Newbie: help with accessing itunes account on another computer.

I've got itunes installed fully working on my computer.
Yesterday, I realised I could install itunes on my laptop and it automatically synced in with all my music and podcasts - great!
However, when I attempted to use itunes on my laptop today, none of the music or podcasts appeared?
I do not understand why it did this automatically yesterday and now today, there is nothing showing.
Once I logged onto my laptop yesterday, everything just showed automatically. I've made sure I've logged into itunes today etc but nothing.
PLEASE can someone help. Many thanks.

Your media is only where you put it.
If  you want it on a second computer, put it there.
Installing iTunes does not cause content to magically appear.

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