Songs uploaded to iTunes from old CDs

A few things:

1. If you no longer have the CDs you legally can no longer retain the digital file that you created.
2. If you ripped your music into iTunes, it will reside wherever you kept your music library. Ripped music is not uploaded anywhere, just copied to your library.
3. If you subscribed to iTunes Match or Apple Music, then your music may have been matched and retained in the cloud.
4. In a worst case, you can recover from your backups

Your purchased items are retained in iTunes and accessible through the iTunes Store. your own music needs to be copied to a new device. Move your iTunes library to another computer - Apple Support

LME12 wrote:

I don't even understand how they can show in laptops iTunes and not another -not very tech savvy.

Apple have unhelpfully created two "iTunes":

1. 1. iTunes - the programme on your computer
   2. The iTunes Store - the online place where you can buy music that many people refer to as iTunes. The store only knows about the music that you have purchased from the store. It does not know about your music from CD or anywhere else (unless you use the Match service, which I assume you do not)

To get copies of the music that you obtained elsewhere onto another computer (and then into that computer's iTunes), you need to copy the music from the old computer to the new one.

Hi -similar to the post you replied to, I have music from CD's that was showing in iTunes along with my purchased songs, however the CD songs are no longer showing up in there (ever since I got a new phone). All I can see now is songs that I have purchased from iTunes. I do not have a subscription. My phone and laptop do not show the CD songs. I do have an old laptop that still shows them in iTunes -how do I get them back into my current iTunes and onto my phone? I don't even understand how they can show in laptops iTunes and not another -not very tech savvy.