Loading music into iTunes wirelessly on network

Hello, I have a long question, but if someone could help me, that would be awesome.
Okay, I have a brand new imac laptop with the latest software on it. I just got it for a christmas present.
I was loading my music onto the new computer's itunes library from the older one. I was doing this wirelessly between the two computers.
I thought that was great, I could do that. Now today, I wanted to do the same thing, and I went back to it, and now I don't have the same controls
that I had the night before that allowed me to do that. I'm wondering what happened? I was using "home sharing" I believe it was.
I lost the ability to take from the previous itunes library I had and transfer the music to the new computer. I had a button on the bottom screen of itunes i was highlighting the music I wanted to put on the new computer, and pressing the button on the bottom that allowed me to do that. Now that button isn't there and I was just wondering how to get it back. Another thing I thought was weird was It was showing me what songs I didn't download yet to the new computer, and now it's not doing that either. If someone knows exactly how to help me, I would really appreciate that. Thanks.

Ungulate, 
Double-check that both of the mentioned options are not checked. 
Find a folder of new song files that you want to add to iTunes, and make sure that you know its location. 
Use the iTunes command File > Add Folder to Library, and when the dialog comes up, point it to the folder containing the songs.
You should end up with an iTunes library entry for each song, and the song files themselves sitting exactly where they started.
Pls try this and report back.
The only exception where this will not work is if your files start in WMA format, in which case iTunes will automatically convert them and put them converted versions where it pleases.  But if you are starting with MP3s, this procedure will work.

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