New laptop set up with new itunes account, need to change it.

I purchased a new macbook pro for my daughter.  Up to now we shared an itunes account, the associate helping us convinced us to set up her new laptop with a new itunes account.  The associate made it seem like it would be easy to transfer the music from one account to another.  I'm now finding out that is not the case.  Is there a way to change how her computer is set up?  I'm thinking if we set up my itunes account on her computer she will be able to access her music.

Locate the song files in the Finder, move them to the USB drive, take the USB drive to the new computer, drag the files to the internal drive, and from there into the open iTunes application window.
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