Lost music after moving iTunes to nas

Ok I've been a Pratt. This I know. But can anyone help me?
I bought a buffalo NAS drive and set it up as my network storage
I copied the contents of my computer hard drive to it
Deleted my music, along with document files, from my laptop (yes I said I'd been a Pratt)
Thinking that all my music is on my nas I then synced my iPhone 4s and promptly lost all my music from my phone
I can see that my music is on my NAS but after ages of me prattling about I seem to have many fragmented iTunes libraries
Today I get a shiny new laptop so it's time to sort thing out.
Is there any way I can easily find all the music on my NAS and set it up on the new laptop without ageing a further 10 years?

Holding "Shift" Button on iTunes start will let you setup a new library. You can then choose your library file on your nas ... and everything should be fine again .... if you moved the whole iTunes folder to your nas.
Otherwise, you can delete your songs in iTunes without moving them to thrash and then add them again from your nas ... be aware that iTunes does not update the tags of your music files when changing them in iTunes. This information is only stored in your library. So if you changed e.g. album names or genres you have to do it again when adding deleting and adding from a new drive as you clean your library by doing so.

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