Where has my music library gone after latest update?

Hi - recently updated to the lates version of iTunes and it's lost the library content apart from one album and a few tracks I had downloaded as MP3 files then imported. The songs are still all there if you go into the windows files but iTunes isn't picking them up anymore. Can anyone help? Do I just need to re-import?
Thanks in advance
Steve

See Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash.
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