Restore playcounts and ratings from discs

I made playlists on itunes and backed up all my music to dvd disc's in this way instead of the backup to disc, because i was ignorant of it unitl i have lost everything and was reinstalling music but my playcounts and ratings will not trasfer. I can see them on the discs when i click on it in itunes they will not however transfer. There is a xml document which says ContentsDB is there a way to transfer the ratings and playcounts off this or must i start over. Thanks for your time!

I just put ipod on manually manage and then dropped songs onto ipod from playlist to restore playcounts and ratings.

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thanks for your help. But unfortunally it did not work. I will write down my setup, maybe you still could help me to solve the problem.
At home I am using a PC with the latest version of iTunes. All the music is not stored on that PC, but on a seperated server in my house. The path is //NAMEOFTHESERVER/music
On my PC I have a iTunes folder in MyDocuments with a folder artwork, iTunes libary, and iTunes Music libary.xml
Following you instructions; I copied those three files to the EHD. Then I started iTunes on my laptop (at this time not connected to the network) with the shift key and there was eveything there. But when I clicked on a mucis file in iTunes it would not start. Instead it asked me "could not be used because the original could not be found ... do you want to search for it ?"
Do you have any clue ?
Thank you very much for your help !
Best regards,
Olli

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Several people have reported problems restoring paylists and ratings after reformating a hard drive. Here is what worked for me and what did not.
I had to reformat my hard drive. Before doing that I exported my playlists from itunes to another hard drive as an xml file. I also copied the folder with all my songs to another drive. (Also of course had it backed up on DVDs.)Then I copied the itunes library files (see url http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732) to anoher drive.
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I purchased Anapod ($30.00) because its web page said (http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/):
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2. Quit iTunes
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