How do I get my music back,to a new computer

I recently replaced my hard drive. All my music is on my external hard drive. How do I load the music back to iTunes?

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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    1). Connect your iPod to your new computer. If it is set to sync automatically you'll get a message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod.
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    Sync them back from your comptuer using iTunes.
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    Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities

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    See also Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
    B-rock

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    Seems like the iTunes app has lost most of my music. How can I get my music back?

    A new version shouldn't do that but it does seem to happen on occasion to a few unlucky ones.  Restore your library from the backup you make of your computer before you install new software.  If you don't have one, this is a learning experience.
    Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
    iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
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    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61658
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  • HT4972 after downloading ios5.1.1 how do you get your music back on your ipod?

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    Sync it from your iTunes library
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    Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
    If it was not in your iTunes library and you updated via iTunes you will have to get the music again sinve synced media like apps and music are not include din the iPod backup that iTunes makes.

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    It won't show on iCloud because iCloud is associated with a specific Apple ID.  The music should be on your computer's iTunes and a Sync will put it on the iPad (be sure to configure iTunes properly).  If you want to get it from iCloud, I think that you need to temporarily change your ID back to the old one but I've never done that myself.

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    my computer broke down and now i bought a new  Mac,  how can i get my music back from iTunes??

    Unless you subscribe to iTunes Match , Apple does not keep a backup of your iTunes library.  Even then it is not the library as it exists on your computer, but some version of the media, and only media files, not playlists.  Even then not all media are definitely available since anything removed from the iTunes Store since you purchased it is not available for re-download.
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    I was updating my software on my iphone 4 and it crashed so it recovered it and i restored it from its back up. However I have lost all my music and my apps but not my pictures. How can i get my music back. I did not remove my phone from the computer until it had said it had finsihed.

    Media and apps are not part of the backup. They need to be re-synced from your itunes library or re-downloaded from the store.

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    I made a mistake by pressing autofill on my hp windows laptop and all of my music was gone from itunes and my iphone 5s, how can i get my music back onto my iphone 5s?

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