Why has my entire music library been destroyed with latest upgrade to my ipad.  Albums out of sequence make no sense!

WWhy has my entire music collection been thrown into disarray which I cannot resolve with the latest ipad upgrade?
a Broadway album that starts with Act Two jumps to the prelude and then hops all over the place is crap!  Expensive too from iTunes.  Now I cannot listen to my music,  I am not happy.

You have the remnants of an old school library layout that has been upgraded to the new layout.
See this thread for details...
Check under File > Library > Organize Library that Rearrange files in the folder iTunes Media is greyed out. If not tick the box and click OK.
Next go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced and turn off the Keep iTunes Media folder organized option. Click OK, then turn that option back on again.
The artist folders directly inside iTunes Media are orphaned as are any files they contain. There are probably a bunch of hidden artwork files created by Windows Media Player but if you want to recover any media files in case there are things that you have lost push all the Artist folders (from this level only!) into Automatically Add to iTunes. Once iTunes has finished digesting the folders anything it can't add to the library will be placed in Not Added. You can work out what to do with what's left.
tt2

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