Reinstalling itunes after computer crash

my comuter crashed and i had to start from scratch. i reinstalled itunes and everything was fine. so there's nothing in my itunes library but all the old songs from my ipod do show up as playlists. How can i move my playlists onto the itunes library bc it is not letting me do so..
PLEASE HELP

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