How do I retrieve lost album and artist info in my music library?

In trying to add an album just purchased from itunes onto my ipod, for some reason the album shows up in my library but will not sync to the ipod adn I get a sync error. After resetting the ipod numerous times, I found advice online that suggested tinkering with the "get info" and deselecting compilation settings. In doing this, I've managed to lose all song info except for the song title-- no album, artist, year, artwork, etc. Going back through Get Info and checking those boxes only results in the same list of songs, with no other info, in my library... help!??

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Without connecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to Preferences. On the Devices tab check "Prevent...from syncing automatically".
Connect your phone to your computer, right-click on the name of your phone when it appears in iTunes on the left sidebar and select Restore from Backup, choose your most recent backup to restore from.
When complete, you can go back to iTunes>Preferences>Devices and re-enable automatic syncing.
Your apps should be in your iTunes library and can be synced back to your phone. If they aren't, redownload them in iTunes for free (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519) and sync them back to your phone.

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