Music in itunes music folder but not recognized in itunes?

So a few days back my Itunes library crashed. Itunes tried to recover it, but only recovered part of my library and then told me my library was damaged. So long story short, after several different attempts to get all my songs back into Itunes, here is the crossroad that I am at now.
I have all my songs in the Itunes music folder. But for some reason, none of those songs are being recognized in Itunes when it opens up. Any advice on how to get it to recognized in Itunes instead of having an empty library? Thanks in advance for all your help, this is has been a HUGE headache to say the least.

Move the existing iTunes folder to another location while iTunes isn't running, and then drag it into the open iTunes window. iTunes does not look at the content of the iTunes music folder directly to determine what is in the library; it accesses a support file and shows the content referenced by that file. The Mac OS X version of iTunes places content added to the iTunes library into the iTunes music folder by default.
This method will not preserve playcounts and other information associated with the songs, which is stored in a support file and not with the songs.
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