Is there a way to recover my iTunes playlists?

I bought a new MacBook Pro a few months back and I have backups of my old MacBook Pro, and I was wondering if there is any way I can recover my old playlists from iTunes.  I had about 50 playlists that I used on my old iTunes, and now I have 1 that took me a long time to re-create.  I also lost all of my play counts and was wondering about those too.  I have 9,000 plus songs that I listened to at least 5 times each, now I am at 0 on over half of these songs.  I know it's no big deal, but it was kind of cool.   Any help would be appreciated.
Erik Jurado

Hello Erik,
You can simply copy the 4 files higlighted in the picture below from your backup to the iTunes folder (in yourusername/Music).
You will retrieve your ratings and everything related to your playlists. I did this 2 weeks ago and it worked.

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