Thank you so much for all of the assistance, that worked!
I totally panicked, I did see the music was still there but I have many playlists that I didn't want to lose!
Luckily I had not added any new play lists in a while so it didn't take much to add the new purchases to it. Oddly there is a difference of one song between my iphone and itunes......just an ocd thing!
It would be cool if there was a way to compare playlists!
Usually I do a manual backup and actually copy the entire itunes folder onto to two different hard drives, unfortunately I slacked, but luckily I found more recent ones on the time machine drive. I need to get more diligent about backing up and a new TM drive that can stay connected all of the time.
Previously when I’ve "entered time machine" to retrieve a file when I'd "exit" it would rearrange everything on my desktop....and it was not related to what it looked like at the time I went back to.
This time I was able to avoid that mess by just navigating (clicking) into the contents of the drive