Matching songs on ITunes with hard disk

I went to put some songs that I already have on my ipod onto one of the kid's ipods and noticed that they've disappeared from ITunes. I checked the difference between my ipod and the ITunes list and 400 have disappeared from ITunes. When I checked the hard disk they're all still there but not appearing on ITunes. Is there an easy and quick way to bring them back or import them as a block rather than importing each song individually?

If the tracks are in your iTunes Music folder, you can use File add folder to library to add your iTunes Music folder - this should not create duplicates of tracks already in there library.
If they are in some other folder then add that folder/ those folders.

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