Mac migration not working! How to successfully migrate files?

I have recently bought a macbook retina, so I am giving my old mac (macbook pro 2011/12) to my sister, and she is giving her mac (macbook 2010) to my younger sister.
We've been trying for the past five days to migrate data from the macbook 2010 to the macbook pro 2011/12, the process always seems successful - saying it is sending files etc and how it'll take 5 hours however after the seemingly successful migration nothing has been sent. We select items to migrate (user, applications, settings, other files) click continue, and it appears to be transferring but nothing migrates at all.
We are using the wireless method, using th ethernet doesn't work and we only have one charger to share throughout the process.
Any ideas would be great - and would save me a trip to Apple!

Thanks for your comments -- regarding your question: I want to be able to listen to my music library in any number of rooms, say, the living room, kitchen, lower level family room and office/study as well as out on the patio. My entire music library is in iTunes. We do have ethernet cable running through our home, just not in every location, though that could be fixed since the lower level is currently unfinished.
There are a number of 'i' products out there - boomboxes, etc - which can be used. However, I am more interested in wired/wireless speakers in these rooms and listen that way.
I got something about AirPlay the other day; receivers that allow for streaming from any iPod or iPhone or allow them to be plugged into the receiver.
Just wanted to know if anyone has done anything with that or whether that is even the best route to take. I thought perhaps loading everything onto a hard drive connected to ethernet might be the way to go - many receivers can then connect via ethernet.
Thoughts?

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