How do I get all my songs back into iTunes?

I had over 1500 songs in my iTunes library. They were visible on my iPhone, iPad, and iPod AND my PC. All my songs are intact on my devices but I only have 181 songs on my PC. When I try to sync my devices, I get the message that all my library on the idevice will be lost and all I will have is 181 songs in the iTunes library on my PC. How in the world do I fix this? It took a long time to add these songs and I sure don't want to start all over again by adding them again. Thanks in advance!!

The sort fields should generally be empty unless you've putting in custom values to sort solo artists by their surnames. You can apply common changes to thousands of tracks at once, just don't apply the wrong change because there is no undo.
It is a good idea to backup before undertaking large scale changes. See this backup tip for a suggested approach.
tt2
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