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I'd been off iTunes for 6+ months and when I started it back up, I was prompted to update my iTunes with a newer version. Little did I know it would be a complete reinstall. Anyways, once the reinstall was done, none of my music is showing up in iTunes.
I searched Apple support "import library after reinstalling iTunes" and of course found noting of use. I googled and the consensus was that to import your library you just drag your music folder into the library. That was easy, but now I don't see any of the ratings that I'd given to each song. I've spend 10-20 hours rating every song on every album I have so I dang sure don't want to lose all that information. Also, all of my personal play lists are gone.
While I'm significantly annoyed that Apple didn't make this updating process a bit more painless & seemless, I'm more concerned that I might have lost all the hours I've invested in personalizing my library.
If anyone knows how I go about reimporting my ratings and playlists, I'd appreciate your assistance.
Thank you.

What exactly are you trying to do? You already have another library on the computer and wish to add items from another library? This is not easily done and meeting all the requirements you have posted. While it is possible to transfer play count I think it is one of the things that requires Applescripting knowledge.
If you are just wanting to move a library from one place to another that is possible, though still tricky because you start encountering user permissions.

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