My entire music library is gone, how can i recover it

my kids got ipods and used my computer to get music and when I went to find my library it was gone. How can I get it back? I still have most of it but not all on my phone but I can't transfer to my computer from my phone. Help I have over 10 years of stuff in my libarary.

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer. Use your backup copy to put everything back.

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