Missing iTunes 9 songs after transfer with SL Migration Assistant

I have a backup drive where I stored 82+ gigs of music, all imported from cd. They were saved using various versions of iTunes as AAC's. I transferred the Music folder from the external drive to a new iMac via OS 10.6.2 Migration Assistant.
I noticed this morning that some music was missing from the iTunes library that were still contained in my iPod... which I didn't sync! Whole artist folders are missing, some songs of other artists are gone. I lost 3+ gigs of music. I checked the new iTunes music folders, these artists and songs are not present.
Unfortunately, I didn't notice the difference in total storage when I opened iTunes after transfer, 8000+ songs, over 6 years of saving. And wiped the external drive and set it up as a clone backup for the new iMac.
The only factor I'm seeing is that every artist I've identified as being gone was a fairly recent save under iTunes 9. I've been doing a lot of saving over the last 3 months.
Anyone else losing MA transferred music with iTunes 9 and/or Snow Leopard?

Hello there ronadrew,
It sounds like you 2 libraries of content you want to move over to your new computer. As far as your iTunes library is concerned, you can certainly use File Sharing as an option if you like but you have to modify folder permissions and access to do that. This article should help you do that, named:
OS X Yosemite: Share your files with other Mac users
If these computers are both connected to the network via Wi-Fi, it may be faster to copy the iTunes library to an external drive, then copy the library over to another computer using this article:
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer
As far as your Calibre library you may be able to use one of the above methods to copy your library over, but I would check with the support and/or documentation available from the developer for the best way to go about that.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
Sterling

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