Restoring backup discs from old computer

Our old computer had died but luckily i had my i tunes library backed up. i have downloaded the new i tunes on my new laptop. When i put in one of the discs it recognises it as a back up disc, starts copying into my library but keeps stopping and won't go any further - e.g stops at 118 of 135.
i don't know if anyone knows why this is.
Please help
Thanks

You should be able to accomplish what you want. First, open a Finder window and locate the "other" sparsebundle, from the now thrown away Mac. Double mouse click to mount it (or open it). Once is it mounted, you can either click the Time Machine icon in the upper right of your screen (and then press the 'option' key) or right mouse click (or hold 'control' while clicking) on the icon in your dock. The option you want is 'browse other time machine disks'. In the new window you should have the option to browse the other backup and retrieve the file you're looking for.

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Sorry, wasn't to clear on my description (and wrong terminology)
The old computer was an OSX machine running iPhoto and I had a library of photos as well as a series of albums associated with that library.
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