How to get old songs+videos back on iTunes after it was redownloaded?

My computer was just recently broken so all of the memory on the computer was lost so we had to restart it. So now I need to know how to get back all my old songs and videos back on iTunes.

if you purchased them from iTunes, the terms of service indicate that you can only download the files once, and urges you to make a backup of your music.. if you don't have a backup, you will either have to re-purchase them, or rip them from CDs, etc

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