What happens to my purchased music if I switch to another computer?

Hi,
I want to start buying stuff on iTunes and I know that I am going to be swithching to another computer so how do I get my purchased items to the new computer. The purchased items will be stuff like tv showes, music videos, and music. Thank You.

What i am basically asking is that if itunes allowes more than 5 computers to be used for purchased music but you could only listen to the music on 5 computers at a time.
You can only authorize to an iTunes Music Store account a maximum of five computers at any one time. So five is the most you can play purchased tracks on at the same time. If you want to transfer tracks to a sixth computer and play them there, you have to first deauthorize one of the original five computers.
I hope this clears things up.

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