Music on multiple computers

We used to only have laptops.  I recently bought a PC and downloaded all my music to it and that is where all new music goes.  The new music is downloaded via the cloud but the old music is still on my laptop. Is manually deleting the old music the only way to get the music I previously downloaded off my laptop.  I'd like to just use the cloud if possible.  Forgive me for asking this if its stupid but I'm simply not a techie.
Darren

Transferring to other computers has been covered here many times, Matt, so it may be that people just didn't want to repeat themselves.
Anyway, take a look here:
iTunes 4: How to copy music between authorized computers
Though it refers to iTMS purchased music, it applies to all your tracks. Basically you just copy your entire iTunes folder to the new PB and then connect to the iTMS to authorize the new system.

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