ITunes match and music files part company

My iTunes library became corrupted, so I have lost all the playlist and star ratings I had. I do have iTunes match, so they exist there, but not connected to my physical files. Is there a way to reconnect it with my music files on disk?
Even if this was done in batches I wouldn't mind as I'm not too bothered about all of my library, and it's probably a good time to prune, but I don't want to have match as my only usable copy, with the metadata and files becoming graudally more different.

Try posting in the iTunes Match forum - you'll get better responses there.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match

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