Hard drive crashed cannot download music from iTunes Match

Hello,
I had a fairly extensive music collection and recently i had to get a new hard drive. I didn't think it would be a big deal because i had always updated itunes Match. But iTunes match isn't showing me my library to download my music again.
Did i completely misunderstand iTunes Match? Do i have to start over?
All the music properly downloads on my iphone but not my mac.
Thanks!

I figured it out - i just had to create a new library inside of itunes.
Yay.

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