Lost my playlists and something else :o(

I have a MacBook Pro, with the HD partitioned into "Mac HD" and "Audio". I have a rather large music library on "Audio" that is linked to my Serato library.
Today, I noticed that some of my playlists were missing.
I found this online: iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists - Apple Support and followed the instructions. I have now gone from well over 22000 songs, to just over 5000 tracks.
I noticed there are 2 iTunes libraries on my mac. One on "Mac HD" drive which appears to be about 30 gb, and another on the "Audio" drive (where I have set iTunes as the default drive and folder for my music).
The playlists I was looking for were not restored with the above process. However.... When I do a Spotlight search, I can find the name of the playlist I'm missing on a file called music.txt. How do I get all this back to normal?

I should add, when I started the process from the link above, iTunes started dumping audio onto my "Mac HD" drive... something I didn't want to do. I only have about 20gb free space there now

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