Songs not showing up in iTunes

Recently many of my songs haven't been showing up in itunes. It happened randomly and decreased my library by about 3000 songs out of 10000 in no particular pattern (like date added, alphabetical order, downloaded songs, file format, etc.) except the songs are missing in groups of albums.
I tried reinstalling itunes and deleting the songs from itunes and reimporting them with no luck. I didn't change any options in the preferences tab, and I checked my actual music folder and it's all still there, but some songs just don't show up in itunes. What can I do to resolve this?

Maybe your "iTunes Music Library.xml" file got corrupted?? Try searching this file for some of the songs in question and see if they're in there at all and if so if there's anything funky about them.
Next step:
Try uninstalling iTunes and verifying that "iTunes Music Library.xml" is REMOVED and then reinstall and drag all your music into it again. I believe this will remove any playlists as well, so you should back them up...not quite sure how to do that.

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