Once your iTunes library is recreated, you can use the library and the songs it contains normally.
Note: Recreating your iTunes library is a part of troubleshooting. Therefore, you should attempt to recreate the library only if the current library gets corrupted, and/or its configuration is completely messed up.
Steps below will help you recreate your iTunes library:-
- Log on to your Windows computer. (E.g. Windows 7 in this demonstration.)
- From the desktop window, click the Start button.
- From the Start menu that appears, click Music.
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- Once the Music library window opens up, double-click the iTunes folder.
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- In the iTunes window, move the iTunes Music Library.xml file to a different location (E.g. Desktop in this demonstration) either by dragging and dropping the file, or using the Windows’ Cut and Paste feature.
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- Once this is done, right-click the iTunes Library.itl file from the iTunes folder.
- From the displayed context menu, click Delete.
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- On the Delete File confirmation box, click Yes to provide your consent to continue.
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- After deleting the file, close the opened window, and go to the desktop screen.
- From the available icons, double-click iTunes to launch the application.
- On the opened iTunes window, from the menu bar, click the File menu from the top-left corner.
Note: If the menu bar is not available, click the Options icon (icon with the black and white blocks) from the top-left corner of the screen, and from the displayed options, click Show Menu Bar.
- From the displayed menu, go to Library, and click Import Playlist from the submenu that appears.
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- From the Import window, browse, locate, and select the iTunes Music Library.xml file that you exported in step 5.
- Finally click Open to recreate your iTunes music library.

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