Music is missing in iTunes. HELP!

I came to work yesterday, opened iTunes and all of my music is gone. I've rebooted, searched everywhere and it's nowhere to be found. HELP!!

Go on your computer
Click start
Click My computer, or Computer
Click your C:\ Drive
Click Users
Click "Your User Name"
Click Music
Click iTunes
Then Navigate through the files in there to see if you can find your music.
If you do locate your music.
Open iTunes>Click File> Add>Folder to library>Locate the same folder where you found your music.
Click Choose>and check your iTunes library your music should be back

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I know that this isn't exactly a new issue, but I have scanned the discussions and nothing that I have read seems to help. My son has a nano (4th gen). He isn't sure but he thinks that maybe he disconnected his ipod before a sync was complete or something because all the music was deleted from it. He's not positive that's what happened but that's his best guess. No problem -- thought we'd just pull songs over again to it from our library. However, when we try to do this, on about 50% of the songs he wants (all were purchased, not from CDs) there are exclamation points next to the songs when we try to drag them and it says the file can't be found. I have looked in the itunes library on our computer and while I can find the libraries, they also don't have these specific songs we are looking for. I've tried to search and I just come up empty. Is there anything we can do beside buy the songs again? There are about 16 songs or so. A couple of them I have on my itouch. Could I somehow transfer the couple of songs to the computer? And would that work to get them to his ipod? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

+It appeared to do that as there are now duplicates in our library, but when I tried to drag the new song to the ipod, that darn exclamation appeared again and the song wouldn't transfer.+
It's easy to get rid of the duplicates. iTunes menu > View > View Options
Check the Date Added box, then click on the column name Date Added twice. Eveything you added to day will be at the top.
Then click File > Show Duplicates and only delte the one from today.
Do NOT delete both duplicates, or the song will be entirely gone.
As for dragging songs to the ipod, it has to be set for "manually manage music" for that to work. I don't understand about the exclamation point showing up again, unless you were dragging the 'old' reference that got deleted. Tyr dragging over the copy from today.

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The issue lies with the info in each song/album. Since iTunes match tries to match your library with songs from their own library, the info in each album needs to show the specified artist and song names so iTunes Match can recognize it. (see this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17055402#17055402)
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Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud too.
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HT201272 iTunes music downloads missing contents

Hey guys,
really hoping someone out there can help me.I recently downloaded an album, but I'm missing a number of songs. I can't download them again because it says it has been purchased.
When they were downloading I was having issues. iTunes kept freezing up and saying "processing", but nothing would happen for quite a while. So I restarted my computer, and now the songs that were processing are the ones that are missing.
Is there any way I can get them back without it costing any more money?

Depending upon what country that you are in (music can't be re-downloaded in all countries) then do they show under the Purchased link under Quicklinks on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page on your computer's iTunes for redownloading ? If music shows there, but those tracks on that album don't have the cloud symbol against them for redownloading, then are those tracks listed in the Music part of your iTunes library (i.e. where you would click on them to play them) ? If they are still listed there (iTunes will be seeing them and assuming that you have the full track and that there is no need to redownload them) then try deleting them from there and they should then get the cloud symbol in Purchased for redownloading.
If you aren't in a country where you can re-download music then try the 'report a problem' page to contact iTunes Support : http://reportaproblem.apple.com
If the 'report a problem' link doesn't work then you can try contacting iTunes support via this page : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/- click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Purchases, Billing & Redemption

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