I have lost my itunes library

My old laptop died on me and i lost everything from itunes library can anyone think of a way to get my itunes library back on my new laptop and my new download of itunes as its all on my iphone. i can recover my purchases but not the thousands of tracks that i had originally put on itunes library from my old cd's.

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion.  Use your backup copy to put  everything back.

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