Library randomly disappeared?

When I opened iTunes 7 this afternoon, my library showed up as blank. All my music appears to still be on the computer. Is there any way to retrieve my library?

Open iTunes, go to File> Add Folder to Library. Find the location of your iTunes music folder (normally in My Music folder) open it, and choose the folder called iTunes Music and click OK. If you open this folder all the artists will be inside. This only works if you chose to let iTunes organize your library. If you didn't you will have to add each folder to the libary seperately. Hope this helps

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