ITunes purchases not showing up on new computer

I recently switched to a new computer but none of my iTunes purchases are showing up in iTunes on my new computer. I thought I'd backed up everything but I guess it didn't work so now does that mean I have to repurchase all of my songs that are purchased through iTunes?
Thank you

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In the simplest cases you copy the entire iTunes folder from <User's Music> on the source computer to <User's Music> on the target machine, install iTunes, and it "just works"TM.
If the media folder (inside the red outline) has been split out to a separate location then you can copy the library folder (outside the red outline) as before and connect the drive holding the media so that it has exactly the same path as before. If the drive appears as D: on one system and E: on the other then the library won't be able to find the media.
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