ITunes library won't display any songs?

Recently I got my Hard Drive replaced at the Apple store and I was left with zero data on the drive. When I got home I started up my Mac and did the whole registration and asked it to restore from my Time Machine back-up. It all went smoothly until I opened iTunes and all that showed up was just a blank space where my music should be. The alternating blue and white lines weren't even there, it was just blank. I tried dragging and dropping my iTunes folder to the iTunes icon and the songs started playing, but still nothing is being displayed. How can I fix this?

I am having the same problem. iTunes won't display any of the songs in my library - it's just a blank screen. The songs are there because they play. I can listen to them, I just cannot see them.

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