My old computer crashed, I have Itunes on a WD passport drive. How do I put Itune on my new computer?

My old computer crashed, I have itunes backedup on a WD passport drive. I found a music folder on that drive and move it to my desktop on a new computer runing windows 8. I downloaded Itunes software to the new computer. How do I put the the folder with my itunes music into Itunes?

Restore the songs from a backup, or use these instructions to redownload them through the iCloud if doing so is free in your country.
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