Itunes lost files after update

Hi. I have just updated iTunes for windows after being prompted to by a message box upon opening iTunes. (First time it has been opened in 2 weeks). After the update had been completed and I had restarted my computer I opened iTunes up to be shown the program with none of my files in. Scan for media. I clicked this and it went about scanning my computer for files. It took fifteen minutes or so. After this I went into m music library to see it was half complete. As far as I could tell all of my music was there but it had lost the information about the date added to the iTunes library, last played, number of plays and for some songs it had lost album information and artwork.
In addition to this all of my playlists have also gone.
I have not changed the files in my iTunes folder on my computer so in theory all of the information should still be there.
Does anyone know how i can get it back into iTunes again.

See Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash...
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