Music has vanished from itunes! Help!

I just logged into my itunes to discover that about two thirds of my music has gone! Including stuff i uploaded personally from cds. Can anyone please help me find it or do i have to start from scratch? I'm pretty hopeless with computers, please help!

tony.... me too! only it happened about 2 weeks ago....I got a new computer. Now my itunes Library only shows albums I have bought from Itunes Store. It used to list my entire library song by song. Now I have album covers and no song list. I bought a new album from Itunes since I have had the new computer, and plugged in my Ipod to transfer it to the Ipod. It didn't accept the new album, but luckily it also did not erase all the songs on my Ipod.I am afraid to plug in the Ipod now as it might eat all my existing songs. Most of them were from CD's. It takes hours to download all those CD, I hate to do it again.

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