Moving music from itunes on old pc to new pc

hi, i need a little assistance, i'm disposing of an old pc which has a lot of music downloaded from cds, cassettes and lps. i've tried using my ipod but that only allows me to move music purchased from itunes. i tried to use a flash drive, although it appeared to download into itunes, none of those moved this way will play says that file cannot be found. any help to solve this would be greatly appreciated

i tried to use a flash drive, although it appeared to download into itunes, none of those moved this way will play says that file cannot be found.
You need to organize the library from the Library section of the File menu while the flash drive is connected, or drag the song files to the internal drive and import that instance of them.
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