfer it to your new iMac > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751 This is much faster and useful, because you will transfer all your iTunes data from your old Mac, not only songs

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