WMP library suddenly empty?

I have a hp pavilion dv6-2100 notebook, just under 2 years old.
About 3 days ago, I opened Windows Media Player and received the following message (this is roughly translated from Danish): "There are no elements in this library right now. The player is searching for digital media in the background. Click here to add elements to the library now."
I cannot add elements to the library, however. I don't know what triggered this, I had listened to music previously that day on WMP and I didn't have any problems.
I've restarted the computer several times since then, I've scanned the computer twice and looked around the web to see if anyone else had similar problems, but could find nothing.
Does anyone know what I can do about this? (Before you say "iTunes", iTunes has never worked on this laptop)

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