Restored library not showing up

I restored my itunes music from a backup to a new computer and none of the music is showing up in itunes. I made sure the path in preferences matched the file location, but still nothing but my cloud shows up. Any way to fix this?

What did you restore?
The path in Preferences > Advanced has nothing to do with iTunes acknowledging that media exists on the computer, that is merely where iTunes will store new content.
Restore the ENTIRE iTunes folder from the backup to the new computer, not just the media.

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