Libraries and playlists disappeared

Excuse me in advance for my poor English
Today I opened iTunes as I usually do, and I couldn't see anything about my songs in the library and my plalist. It's all disappearex except the only album that is in the iTunes folder (everything else is situated on an external hard disk).
What's happen? What can I do now? Is it really all lost?
I hope that I shouldn't rebuild my library, in that case I think it's probably that my new iPod will fly out of my windows :-D

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