ITunes music AND Info to a new computer

Evening all and Merry Christmas,
So here is my situation, I have an seven year old Cicero that has packed it in. I placed all of my music on an external drive so that I could free up hard drive space on my computer and continued to consolidate my tunes there. This proved beneficial when my computer died.
Problem....Now I have a new computer and I would like the new iTunes program find my music files on the external drive as well as all of the information that goes with it. Over the years I have really added a lot of detail to the library of tunes (i.e. ratings, comments, album artwork, BPM, number of times played, skipped, etc...). I would also like the the new iTunes to continue to consolidate any new files to this same hard drive location.
I have searched the Net, watched videos, scanned forums and tried to get the music AND information from the external drive into the new iTunes, to no avail. It is really frustrating because I can usually solve these kind of issues out on my own, but this one has stumped me. I can get the music, but it is all blank.
I would like to not have to copy/move the music to the new computer, but if this has to happen so be it. Looking forward to some answers that could be understood by an 11 year old.
Thanks for your time.
B. Carmichael

Problem....Now I have a new computer and I would like the new iTunes program find my music files on the external drive as well as all of the information that goes with it.
All of the info is in the iTunes library file, which the default location is in \Music\iTunes\ folder on your C: drive.
If you do not have that. you cannot get the info.

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