ITunes did not acknowledge all of the CDs on my computer

I have a new laptop running Windows 8. I moved all my music files to the new computer. On the old one they were in WMP (Windows Media Player format). On new laptop installed iTunes and did a a search for music. It only acknowledged 12 of the 39 CDs. Said protected files would have to be converted. When I clicked yes to do that, got the message that it couldn't be done without hard copy of CD. I don't have any of them, put them all on the computer to save space and reduce clutter. Am I out of luck? I'm wanting to use an iPod Classic that a friend sold to me. Thanks

So the files are on your computer in WMA format, originally from a music CD, but they have some kind of DRM (copy protection).  That's odd.  If you had ripped a music CD using iTunes, the resulting song files would NOT have any type of DRM.  Why would Windows Media Player put DRM on songs files from a music CD?
iTunes cannot play WMA files at all, but the Window version of iTunes can convert WMA files to MP3 or AAC format.  However, if the files have DRM, iTunes will not be able to convert them.  That is probably why iTunes wants the origiinal CDs, so that it can rip the songs into the iTune library directly.
So, unless you know of a "Windows way" to remove the DRM, you won't be able to use those protected WMA files with iTunes.

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