ITunes doesn't recognize all of my music files

I recently updated to 11.3 - My music library has always been recognized in its entirety up until this point. I am super OCD about it, everything is well organized and all my artwork is in place. For some reason it does not recognize all the music files now, including the fact that I lost some of my album artwork. I went ahead and followed steps (1-6) in re-creating my iTunes library and playlists. After doing this it still doesn't recognize all of my music files. What should be my next step so iTunes shows/sees everything as it did before the update?
Thank you!

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