Transferring Itunes from old to new computer

I have been trying to export all of my itune songs from an old PC to a new laptop. I'm only getting a portion of the songs transferred. When uploading from a separate harddrive its says that "songs cannot be found". So in a file that I might have 50 songs, I only get 2-3 transferred. I have quite a few songs that I uploaded from CD's and these are what are not being transferred. Is there a way of transferring the individual files with all the music therein, rather than putting everything in the "all" file. Some step by step instructions would help as what I have found on the internet still does not transfer all my songs.

Just checking. Have you done the steps listed here?
About Authorization and Deauthorization.

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hey!
so i tried following the tutorial for transferring music from my old computer to my new computer (both of them PC's) and i got as far as the "copy itunes folder into ipod then connect to new computer"
now the next step is to take that itunes folder outta my ipod folder and place it into "my music" and then delete the itunes folder from my ipod so i free up my memory again.
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Hi cynthia I know what your going through the same exact thing happened to me (I feel your pain and stress). You can use Windows Explorer to delete the folder it should be obsvisoly labeled I belive as "Itunes" and if you acidentally delete your music its already on your new computer anyway so all you would have to plug it in and it would sync...

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1. I just downloaded 7 new tunes from iTunes store (on the laptop) but they aren't appearing on either PC or laptop when I search my library on them. Why ?
2. I have over 4000 tunes in my library but only about half are selected (i.e. checked) for sync'ing onto my iPod. But when I transferred the entire library to my laptop, everything is checked. I haven't connected my iPod to the lap top because I don't want everything transferred to it. Is there a way to sync the laptop with the PC so that the checked content is identical on both machines ?
Once I get this squared away, I intend to deauthorize the old PC. Please help.
Thanks !

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Ok, I've determined that the the songs that I transferred from my PC were actually part of my shared library. There's always only been one computer in the house so sharing was never an issue. As I indicated above, I'm going to deactivate my old PC once I get all this settled. So maybe a better description of my issue is this:
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Having purchased a new MacBook I am attempting to move the library of music and images from my 5th Generation 30gb iPod onto the new computer.
I have followed the instructions given here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
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It doesn't sound right for the files on my PC, I am quite OCD about having file names I can find and making sure the MP3 tags are good. ; )
If that's how it was on your old PC, it does sound right -
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Assign your portable drive a letter way down in the alphabet like M: for music.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844
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Bear with me folks. I’ve messed this up so many times in the past I’ve amazed myself.
I purchased a new PC.
I copied my music into the iTunes music library.
My primary concern is ensuring I carry my playlist over to the new PC.
I don’t care about album art or videos/. Just the music and playlist.
With that in mind…I’m not sure about the next steps….Please confirm.
Should I now: Copy from my old library the “iTunes Music Database File” & iTunes Music Library”?
My concerns:
My old PC is executing ver. 7.0, and the new one is ver 7.2. Do I need to sync the versions?
Also, my old PC pointed to my music on an external drive. However, because my mew PC has a bigger hard drive I simply placed it in iTunes music library.
If I copy those two files from the old PC to the new one, won’t itunes think that I still have my music pointing to an external device. I would think that information is contained in one of those two files I will be copying from the old PC to the new one. (Confusing?….I hope not).
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392
iTunes: How to backup and restore playlists
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Then loaded the entire iTunes folder from the hard Drive to the existing iTunes directory in the new Laptop.
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Hello, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Below you will find articles to assist you today
Step 1: Download and install iTunes on Vista. Please keep in mind Vista has 2 possible versions depending if you are running 32 bit or 64 bit of Vista. You can find this out by right click on Computer and selecting properties.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ (32 bit)
http://support.apple.com/downloads/iTunes8_0_2_for_Windows_64bit (64 bit)
Step 2: Authorize new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
Step 3: Transfer iTunes purchases from iPod into iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
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