My computer crashed while updating my iPhone, wiped out all my songs from my phone, iTunes and hardrive. Had over 2500 songs, anyway to get these back?

I lost all my songs off my phone, iTunes and my hard drive when iTunes was updating my phone. I had over 2500 songs that I've collected over YEARS, is there anyway to get the music back? Or do I really need to start my collection all over again?

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your comptuer for just such an occasion. Use your backup copy to put everything back.
In the U.S, yo can use the new icloud beta version to retrieve itunes purchases. Open itunes store, click Purchased under Quick Links

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