Computer crashed, cant get my non purchased back on ITunes.

My computer crashed a couple days ago so I redownloaded Itunes.
I was able to authorize my computer to get back the music I bought from Itunes, but I still have over 400 songs that I got by other means of downloading (Such as CDs and Limewire) but I can't get any of them back into my ITunes on the computer.. Any idea how to get them back, if its even possible?

emoskylady,
I can't really see how this is a Apple/iTunes related issue but if you had a copy of the items you wish to import back into iTunes I would do that by going to file>add folder to library>selecting the folde you wish to add>click on select folder.
If you're referring to obtaining the copied music/illegally downloaded items from your let's say old machine (if you've reinstalled windows) chances are you won't be able to without copying them back onto your machine the same way you did before.
Regards,
Rob

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