Transferring mp3 files to mac

I just purchased a new mac book pro and I want to move 70gb of music from my external hard drive to my new mac. The files were backed up on my external hard drive from my old windows pc that recently crashed. When I hook up the external hard drive to my mac book and transfer the files, I end up losing about 10gb of music. Once I point itunes to the new music folder on my mac, I lose another 10gb when viewing the library in itunes. My music is from a lot of different sources. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How are you doing this transfer? How are you determining you have lost 10GB? Are these truly all mp3s? Are the files not transferring or are they just not appearing in iTunes? Were these files managed by iTunes on the PC? iTunes can't play all kinds of files and won't add ones in a format it doesn't accept.

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I'm totally computer / MP3 illiterate also I am new to this whole Mp3 thing. Problem is . . . I have some Mp3 music files in my Creative zens player and I would like to burn them to some Mp3 CD's. But I was told that I have to transfer the mp3 files to my hard dri've first and then burn them to the CD's , again the problem is that I do not know how to do any of the above.
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