iTunes sync between two Macs

Newby here: must be a current situation... I have an old iMac from 2004 still purring along and I use it only for iTunes, fuelled an amp for home.  There are about 20 GB of songs.  My 'new' baby is an iMac 2012 also with about 20 GB music.  A large part of the songs are common to both, but many are not.  I would like to sync the two so that both machines have all the songs.  Is not its too difficult for me.  Please tell me it's easy!  That would be a backup for my music.  Otherwise, I need to find all the songs on the new Mac that aren't on the former and copy it on the old iMac for use through the amp.  Please people if you can help.

No, there is no easy way, especially with one of the Mac's so old and do not have all the characteristics of a new iTunes such as sharing at home or iCloud.

The only way to merge them is to copy the folder Media from one computer to another (using a flash drive if necessary), add files to iTunes, then spend a day treaty duplicates.

It would help if you provided more details about the computers, their versions of the operating system, versions of iTunes, if they are connected in a network.  The only way I can think of making some work is if once you have support all in one place, you run separate iTunes library files that correspond to the versions different iTunes you are using, but they point to the media in a central location.  However, they will always have different playlists and adding or removing media must be made by the two libraries individually.

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