All Tracks Now Unknown Artist - Can I Reverse This And Restore All Artists

Got a new PC one year ago. Had 350 CD's and decided to go digital with iTunes. Bought two external USB drives. One to use one for backup. Was using iTunes very happily up to one week ago. External HD one crashed. Not a problem have an EXACT COPY that was put back in the box a year ago after ripping all CD's to ext HD one and making ext HD two an EXACT COPY. Well, I plug in the ext HD two and OBVIOUSLY I had something checked wrong. iTunes in it's infinite wisdom decides that it doesn't care about my songs belonging to specific CD's, in some cases on CD per artist in others several different CD's per artist. So, now I still have all my songs BUT if I want to listen to a specific CD in either straight or random mode I CAN NOT | because ALL OF MY 4,000+ songs are all in the same folder called UNKNOWN ARTIST. I am in tears. It is nice to have the tracks but I don't know the names of most of them I listened to the CD's and knew the songs as being on a certain CD. Now all that information appears lost. AHH ! The one saving grace I may have is that I still have a copy of the original iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml THE ONES THAT WERE MADE THE SAME WEEK A YEAR AGO WHEN I FIRST RIPPED ALL MY CD'S !!! I can't re rip as I gave the CD's away since I didn't need them anymore. Might there be a way to restore the ARTIST AND CD data to each song without my having to buy all the CD's again and re-rip everything again OR having to look everything up and go into each songs info page and re-enter all the information ? PLEASE HELP ! Thanks.

You can do a factory restore and then restore from a backup after you've upgraded.  I just did this with my mom's iPad, but you had to have either an iTunes backup or iCloud backup to do the restore.  If you don't have the backup, could be that a lot of your apps and music are still available, but your settings are lost.  Your most recent 1000 pics or so would still be in photostream, so you'd want to rescue them back to your recent pictures folder.  Your mail, contacts, reminders, notes, are all already probably in icloud or another cloud provider for those services, just need to reenter your login information.  If you do secure backups, a lot of the setup is restored, without backup, you'd need to log back in to those services like twitter, facebook, etc to see your info there.

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