Migration to new machine failed.

I have purchased a new iMac and the iTunes migration from the old to the new is what I would consider a failure.
I have attempted to move all my songs from the old to the new one using several methods and all have failed, I am defining failure as not all songs appearing. There are 5700 songs on the old machine (included 370 purchased). First I tried the migration tool, it only got half and none of the purchased. Then I used Time Machine, that didn't work and now I've tried several times by copying the iTunes folder to a hard drive. The last has been the most successful but the most songs it's been able to get are about 3668 and only 86 of the songs I've purchased.
What am I missing?

I got it fixed, here's how I did it.
1. On the new machine I deleted everything in the iTunes folder to clear all so that I wouldn't have duplicates of any kind.
2. Copied (again) from the portable HD my old iTunes folder from the other computer.
3. Opened iTunes then I went to File/Add to Library and highlighted the current iTunes folder and selected "Choose".
This imported all the music without duplication along with all the artwork. The last step was to "Authorized" the new computer. All is well.
Thanks to those that tried to help.

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