How to restore music library from match

My music library was stored on an external WD hard drive.  It recently crashed and I was only able to recover a portion of my music files.  I have iMatch, and I can download all my previous music to my iPhone using this service, however I do not know how or if I can download copies of the music files in order to recreate my library.  At the moment, on my Windows8 laptop, when I open iTunes, it states it cannot locate the music file, do I want to locate it.    The "cloud" symbol next to the song states there was an error uploading to the cloud.   Is there a way to recover my music files with iMatch?  and why does my iPhone not show the same "error" that the iTunes applications shows on my laptop?   I have a feeling I will have to reburn the couple hundred CDs I have.

To download more than one track at at time highlight the tracks you want to download, right-click and choose "download." However, this is not the most efficient way to restore an iTunes library. You should restore your personal data from the backups you make to an external HDD. You do make backups, don't you?

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