Why are my artist folder located in my Itunes Media folder, not Music Folder?

I recently got a new computer and moved my itunes library to this new one. Everything is working fine, but itunes just reorganized my entire library. As of a couple of days ago all my artist folders were under itunes media\music, but now all the artist folders are just in the itunes\itunes media folder. The artist folders are mixed among my mobile application and home video and podcast folders. There is still an itunes media\music folder and there are a couple of artist folders remaining in my music folder but they're all empty. My preference has 'music\itunes\itunes media' as my Media Folder location under preferences and 'keep media folder organized' and copy files to itunes media folder when adding to library' are both checkmarked. Why did it move all my artist folders out of music and into my root folder and how can I get it to move all the artst folders back to the itunes media\music folder?

nevermind fixed it File>Library>reorganize

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