Library can't find 75% of my music!

I opened iTunes yesterday only to find that half my music couldn't be located. I usually keep a lot of it in my Downloads folder, and this had worked fine. Do I have to manually move all of the missing music (about 2000 songs) to the iTunes folder? I tried doing that, but when I added full albums, it still couldn't find them. Would I still have to manually locate the files for iTunes? Is there a faster way for either of these?
I also tried consolidating my library, but barely any of the 2000 songs were moved.
Message was edited by: Armitando

Hi Armitando
To reconnect both the lost tracks and album artwork to iTunes:
Go to *iTunes > File > Add to Library* and navigate to your *User Folder > Music iTunes > iTunes Music* then click Open.
To prevent the problem, do not move or change any file's inside of your User > Music > iTunes Folder.
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