All my song info.... gone

I had went in and changed all my song information to have the right album titles, and play in the correct order. When I downloaded the newer version of iTunes it earased all of the information I put in. That was a ton of work that I dont feel like doing again, just curious why it happened, if it will happen if I download an update in the future, or could I recover that information.
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