Why in My Music, iTunes Library doesn't match music on my computer

I have 277 albums in my iTunes Library and only 242 albums on my computer. Why is this? And how do I get them to sync?

Drag the contents of the folder with all those albums to the Automatically Add To iTunes folder.

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    _Skull wrote:
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