My whole library of music is re-arranged, rearranged....

so i install the newest version of itunes, and it goes ahead and puts all my music in folders per artists name, i had them arranged the way i wanted them, ie 1 hit wonders, live from the radio, etc, and now i cant find songs without some major headache....is there a way to fix this??
thanks---Brian

Updated iTunes should have used same settings you had before. What you are describing is due to the default settings for iTunes. There is a checkbox in preferences, checked by default, that says something like let iTunes manage library. The setting causes iTunes to order files by artist>album>track inside iTunes music folder. There will also be folders for podcasts, tv shows, movies.
There is nothing built in to iTunes to reverse this. You have to manually rearrange your files. If you have iTunes set to manage library then if you do move the files iTunes will not be able to find them and will place ! before track names.

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