Anything I bought on my phone automatically gets added to my library when I sync

There has to be a way to sign into Itunes on your new computer though, and it might bring up all of the music you have already

I'm not sure though

I've activated the new laptop, it transfered "purchases" - apps & 2 movies but the songs are all downloads ...

oooohhhhh

as in not iTunes downloads?

I have some of those. I'm not sure that there's any way to transfer them

if your old laptop is still alive, you could put the files on a flashdrive and transfer them that way

I was hoping that it wouldn't be that labour intensive. Le Sigh.

NaturalBornKnitter: it is unfortunately *that* labour intensive - if you have a big enough usb drive/external hard drive,

you can just go into iTunes, select all, and hit Copy from there, then paste onto the other drive

Le Deeper Sigh. Ah well, wtf else did I have to do?