Moving Windows iTunes Library to Apple Music on MacBook

I recently bought a MacBook, my first time using Apple. My old computer is a Windows 10 laptop. I have been moving files onto the new laptop, however have run into a major hurdle with transferring music.

On my Windows machine, all of my audio files are contained within the 'My Music' folder. As I am selective about what is in my music library, a smaller portion of this folder is contained within my iTunes library - 10,000 tracks to be precise, in iTunes 12. The iTunes library includes meticulously put together playlists and metadata, created over a decade. When moving files to my MacBook, I migrated the entire Windows 'My Music' folder to the 'user/___/Music' folder on my MacBook, to ensure that all of my audio files were transferred using the same folder structure.

Unfortunately, I have come to the disappointing realisation that it's not possible to transfer my music library intact to the Apple Music app... the iTunes library .itl + .xml files do not seem to work with Apple Music, and as mentioned, I do not want to add the entire contents of my 'users/___/Music' folder into Apple Music (not only would this mean I have to re-build all of my playlists & metadata from scratch, I would also have to manually delete thousands of tracks which I do not want in Apple Music).

One (failed) workaround I tried is as follows:

• Consolidate iTunes library on Windows computer by copying the files
• Move contents to a hard drive, transfer to Macbook
• Import library to Apple Music
• Delete location of files
• In Apple Music preferences, reedirect Apple Music to 'users/___/Music' folder, where the files already exist with the same folder structure.
• If the above step does not work, relocate files using Apple Music's 'find missing files' function

When attempting this, I found out that Apple Music's relocate function is absolutely pitiful... It can only find one file at a time, even when I choose the option to use one file's location to find the other files. I found even Pioneer's Rekordbox software has far superior 'relocate missing files' functionality!

I have spent many hours thinking about this and how to get my music library transferred, which I think is a reasonable expectation to have. My question: how can I transfer my iTunes library intact, to the Music app on my MacBook? If anyone has useful advice, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it.

NOTE 1: I do not want all of the files in my 'user/___/Music' folder to be added to the Apple Music app, only the select 10,000 that are present in the iTunes library on the Windows computer.

NOTE 2: I do not want to use Apple's proprietary 'Music/Music/Media' folder for storing the files. My files must be kept in the 'user/___/Music' folder.