Syncing problems from transfer of old library to new...

I would like itunes music from my old laptop to play on my new laptop.
They seem to be showing fine in my library but are not syncing onto my ipod Nano because 'they could not be found' (100+) and 'the audio format is not supported.' (17+) Any advice?
I have done this fine before so have no idea what the problem is. I have deleted the library and tried to start again but the same error messages occur.
Thank you!

Yeh I copied the entire Itunes folder, it has these items inside:
Album Artwork
Itunes library Extras.itdb
Itunes Library genius.itdb
Itunes Library.itl
Itunes Media
itunes Music Library.xml
previous itunes libraries.
Just tried launching with option key held down, selected the Itunes file and again it hasn't loaded all the music into Itunes ? ? ?

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