I lost my music after 4-5 years

i've lost all of my music and have no idea how to get back 500-600 songs. is there a way to contact apple support for iTunes? this is terrible and i don't know what to do.

Im suffering the same fate. Last night I synced my iPod with my Vista Laptop to let it recharge only to find the next day all my music was gone, except 2 songs. I figured there may have been an error during the sync and that all my music would still be in iTunes, however, there are no songs there either.
I really dont want to have to purchase all my music again.

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I updated my iphone just last week after 11 months of not updating. I have just noticed that since the update I have lost music that I have purchased from itunes. I don't know how much music is missing, however it seems to be quite a bit of recently purchased music. How can I retrieve this music? When I go onto iTunes and look at songs I know I have purchased it says "buy now" not "install" or "download" so it looks like it will charge me again of I try. I won't be impressed at all if I have to purchase all the music I'm missing again. Not only that, I don't know how much music is missing.
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So the problem i got was that i decided to reinstall my windows by making a fresh reinstallation and so i made sure that i backed everything up even my itunes library onto a flash drive.
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Yesterday, i plugged in my iPhone to my computer to add some new music that I purchased (though bandcamp, not iTunes, added manually to iTunes after download). My iPhone is setup to backup automatically to iCloud and set to sync automatically when connected. I have "Manually manage music and videos" checked as my music collection is too big to fit on my iPhone and I don't want my entire collection on there anyways. As per usual, I dragged the new albums from my music collection to the iPhone. After that was completed, I left for work, only to notice that I only had the new albums that I just added, plus a few random albums, which mostly look like they were purchased from iTunes. In total, I had 96 tracks of music on my iPhone, when I previously had over 6000. Today, I plugged my iPhone back into my computer, In the iPhone summary page, the indicator bar at the bottom still says have 45gb of music on my iPhone, and when I click on the Music tab under "On My Device" all the songs and playlists are there, not greyed out, with not sync icon beside them or exclamation mark. They look as normal as if there were on my iPhone. When I go to the settings on my iPhone, it indicates that i only have those 96 tracks. I deleted all the music from my iPhone, but I can't sync what iTunes says it already on my iPhone. ***?
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6888216
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