All music, shows, films etc not showing up in itunes but still on computer

Hi all - my computer froze sometime in the night - i restarted it and now have lost my library in itunes.
It must still be somewhere on the computer i have exactly the same free HD space as before - I also back up to my time capsule.
My question is - how did this happen and how do i get everything back - playlists, etc, as quick and painlessly as possible?
All help - much appreciated
Darren,lockerbie, scotland

See in the sidebar to the right there is a 'Search Discussions' bar. I typed in 'iPod doesn't appear in iTunes' and 500 results came up. On the first page alone there were several answered questions very similar to yours, so I presume there will be quite a lot of relevant advice for you amongst those results.

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