Itunes Library purchases seem corrupted

Not really sure what happened, but I moved my iTues library from my HD to an external HD. Now it seems that the majority of my music that I purchased on iTunes seems to be corrupt, (i.e., 90% of purchased tracks seem to stop midway and freeze) No problems with my MP3's.
Anyone else have a similar problem? I've spent a few thousand replacing my CD library and haven't purchased a CD since the start of iTunes.

Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. Note that in iTunes 11 an "empty" library may show your past purchases with links to stream or download them.
In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
When you get it all working make a backup!
Should you be in the unfortunate position where you are no longer able to access your original library, or a backup of it, then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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Today when I tried to open my iTunes library it kept crashing and I figured it its because the iTunes library file is corrupt. How do I repair it? Thanks!
FYI I just installed the most recent

Hi,
In your itunes folder there is another folder called previous itunes libraries. You will be able to retieve the last library immediately before the recent up date.
Close itunes then you will need to move the iTunes Library.itl to trash. Move previous itl file to replace the one you moved to trash - you will need rename it to iTunes Library.itl.
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+The only files it can play are four songs that were imported before a massive rebuild of the library occurred the next day!+
This is probably a big clue, but I don't understand what you mean by it!

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Gomibako
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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After checking and repairing my disk I renamed the latest of the "Temp File xx.tmp" into iTunes Library.itl & iTunes Library.xml (corresponding to the file size)!
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The only remaining item from Apple's list of suggestions was to rename Keywords. Given that I have more than 100 of these, I was reluctant to manually change or delete all of them as they suggest. I started looking for special characters, and in the end it turns out that one of the Keywords contained the percent character ("%"). I deleted the character from the Keyword, quit iPhoto, and it finally updated AlbumData.xml! Aperture and iTunes now see the up-to-date iPhoto library.
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Hey gibbey531,
This article describes a simmilar issue and links to the Microsoft chkdsk article.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300554
If you havent already downloaded and installed the latest version of iTunes you can get the latest version online here.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
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HT1373 I have a MacBook Pro and newer PC. Both are authorized for my iTunes account. How do I copy or download all my library to the PC? Purchased through iTunes and loaded into my iTunes library from CDs I purchased?

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And I will second that. Storing music on your iPod and nowhere else is an extremely risky option because when (and not if) there comes a time to restore your iPod, which is a very common fix for iPod problems, then all the music would be erased. If you no longer have the music in iTunes (or any other back up), then all that music would be lost.
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