Adding music loses previous data

A couple of months ago I added some Cds form our collection to my itunes library. During the process itunes locked up and when I restarted part of my library was gone, most of the artists A- C. I have been trying to get them back, but no luck. Was adding some new cds I bought yesterday, and during the process all music that had been in the collection before the previous issue just disapeared. I tried opening an earlier version of the libraty and all the songs disapeared off of that also. What is going on, it is about 1500 songs.

Anybody?????

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