Finding Playlist files

Hi,
I recently had to buy a new hard drive. Before I did I backed up my entire hard drive - I also have my itunes library backed up on a seperate drive. I imported my old library files to restore my playlists but they are incomplete (I think they are a previous save - since that I have altered them). My Itunes on my old dead hard drive had my full playlists on there. Are the playlists stored with the Itunes files or the Music files?
Cheers,
Ian.

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Playlists are recored in the *iTunes Library.itl* and *iTunes (Music) Library.xml* files. Ideally you'd restore the backup of your .itl file and the other assocatied files that normally exist in the top level iTunes folder. If you've lost these then you'll probably have to rebuild your playlists from scratch. If you have an iPod with these playlists on then I believe there are some iPod to PC transfer tools that can rebuild playlists in iTunes but I can't say I've ever tested any out.
tt2

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